![Karol G at the Billboard Women in Music Awards, where she was honored as Woman of the Year, in Inglewood, California, on March 6, 2024.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/7X3RCMFVSCFSHFCBDKM4R4EAQE.jpg?auth=f4cbd2e85e6e09a77cc79996f6b56872cec2e514414d37591835c59d15c8693c&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Karol G, first Latina honored by Billboard as Woman of the Year: ‘I was rejected so many times and I missed so many opportunities that I wondered why I wasn’t born a man’
The 33-year-old Colombian was recognized with an award that Madonna, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have won: ‘It took me a long time to accept myself as a woman, as a person, to stop hiding the things that for people were a defect’