Katarina Zivkovic, Milica Todorovic Duet at Birthday Party

Katarina Zivkovic threw a party on Sunday evening, August 2, to mark her son’s second birthday at the family villa in Belgrade. Photos and videos from the celebration surfaced a day later. The boy’s father is Nebojsa Stojkovic Stojke.

The party was closed, for family and the closest friends only. The singer handled the decor herself, and the whole space was done in white. Balloons filled every corner, with race cars as the main motif. Large car models stood beside a wall of balloons, and two crossed checkered flags, the kind used to mark the finish line in a race, sat at the center of the display.

The birthday boy wore white bermuda shorts and a blue shirt for the occasion. He blew out the candles on the cake together with his mother.

Milica Todorovic Joins In for a Duet

Among the guests was singer Milica Todorovic. The two of them sang together during the evening, microphones in hand, in front of the guests at the villa.

How the Friendship Began

Katarina Zivkovic and Milica Todorovic used to be roommates. They have kept the bond from that period alive to this day, so Milica was not on the guest list as a colleague from the stage but as a family friend.

In the photos from the celebration, the two embrace in front of the balloon decor, Katarina in a white lace dress, Milica in a denim jumpsuit.

A Mother’s Birthday on Stage, Her Son’s at Home

This celebration comes at the end of a summer Katarina Zivkovic spent largely on the road.

She marked her own 37th birthday on July 1 while working. She was performing in Bar, Montenegro, and at midnight the crowd brought her a mini cake with candles.

It’s most beautiful when you spend your birthday doing what you love most. Right at midnight, while I was performing in Bar, the crowd surprised me with a mini cake and candles.

Eleven days later she sang in Vranje, in the pedestrian zone, at the Balkan Youth Fest festival, as part of her “Summer to Remember” tour. Exactly three weeks after Vranje she performed again, this time at her own villa and only for those closest to her.

On Motherhood

Katarina Zivkovic recently spoke about how she manages the role of mother alongside a job that keeps her away from home several evenings a week. She said she is her own harshest judge.

It’s really hard. What you see on Instagram, those perfect moms who seem to manage everything, I believe that’s true for some people. It’s hard because I’m self critical, a ruthless perfectionist, I want to be perfect in every area. I want to be a perfect mother, to be perfect at work, and sometimes that turns into a burden. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.

Asked whether she is a permissive mother, she said she is not and does not plan to become one, then explained why:

He’s little, he’s a baby, he’s sweet, whatever he does feels as huge as a house to me. Whatever he does, I think: “Wow, only my child could do that.” I’m not a permissive mother even now, while he’s still so little, and I won’t be later either, because we live in a very dangerous time, when social media has taken over the narrative, fake profiles that give themselves the right to write and send whatever they want. You have to be mentally stable to get through all of it. Imagine handing a small child a phone and they read something about themselves, or get some disturbing messages, imagine how that affects not just a child’s psyche but a grown person’s too. We live in dangerous times. Our childhood cannot be compared to these times, not just for children, but for the rest of us old folks too.

She also spoke about wanting a bigger family, but said her current wishes are tied to work.

That has been my wish my whole life, it’s sort of a given, but right now my wishes are purely about work. I know everything else is fine as it is, because I’m giving it my max.

She has not given a statement about the celebration itself. The photos from the party are credited to Bojana Zuza and were made available to the media, which is the only reason anything is known about how the villa looked that night.