With their children “dancing in the middle”, many celebrities have faced conflicts such as the one currently starring the Colombian singer Shakira and the former soccer player Gerard Piqué, who procreated Milan, 9, and Sasha, 7, now exposed to barrage media coverage of insults and mockery experienced by their parents.
Difficult situations have also faced the offspring of other celebrities such as the actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pit, the salsa singer Marc Anthony and Dayanara Torres, the Venezuelan Marjorie de Sousa and the Argentine Julián Gil, Luis Miguel and the actress Aracely Arámbula; Paulina Rubio y Colate, actress Halle Berry and the father of her daughter Gabriel Aubry; the singer Cristian Castro and Gabriela Liberman, and Paulina Rubio and Colate, just to mention a group.
Right now Shakira and Gerard Piqué have international attention for starring in one of the most controversial divorces in entertainment history, with events that involve a distillation of pain, by the mother when she publicly exposes her situation by dedicating her ex-partner and father of his children, the songs “I congratulate you”, “Monotonía” and “Music Sessions #53”, together with Bizarrap. The latter full of insults to the father of his children, his girlfriend and his former mother-in-law (the children’s grandmother).
The song that became a money mine found Piqué’s mockery in response, which has largely fueled the conflict.
However, the children have been made invisible to both Shakira and Piqué, who still cannot see the trauma that this conflictive separation could cause.
In short, when mom and dad get divorced, it is a painful situation for the children and even more so if it takes place in the midst of a conflict between the parents, sometimes over custody or guardianship of the offspring.
The situation is more complicated for children and adolescents when this marital crisis is in the public domain, especially in the cases of famous people from the world of entertainment, who will be the objects of “gossip”, comments from show business and pink pages.
Many times these celebrities do not measure the consequences for their children, that if they are not worked with a therapist, the damage will be forever.
expert voice
“It is essential for the emotional development of children to pay attention to minors in the midst of a divorce, because separation brings with it a new adaptation, which is always complicated for infants. Various studies have shown that if children do not experience the conflict in the midst of divorce, they end up being more resilient and can handle stress more easily,” says child behavior expert Deyanira Fernández.
It is evident that in the case of Shakira and Pique, the children have not been taken into account, not only for the couple, but also for a society that is torn apart and enjoys the morbidity of a separation between celebrities. The specialist observes that the singer does not seem to be very aware of the consequences for her children, being sure that they will really be affected.
“Although Shakira has the right to channel her pain, there is a key point that is not being fulfilled in this separation and that is that the parents are not respecting each other in front of the children.
On the one hand, the mother throws hints in a song and the father makes fun of her, with the aggravating circumstance that this happens publicly,” he asserted.
Fernández believes that although Sasha and Milan could be being helped by specialists, the truth is that the famous singer’s children will be exposed to receiving inadequate information about the separation of their parents, perhaps more than necessary, also being bullied by from their classmates, at school and even end up embarrassed by a separation in which dad and mom must have thought about the mental health of their children and not about their own well-being”.
Jolie y Pitt
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt formed one of the most solid couples of the international jet set with a large family, which would later become a bone of contention with the advent of divorce. After two years of marriage, ten of free union, Jolie filed for divorce from the actor in 2016 for “irreconcilable differences.”
A fight and aggressive attitudes on the part of the actor towards children and alcoholism was the trigger for the separation.
Angelina immediately demanded custody of her six children, while Brad Pitt asked that the legal dispute not become a merciless war and joint custody.
Last year it became known that the actress was not going to stop until she had full custody. “Angelina is determined that Brad never gets 50/50 custody. There are those who say that she will not rest until the children are legally adults, so Brad will never have joint custody, ”she reported.
From “to bullets”
In Mexico, the Venezuelan actress Marjorie de Sousa and the Argentine actor Julián Gil not only fought for the separation, but for the son that both brought into the world and that was the cause of a strong controversy in which the actor ended up losing parental rights. What happened between them was a cloak-and-dagger battle, a trial that lasted years, in which there was even DNA evidence, inappropriate visits…
In the end, the judge determined that it would be Marjorie who would keep full custody of Matías and that Gil would have to pay 20 percent of his income for the support of his son and he could only see him if Sousa allowed it in an act of good faith. Undoubtedly this case will continue to be debated in the family future.
Sue Luis Miguel
The role of father to “El Sol de México” did not suit him at all, since he was the subject of lawsuits by actress Aracely Arámbula, mother of his children Daniel and Miguel, when they were minors for support and lack of attention to the kids.
On several occasions the actress made strong statements about how painful it had been to see her children grow up without the presence of their father Luis Miguel.
paulina rubio
Paulina Rubio has fought for her children before the courts several times and for different reasons. In 2021, she brought Nicolás Vallejo-Nágera to court again to prevent him from traveling to Spain with their son Andrea Nicolás that summer.
Before, Paulina had asked for custody and maintenance of the teenager. The Golden Girl and “Colate” have spent their lives fighting for custody of the child. The Mexican singer has also been in court for custody of the son she had with her ex Gerardo Bazúa. The singer threatened to take legal action against Paulina Rubio if she did not allow him to see her son Eros from her.
Marc Anthony
In 2014 Dayanara Torres, Miss Universe 1993, and mother of two of Marc Anthony’s children, obtained better support for her offspring of $26,800 a month. The salsa singer and the belle faced a legal dispute that lasted several years in court.
Finally Dayanara got double her demand. As the years go by, the differences are left behind and Marc Anthony and Dayanara have been able to enjoy the most important moments of their children.
Halle Berry
When the beautiful actress Halle Berry, in 2012, wanted to go live in France with her daughter Nahla, and her then partner Olivier Martínez, the girl’s father, the model Gabriel Aubry, refused to allow the minor to leave the United States.
Berry lost the legal action and had to share custody of the girl, for which he had to pay $14,000 in child support, school fees, and the child’s health insurance.
Cristian castro
In 2009 Cristian Castro and his ex Valeria Lieberman experienced a divorce that was the subject of entertainment for many years, from accusations ranging from domestic violence to doubts about Cristian’s sexual preference, it was handled in the media.
Finally, Valeria obtained custody of her two children, Simone Candy and Mikhail Zarathustra, and $18,000 in support.
