In two worlds apart of music and tennis, two celebrities, Enrique Iglesias, the best selling Spanish pop sensation of the 1990s era and still a household hit, and Ana Kournikova, a glamour tennis player of the 2000 era, who lit up the world of tennis more for her appealing looks, the duo has harmonized in a 21 year long relationship making sweet music since their first meeting in 2001 on the set of Iglesias’ music video for Escape, in which Kournikova was making a cameo as the love interest.
That their bonding sans pen on paper has stood the test of time like the matured solid dazzle of gold in as celebrity hemisphere where celebrity marriages and relationships fall apart like the blowing wind, is a timeline saga by itself.
For all that soul sating that the two have found the ultimate bliss giving parenthood to three kids, including twins over whom Iglesias dotes over, marriage has been far from their minds though the pop sensation has aired that Kournikova has played it down whenever he broached the subject.
Ever since cupid knitted the couple together at Iglesias’ video shoot in 2001, it has been clean sailing in an unison that has grown endlessly.
The enchantment took off with Iglesias on MTV’s “Making The Video,” making no secret about his fascination for the alluring tennis star who was a worldwide celebrity who made a name appearing in glamour commercials and as a hot selling magazine cover girl for her sheer beauty.
At the time, Iglesias said of het on MTV’s “Making The Video,”I’ve never met her before, but I’m a big fan.
The relationship cemented in 2002, their lives have been highly private in their Miami mansion with both, unlike most celebrities preferring to keep off the public gaze and confining much of their time to their children twins Nicholas and Lucy (born in 2017) and daughter Mary (born in 2020) having welcomed their twins, Nicholas and Lucy, in 2017, and their daughter, Mary, in 2020.
PRIVATE LIVES
As it is, the couple have kept their personal lives highly private more so since becoming parents.
Moreover, they have continued to distance marriage with Kournikova saying, “I’m never getting married,” and Iglesias, “I don’t think you love somebody more because of a piece of paper. Nowadays, it’s not taboo to have kids and not be married. What makes a difference is that you’re a good parent, period.”
The singer has further made out that signing a piece of paper is absolutely meaningless to unifying a couple.
Born 8 May 1975, Enrique Iglesias, the singer and songwriter. launched his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican label Fonovisa where he released three Spanish albums Enrique Iglesias, Vivir and Cosas del Amor becoming the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade.
He went on to successfully convert into the mainstream English-language market and has gone on to make waves as a pop sensation.