Gerard Piqué and Clara Chia Marti.Photo: Gerard Piqué/Instagram
Gerard Piquéis continuing his Instagram official status withgirlfriend Clara Chia Marti.
Theformer pro soccer player, 36, shared a selfie of him cozying up to his new boo, 24, onsocial media over the weekend.
Andunlike last time, he posted with a caption: “🧡.”
The father of two andShakira’s ex first made things official with Marti in an Instagram snap back in January, just seven months after he and the music superstar, 46,announced their breakupin a joint statement in June 2022.
Marti and Piqué, however, have been linked since they were spotted together at a music festival in August 2022, and it remains unclear exactly how or when their relationship began.
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Still, despite laying relatively low, the couple made headlines after Shakiraseemingly shaded their relationshipin two songs at the top of the year, “BZRP Music Session #53” and “TQG.”
Shakira and Piqué firstconfirmed their relationshipin March 2011 after meeting each other on the set of her music video for “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa).” At the time of their split announcement last year, the pair — who share two sons,Milan, 10, andSasha, 8 — wrote that they “ask for privacy at this moment for the well-being of our children, who are our maximum priority.”
“Thank you in advance for your understanding and respect,” the statement read.
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Gerard Piqué and Shakira in 2014.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Back in March, Piqué told Spanish newspaperEl Paisthat he’s “very happy” following his breakup. “The day I die, I will look back and hope I have always done what I wanted,” Piqué told the outlet, adding that he wants “to be faithful to” himself regarding major life decisions.
“The problem is how people perceive things or how the press packages it,” he toldEl Pais. “I’m still doing what I want. I’m not gonna waste money on cleaning up my image.”
In anApril 1 interviewwith journalistGerardRomero,Piquéadded that the public response to the breakup had been difficult on him. “With the theme that’s gone on in this past year, my ex, she’s Latino Americana, and you have no idea what I’ve received on social media from her fans. Barbarities. And I don’t care about any of it. Truly, zero. Because I don’t know them. They are people who have no lives. You’re never going to meet them. They are like robots,” he said, translated to English.
He also explained that his approach was to not let online opinions bother him, saying, “What you can’t control, don’t give it attention.”
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Accepting Billboard’s first Woman of the Year award at theinaugural Latin Women in Music galaearlier this month, Shakira opened up about her year of “seismic change” and realizing women are " stronger than we think, braver than we believed, more independent than we were taught to be."
“It’s been a year where I’ve realized we women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, more independent than we were taught to be,” she said. “Because what woman hasn’t at some time in her life forgotten herself because she’s seeking the attention and love of someone else? It happened to me, more than once.”
source: people.com
