It’s been almost 15 years since musical couple Christina Milian and The Dream went their separate ways. In that time, both of them have taken their lives in completely new directions.
Last year, Christina spoke with Essence magazine during New York Fashion Week to talk about her new life in Paris. She moved to France to live with her husband, pop singer Matt Pokora, and to bring up her children. As well as her two kids with Matt, Christina also raises her daughter Violet, whom she had with The Dream.
When she was asked about the change of relocating to Paris, Christina said that it was “awesome.” She said: “Paris is one of the most beautiful places in the world to live.”
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She also felt that the “active lifestyle“ of the city suited her, as someone who likes “to move around.” Christina talked about her love of the people, architecture, and history of the city, and said that it was “rich in culture.”
The singer also mentioned how great Paris had been for her children. She said: “I do a lot with my kids. I take them to the park. There are parks everywhere. My daughter and I, after school I pick her up and we just go walking.” She added that on the weekends, they would go and find some “really cool food,” go shopping, or just “discover things.”
Despite being a busy mom of three, Christina has also found time to enjoy some quality time in Paris with Matt. She said: “Then my husband and I have really great dinners and we’ll go get a massage and we’ll do things.”
Christina and Her Family Are Learning French
She added: “I feel like it’s one of the best places for us to raise our family because we don’t really like to be bored anyways and we’re always moving around.” Christina concluded that the whole family was “really happy there.”
However, the move has not been without its difficulties. Christina also told Essence that “one of the biggest challenges is just the language.”
She was quoted as saying: “There’s really not that big of a language barrier because a lot of Americans and a lot of people speak English there. If I wanted to, I could just rely on that.”
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However, she went on to say: “But because my husband’s French and I do go to a lot of dinners with a lot of French people, the first thing they want to do is speak French.” Although Christina said she was “okay with hanging out and eating”, she felt like she should start trying to advance in the language.
She said: “I’m now getting to the point where I’m like, all right, I should be part of this conversation.” So, she started focusing on trying to become fluent in French. And she said that she was “getting so much better”.
Essence also asked her if her daughter Violet was learning French, too. Christina said that her daughter with The Dream was getting about six French lessons a week. She also stated that Violet was “very comfortable” at her international school and that she and her fellow students were “all on the same level of learning.”
The Dream Opened Up About His Plans for the Future
Violet’s father has been equally busy, as he has been focusing on his career back in his home state of Atlanta. In December 2022, he was interviewed by GQ after being nominated for the Grammy’s first-ever Songwriter of the Year award.
He achieved this thanks to his celebrated work writing songs for artists like Beyonce for her album Renaissance. But following his nomination, he claimed that he wanted to focus more on forging his own path in music.
The Dream opened up about his fears of missing out on stages in his career simply out of fear. He explained: “I just feared the idea that I could have records and I’m sitting on them.”
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The Dream also talked about making a documentary about his first album, Love/Hate. He explained that his manager’s sons were “literally filming everything,” meaning that there was a lot of footage of the album’s creation that The Dream wanted to share. The release of his first album came in 2007, a couple of years before he started a relationship with Christina.
The Dream and Christina got engaged in 2009 after just a few months of dating, only to separate the same year. They had their daughter the following year and finally got divorced in 2011. In 2018, Christina told The Real that she and The Dream were friends and co-parenting Violet.
