Shakira Focusing On Music & Her Sons As She Navigates Gerard Piqué Split

Shakira shocked her fans erstwhile she revealed successful June that she and Gerard Piqué, 35 — who is the begetter of her 2 sons, Sasha, 7, and Milan, 9 — decided to divided aft 11 years together. Following a summertime of soundlessness astir their breakup, the 45-year-old superstar vocalist opened up in a caller interrogation with Elle magazine, calling the ending of their fairytale romance “the astir difficult, darkest hours of my life.” Luckily, clip does heal each wounds, arsenic a person of Shakira’s told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that she’s healing by “focusing connected her aboriginal and her kids” to get her done the hard time.

“Everyone’s amazed astatine by however good Shakira is holding up, considering everything she’s going through, the root told us. “No 1 would blasted her if she wanted to enactment everything connected clasp but that’s conscionable not her style, her enactment ethic is adjacent level. She says that staying engaged is the champion happening for her, she doesn’t privation to discarded clip crying implicit the past. She’s determined not to fto them spot her sad, close present everything she does is astir protecting them and making this modulation arsenic casual arsenic possible.”

In the interview, Shakira besides revealed that she’s been moving connected caller music, telling the outlet that she is “thrilled” astir sharing it with her fans soon. She added that the process of creating a caller medium has been “therapeutic” for her arsenic well. A 2nd root told HollywoodLife that Shakira is focused connected the affirmative aspects of her beingness and not the antagonistic ones. “Right now, Shakira is trying to absorption connected the positivity successful her beingness which includes her boys and she’s recovered comfortableness successful getting successful the workplace and making euphony again. That’s her passion.”

So, wherefore did Shakira yet determine to speech astir her painful separation from Gerard? The 2nd root added, “Shakira has ever maintained a comparatively backstage idiosyncratic life, but with everything going connected successful the quality astir her, she decided it was yet clip to talk her ain information alternatively than person others presume what she is going through. This precise nationalist divided would beryllium a batch for anyone to woody with, but she’s handling things the champion she knows how.”

Shakira besides spoke successful the interrogation astir however hard the divided has been connected her 2 sons. The insider told america that Shakira is taking the precocious roadworthy erstwhile it comes to letting the boys spot their begetter arsenic much, and arsenic often, arsenic possible. “Although their custody statement has not been resolved yet, Shakira has welcomed Gerard to walk arsenic overmuch clip with the kids arsenic imaginable during the holidays,” they said. “They don’t person a ceremonial custody statement successful place, but Shakira would ne'er support her kids from their begetter due to the fact that she knows however important that narration is.”

HollywoodLife reached retired to reps for Shakira, who person not yet commented.