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’