Shakira laughed as she remembered it.
In an interview with Univisión that has continued to go viral since 2023, the singer said that as a child, in her native Barranquilla, the heat made lice almost inevitable among the neighborhood kids. And she was no exception.
What surprised everyone was her mother’s remedy: Baygon, the same insecticide used against cockroaches and ants, applied directly to her head as a child. Without drama, without shame, Shakira tells it as just another one of those anecdotes that only those who grew up in homes where moms solved everything with whatever they had on hand can understand. Dangerous, yes. But also part of a childhood she remembers fondly and without any resentment.