Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” and neither does she about the realities of being a mother.
The singer is mom to two boys, Milan, 8, and Sasha, 6, whom she shares with partner and Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué.
While Shakira has been well adjusted now to the responsibilities of motherhood, back in the early stages of being a new parent she got real about the challenges she faced.
“I’m one of those tiger moms, who is all the time looking for help and information online and researching and reading. It’s not easy to be a mother,” the singer said back in 2015 during the Fisher Price‘s Happy Factor Panel, which focused on the challenges of early motherhood.
“Maybe the biggest change is that I think about the future more, what the world will be like for him when he grows up. But when it comes to living, it’s all about the present,” Shakira told PEOPLE in 2014 about becoming a mom for the first time. “I’m finally able to really savor all of those little moments that, in the early days of my career, I was too busy thinking about the next thing to just stop, take it all in, and enjoy.”
