Milan Piqué, Shakira and Sasha Piqué.Photo:Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Milan Pique, Shakira and Sasha Pique at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards

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The family was all smiles on the red carpet, with the two boys embracing their mother, who is up for fourMoon Person nominations. (In addition to receiving the video vanguard award, the Grammy winner is also up for artist of the year, best Latin for both “Acróstico” and both best Latin and best collaboration for “TQG,” her song with Karol G.)

Milan Piqué, Shakira and Sasha Piqué.Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Milan Pique, Shakira and Sasha Pique at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards held at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey.

While the singer wore a glamorous gold gown, her sons rocked matching outfits that complimented her look. Both boys wore head to two black-and-yellow sweat suits, paired with sneakers in the same print to match.

Shakira shares her two kids with exGerard Piqué. Although she split from the former footballer in June 2022, the star said she is doing all that she can to “conceal” the situation from her kids. “I try to do it and to protect them, because that’s my number one mission in life,” she toldELLE.

She’s also been adamant about giving her sons as normal of a life as possible. “I can’t deny they can’t escape the reality that I’m a public person, as well as their dad,” Shakira toldET Canadain 2021. “But we try to provide as much normalcy as we can, and live really as very simple people.”

OnInstagramin April, the singer opened up aboutmoving from Barcelona, her family’s previous homebase, to Miami. TheColombian singerpenned a farewell to Barcelona, her home of the last eight years, in the caption, written in Spanish.

“I settled in Barcelona togive my sons stability, the same that we are now looking for in another corner of the world besides family, friends and the sea. Today we started a new chapter in thesearch for happiness,” she wrote, as translated to English.

TheMonotonía singerwent on to thank “everyone who surfed many waves with me in Barcelona, the city where I learned that without a doubt, friendship is longer than love.”

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“Thank you to everyone there who encouraged me, dried my tears, inspired me and made me grow,” she added. “Thank you to the Spanish public who alwayswrapped me up with careand loyalty. For you all this is just a see you later and, like my father always said, we’ll see you in the curves!”

source: people.com