Los Angeles:
Music sensation Ricky Martin and his husband of six years Jwan Yosef are getting divorced, the couple introduced on Friday. The Puerto Rican famous person and the painter-conceptual artist, who share two youngsters: daughter Lucia, born in 2018, and son Renn, born in 2019, mentioned they’ll proceed the joint upbringing of their kids.
“We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honouring what we have experienced as a couple all these wonderful years.
“Our biggest need now’s to proceed having a wholesome household dynamic and a relationship centred on peace and friendship to proceed the joint upbringing of our youngsters, preserving the respect and love now we have for one another,” the duo said in a joint statement to People magazine.
Ricky Martin, 51, and Jwan Yosef, 38, connected on Instagram in 2015 and started dating six months later. They made their relationship public at the 2016 amFAR Inspiration Gala and announced their engagement the same year. They got married in 2018.
Ricky Martin also has twin sons Matteo and Valentino, born in 2008, whom he will continue to raise as a single parent.
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