Shakira put on a characteristically sizzling display when she hit the stage for a steamy performance at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park this Saturday.
This year’s glittering lineup included Tyla, Ayra Starr, Mariah the Scientist and Elyanna, but at the top of the bill were headliners Shakira and Cardi B.
As she treated the audience to her powerful vocals, Shakira, 48, danced up a storm, proving she has not lost any of her onstage energy – nor her sense of fun.
Wearing a sheer bodysuit that showed off her enviably sculpted figure, she grinded on a pair of musclebound male backup dancers.
The Hips Don’t Lie songstress flaunted her shapely derriere to the audience while prancing around the stage in her skintight costume.
Her signature fiery curls cascaded freely down her back, and the Colombia-born pop star accentuated her luminous complexion with stage makeup.
Shakira grinded gleefully on two musclebound male backup dancers when she hit the stage for a steamy performance at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park this Saturday
Meanwhile Cardi B, who recently announced she is pregnant with her fourth baby, proudly displayed her blossoming bump in her stage outfit.
Wearing a fitted mahogany top with a set of maternity jeans that had an elastic waistband, Cardi strutted her stuff around the stage in a luxurious red wig.
After a flurry of speculation, she announced last week that she is expecting her fourth child, who will be her first by her NFL boyfriend Stefon Diggs.
She shares her three older children – Kulture, seven, Wave, three, and Blossom, 11 months – with her estranged husband Offset, a fellow rapper with whom she has yet to finalize her bitter and protracted divorce.
One day after her latest pregnancy reveal, it emerged that Stefon, who started dating Cardi last October, was slapped with a paternity suit in December by an Instagram model who was pregnant at the time with a baby she claims is his.
In the middle of the publicity firestorm, and weeks after she was cleared in her viral civil assault trial, Cardi also out her second studio album Am I the Drama?.
While promoting the album, she revealed she has had her surgically enhanced buttocks reduced, in an operation that left her bedridden for three months.
Without disclosing when the latest operation took place, she confessed that she wants her derriere to be even smaller but is reluctant to redo the procedure.
The Hips Don’t Lie songstress flaunted her shapely derriere to the audience while prancing around the stage in her skintight costume
This year’s glittering lineup included Tyla, Ayra Starr, Mariah the Scientist and Elyanna, but at the top of the bill were headliners Shakira and Cardi B
As she treated the audience to her powerful vocals, Shakira, 48, danced up a storm, proving she has not lost any of her onstage energy – nor her sense of fun
Her signature fiery curls cascaded freely down her back, and the Colombia-born pop star accentuated her luminous complexion with stage makeup
‘I already did a reduction already and people will be like, “Well, you need to reduce your butt more,”‘ she told Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy. ‘And it’s like, I think you guys think that people just plug something inside my a**hole and just suck it out.’
Cardi previously revealed in December 2022 that she had gotten 95% of the biopolymers – buttock injections – removed from her backside that August.
‘All I’m going to say is that if you’re young, if you’re 19, 20, 21, and sometimes you’re too skinny, and you be like: “OMG I don’t have enough fat to put in my a**” so you result to a** shots, DON’T!’ Cardi urged her fans on Instagram Live.
During her pre-fame days as a New York City stripper, Cardi once had her derriere illegally injected with silicone in a basement.
Years ago she shared that she got the illicit buttock augmentation partly because a man dumped her for a woman with ‘a fat, big a**.’
There was also a financial incentive for the procedure, as she noticed other strippers with larger behinds managing to out-earn her, she told GQ.
After she got her basement injections for $800 she wound up in such terrible pain ‘I felt like I was gonna pass out,’ on top of which the implants leaked for five days.
Cardi declared last week that she will continue working through her pregnancy and still plans to go on tour this coming February, the month her baby is due.
Meanwhile Cardi B, who recently announced she is pregnant with her fourth baby, proudly displayed her blossoming bump in her stage outfit
Wearing a fitted mahogany top with a set of maternity jeans that had an elastic waistband, Cardi strutted her stuff around the stage in a luxurious red wig
While promoting the album, she revealed she has had her surgically enhanced buttocks reduced, in an operation that left her bedridden for three months
She insisted: ‘After this album run, it’s straight to exercising. It’s straight to dance classes – when the baby come out, my body will be loose – and straight rehearsals with all my dancers. I’m not playin’. I owe this to myself and I owe this to my fans.’
Stefon leapt into the comments of her post and gushed that he was ‘Proud of you for staying focused,’ adding a heart emoji for good measure.
It had emerged that day that an Instagram model called Aileen Lopera, who goes by Lord Gisselle on social media, filed a paternity suit against him last December.
She was pregnant at the time with a baby who was eventually born on April 2, and whom she gave the name Charliee Harper Diggs-Lopera.
Stefon responded to her suit this July claiming to be unsure whether he fathered the baby – although he added that if he did, he wants joint legal and physical custody, in contrast to Aileen, who demanded sole custody with Stefon only permitted visitation.
Meanwhile an old video has resurfaced showing Stefon’s teammates saying they would not want him dating their sisters, with one calling him ‘outrageous’ and another describing him as ‘not a guy that you want to bring home to your parents.’
At the start of this month, Cardi was cleared in her $24 million civil assault trial, in which she was accused of physically attacking a female security guard who allegedly followed her and filmed her at a doctor’s office in 2018.
Without disclosing when the latest operation took place, she confessed that she wants her derriere to be even smaller but is reluctant to redo the procedure
The plaintiff claimed the rapper struck her, spat on her and even slashed her with her fingernail in the encounter, which took place when Cardi was pregnant with Kulture.
During a courthouse press conference on the day of closing arguments, Cardi exploded and threw a pen at a journalist who asked about her new pregnancy rumors, which she at that point had yet to publicly confirm.
Later that day, she was cleared – the culmination of a rollicking trial in which she hit the headlines for making sardonic faces, mocking the plaintiff, modeling extravagant outfits and wearing different color wigs from one court date to the next.
Cashing in on the fracas, Cardi released a limited ‘courtroom edition’ of Am I the Drama? with a selection of new covers made up of photos showing her at the trial.
