The singer Enrique Iglesias is extremely reserved with his private life. Elusive with the media, he is barely seen offstage. And he has strictly followed his rule of not talking about his family. Married to former tennis player Anna Kournikova, the couple has three children, twins Lucy and Nicholas, 5 years old, and Mary, 3. Their parents only share an image of them very occasionally on their social networks.
But since the rules are meant to be broken, the son of Julio Iglesias, always discreet and cautious, has been encouraged to reveal some details of his family life and also of his love story with Anna, which has already lasted 21 years.
It was during an interview with People magazine, in which the 48-year-old singer reviewed his musical successes, when he shared his opinion about his long relationship. “You learn as you go. You have your good times and bad times, and if you can get through the bad times, you’ll get to the really good ones,” admits Iglesias.
“A lot of people say, ‘Oh, well, I know this is the person I’m going to spend the rest of my life with.’ I’m okay with that, but at the same time, you never know where life will take you and what it might take.” pass”. In this statement, many have wanted to see that the Bailando interpreter does not close the doors to the possibility that, at some point, his story with the former athlete could end.
The couple met in 2001, during the filming of the famous video clip for their hit Escape, where Kournikova acted as the model who has an affair with the singer after seeing her in the crowd of the audience. From that moment they began their love story that continues to this day. According to what she said in the interview, this way of getting to know each other was a “milestone” that changed her life “in a way that she didn’t even imagine.”
Iglesias has explained that he and Kournikova, 42, “grew” together under the spotlight and public scrutiny, which helped create a solid foundation. “When we met, although she came from the world of sports, in a way, we understood each other. She knew what my world was like. I knew what her world was like. So that understanding helped a lot,” he said. “We started connecting little by little and became stronger and stronger.”
Now, more than two decades later, he is proud of the private universe they have built together for their three children: twins Lucy and Nicholas, 5, and daughter Mary, 3. The When I Fall in Love interpreter has also revealed that the three little ones are his best fans. And he has shared how he does it to resolve conflicts between them. “When I pick them up from school and they’re having a bad day or one of them is crying or they’re fighting, we say, ‘Guys, what’s your favorite song?’ And then one starts singing I Like It, and then everyone starts singing it, and it’s so beautiful,” added Enrique, who assures that “now I’m enjoying it. “I am enjoying every day.”
A few weeks ago the singer shared a video in which he dances with children on a pier, as a way to announce the launch of his new song Así Es La Vida, in collaboration with the singer María Becerra, and which is about living in the moment. with a loved one through the ups and downs of life. “It may sound a little cheesy when you translate it into English, but in Spanish it is a song that I am very proud of from a lyrical point of view,” he confessed. “I feel like it’s a song that only at this point in my life could I have written.”
The Latin pop star is currently on tour with The Trilogy Tour, with his colleagues Pitbull and Ricky Martin, and has had to leave his personal fan club at home. “When I go on tour, I miss them a lot. I feel like they’re not old enough to travel with me yet,” he notes. And he details that his backstage routine on tour is pretty boring. “I like silence and being in my zone before going on stage. I don’t like a lot of craziness backstage. It’s the complete opposite of Almost Famous.”
