Superstar Shakira was attacked by a sea lion she was trying to photograph while on vacation in Cape Town,South Africa.
The Colombian-born singer updated her Facebooks status Wednesday, revealing that the sea lion attacked her when she leaned down to photograph and pet the lounging sea lions.
“I thought to myself how cute they were so I decided to get a bit closer than all of the other tourists and went down to a rock trying to pet them, doing a baby talk while taking pictures,” she wrote on the social networking site about the incident, which occurred Sunday.
“Omg what just happened to me! I was attacked by a sea lion! Lo que me ha sucedido hoy! Un leon marino ha intentado atacarme. Shak,” she wrote.
Shakira said the sea lion, who jumped right up out of the water, must have confused the blackberry she was photographing them with for something else entirely.
“Suddenly, one of them jumped out of the water so fast and impetuously that it got about one foot away from me, looked me in the eye, roared in fury and tried to bite me. Everyone there screamed, including me. I was paralysed (sic) by fear and couldn’t move,” she revealed.
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