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Shakira turns 40, see her through the years, Alain BENAINOUS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images, Theo Wargo/WireImage for Clear Channel Entertainment, Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images. Colombian singer Shakira, right, speaks as President Barack Obama looks on during an event to hand over land titles to representatives of the Afro-Colombian community at the Plaza de San Pedro in Cartagena, Colombia, on April 15, 2012.

22. You realize that the most important things in life are the people you love and everything else blurs in comparison. Shakira's most famous song, "Hips Don't Lie" is one of the best-selling singles of the 21st century, and its music video has over 403 million views on YouTube. Lo on stage prove that motherhood and age and society's "rules" for you can't stop you.

To me, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Aniston, and Brad Pitt (whom I would go straight for at any consenting adult age) aren’t hot in spite of how old they are; they’re hot because of how old they are. You don't have to even be a fan of sequins or music or dancing — but no one can watch those two women, those two mothers, absolutely own it on stage and not feel impressed. From Bamako, Mali.

Colombian singer Shakira is celebrating her 40th birthday today.

Start talking to her completely free at Badoo Colombian singer Shakira attends the general meeting of the XVIII Ibero American Summit in San Salvador, on Oct. 31, 2008. The pop singer rose to prominence in the 2000s, with hit albums "Laundry Service" and "Oral Fixation.". How Jennifer Aniston Looks So Damn Good at 50 Years Old, J.Lo Brought A Stripper Pole To The Super Bowl And The Internet Lost It, The Creative Directors Behind Jennifer Lopez’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Revealed Its Hidden Messages, Just A Bunch Of Tweets From Super Bowl Viewers Who Can't Believe That J.Lo Is 50. Singer Shakira, honorary chair of the Global Campaign for Education Action Week, was on hand for a news conference to raise awareness for the bipartisan Education for All Act of 2007. You learn quickly that life is short, and that worrying about what your neighbors think is absolutely pointless. There's a confidence that comes with age — a "give no Fs" kind of attitude. I got a Uniqlo mask. Shakira's sixth studio album, Fijación Oral, Volumen Uno, was released in June 2005. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known professionally as Shakira, released her debut album "Magia" in June 1991 when she was 13 years old but it was the 2001 release of her first English-language single "Whenever, Wherever" that launched her worldwide success.

It is rumored that the singer is working on an 11th studio album. Lo and Shakira proved it. There is so much privilege in the 30-under-30 influencers set. See more ideas about Shakira hair, Shakira, Hair. Shakira, singer, songwriter and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Childrens Fund, attends a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

Jennifer Aniston attends the SAG Awards on Jan. 19. Shannon Keating is a senior culture writer and editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.

Jennifer Lopez performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show at Hard Rock Stadium on February in Miami.

Of course, the most obvious explanation for how these rich celebrities look so good is: They’re rich. And where we keep shimmying on stage. Colombian singer Shakira smiles after receiving an award, during the 'Crystal Awards' ceremony on the eve of to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. Eric Ting is a reporter for SFGATE who covers politics, the coronavirus pandemic and sports. It's where we keep going and growing. Utilizamos cookies, próprios e de terceiros, que o reconhecem e identificam como um usuário único, para garantir a melhor experiência de navegação, personalizar conteúdo e anúncios, e melhorar o desempenho do nosso site e serviços.

Caso não concorde com o uso cookies dessa forma, você deverá ajustar as configurações de seu navegador ou deixar de acessar o nosso site e serviços. I've never thought that my life would be over when I hit 40, and I never really put an age limit on anything I wanted to do.

That isn’t to say, though, that ageism doesn’t run rampant in queer circles, especially in the gay male world; actor Sam Pancake, on a recent episode of the podcast Lovett or Leave It, delivered a passionate and eloquent speech about a young gay comedian who told him he’d rather be dead than Pancake’s age.

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Columbian-born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoli was an established South American superstar until she entered the English language market with 2001's Laundry Service album. There's so much sheer dumb luck and money wrapped up there. Colombian singer Shakira performs on the stage during a concert in Rotterdam on Dec. 1, 2010.

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As author and former BuzzFeed senior editor Rachel Wilkerson Miller tweeted after the smash success of the halftime show, “perhaps we should let women over the age of 40 do things more often.”, While straight culture might have a ways to go, queer culture has long recognized the particular beauty and value of older women. Para saber mais sobre nossa política de cookies, acesse link. And those numbers, when attached to your average, normal, everyday woman who doesn't have a closet full of Grammys, mean absolutely nothing. Shakira was enlisted to put together the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. When Lopez went viral last September for wearing the same green Versace dress that, back in 2000, inspired the creation of Google Images — to close the designer’s spring 2020 show — it was because of those recycled assumptions: She is older, and yet still hot! Last night, in a glorious ode to Latinidad, the women breezed through their respective greatest hits with casual feats of athletic prowess: Shakira’s hips still don’t lie, and J.Lo dazzled with pole moves she’d picked up on the set of her 2019 hit, Hustlers. Shakira and J.Lo at the halftime show were exhibiting the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of work and talent — the music, the dance moves, the intoxicating confidence — as well as showing off their gorgeous and unthinkably expensive heads of hair.

Singer Shakira performs on stage during "40 Principales Awards" 2011 at Palacio de los Deportes on Dec. 9, 2011, in Madrid, Spain. An expert outdoorsman reveals his ultralight camping essentials, How to celebrate Halloween with your kids responsibly, This 3-Pack of TP-Link smart plugs is just $20.99. Both gay men and women, in fact, are far more likely to have relationships with 5-, 10-, and 20-year age differences than straight people are.

If so many people are consistently surprised that millionaires manage to look “good for their age” — whatever that even means — what does that say about our culture’s attitudes about ordinary people in their fifties and sixties? I’m dating a 53-year-old, and not only is she, in my completely biased opinion, a total smokeshow — she’s all the more alluring to me because she carries with her the poise and self-possession of someone who knows who she is, what she wants, and what it means to live in her truth. But, in general, freed from the confines of heteronormativity, queer people tend to write our own rules when it comes to what’s considered beautiful. Everybody tweeting in shock and amazement that a 50-year-old woman could still look really fucking good must have missed this news cycle the first time around, when Lopez’s age (and apparently paradoxical beauty) became a focal point of the coverage around her role in Hustlers. ●. Shakira became the first artist to perform a Spanish language song at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2005.

Look, you don't have to like Shakira or J. Click through the slideshow above to see the singer through the years.

For a lot of viewers, the real surprise of the night was the fact of these women’s ages: Shakira just turned 43, and Lopez is 50. Become a BuzzFeed News member. Unlike the rest of us, celebrities employ teams of people devoted to the sole task of keeping their bodies in tip-top condition: chefs, trainers, stylists, facialists, and, yes, plastic surgeons. One of Hulu's most popular shows adds its nastiest... Opinion: The 'SNL' political cold opens are an... SNL: Rudolph returns as 'Vice President In Charge'... How a venue built on a city dump became a Bay Area icon. Every one of those headlines is garbage. Shakira, center, poses with her parents at the Billboard Latin Music Awards on April 22, 1999, at the Fountainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, Fla., after winning the award for Pop Album of the Year. Shakira and her son Milan perform the closing ceremony during the 2014 World Cup final match between Germany and Argentina at The Maracana Stadium on July 13, 2014, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I’m half convinced that Shakira waggled her tongue at the cameras, to the bafflement of Fox News, especially for her legions of lesbian fans.

5.5m Likes, 43.4k Comments - Shakira (@shakira) on Instagram: “This is a new bathing suit I designed and my friend Bego made for me. Adam Levine and Shakira appear on an episode of The Voice in 2013.

All Rights Reserved. Musical guest Shakira sat for an interview with television host Jay Leno on Nov. 15, 2001. (Give Amy Adams her Oscar already!!!!!).