announced her split from the Barcelona footballer, 35, in June, after 11 years together.The former couple, who share children Milan and Sasha together, shared the news in a joint statement, requesting ‘privacy’ for their children.In a wide-ranging new interview, the 45-year-old discussed what led to their ‘very difficult’ decision to separate, vowing that she put ‘everything’ into the romance.‘Sometimes I just feel like this is all a bad dream and that I’m going to wake up at some point.
But no, it’s real. And what’s also real is the disappointment to see something as sacred and as special as I thought was the relationship I had with my kids’ father and see that turned into something vulgarized and cheapened by the media,’ she began to Elle Magazine.‘I think that those details are somehow too private to share, at least at this very moment – everything is so raw and new.
I can only say that I put everything I had into this relationship and my family.’Shakira explained that, prior to starting a family with the athlete, she had a ‘nomadic life’, which changed after she became pregnant for the first time.Reflecting on their relationship, the Wherever, Whenever star said that she put her own career on the backburner to be a support system for her loved ones, a decision she made when her son started school, at the end of 2014.‘One of the two had to make that effort and that sacrifice.
And I did it. I put my career in second gear and I came to Spain, to support him so he could play football and win titles. And it was a sacrifice of love.
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