They seemed like the perfect marriage, but apparently there were issues that, no matter how much they were suited for each other and how well-connected they appeared to the outside, not even they themselves could overcome. The couple formed by Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello raised passions, and the announcement of their divorce a few months ago fell like a bucket of cold water on their followers.
Their different lifestyles pointed to the main cause of the separation, but it was the protagonist of Griselda who wanted to clarify the real reason for their divorce after a decade together: their plans to increase their family.
Last July, Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello announced their separation after almost a decade together, explaining in a statement that they were beginning “a new phase” in their lives. However, little or nothing was known about the reasons for this unexpected breakup, until now.
“My husband was younger (Manganiello is 47 years old). He wanted to have children and I didn’t want to be an older mother,” explained the Colombian actress, 51, in a recent interview with the newspaper El País, ensuring that her decision It was because she feels “it’s not fair to the baby”, although she adds that she respects those who wish to welcome children at a later stage in their life.
“That’s not for me anymore,” she insists, explaining that she became a mother at 19 and, with her son Manolo now 32, she is ready for another phase of her life. “I’m ready to be a grandmother, not a mother. I’m almost in menopause, it’s the natural way of things.”
Manolo González is the only child of the actress, the result of her marriage to José Luis “Joe” González. At the moment, the young man does not seem concerned about giving grandchildren to his famous mother, and he is focused on his career as an actor, appearing in various television series and succeeding as an influencer on Instagram. His great love, Baguetta, his chihuahua, who accompanies him everywhere.
“If love comes back, it has to come with her own children,” insists the actress, who recently introduced her new partner, orthopedic surgeon Justin Saliman, with whom she posed for the first time a few days ago on the Emmys red carpet. . “When my son becomes a father, let him bring the baby to me for a while and then I give it back to him so he can move on with my life; that’s what I have to do.”
Joe Manganiello, for his part, also seems to have overcome his breakup with Barranquila. Last December he introduced his new love, the actress and dancer Caitlin O’Connor, 13 years younger than him and with whom he had been dating since last September.
