{"id":2276056,"date":"2026-02-10T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2276056"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:39:24","slug":"ricky-martins-then-and-now-photos-display-phenomenal-transformation-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ricky-martins-then-and-now-photos-display-phenomenal-transformation-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Martin’s then-and-now photos display phenomenal transformation over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Ricky’s career kept rising, interest in his personal life did too. In August 2008, he became a dad to twin boys \u2013 Matteo<\/strong> and Valentino<\/strong> \u2013 via surrogacy<\/a>. Two years later, he came out as gay through a statement to his website.<\/p>\n

Ricky said: “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.” When he opened up about becoming a father as a gay man, he told Out<\/a> magazine: “Many years I dreamt of being a father, and many, many, many times I went through this grieving process of ‘I am gay, I am a closeted gay man, and I’m not going to be able to be a daddy.'”<\/p>\n

While navigating the early years of his sons’ lives, Ricky started dating Puerto Rican economist Carlos Gonz\u00e1lez Abella<\/strong>. The two were together for four years, breaking up in 2014.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Ricky started dating Syrian-Swedish painter Jwan Yosef<\/strong>. The two married in 2018, the same year they welcomed their daughter Lucia<\/strong>. At the time, Ricky posted to Instagram, writing: “Both her brothers and Jwan and I are completely in love with our baby and grateful to be able to start this 2019 with the best gift we could receive, the gift of life.”<\/p>\n

Nine months later, Ricky’s fourth child, Renn<\/strong>, was born via surrogacy. In 2023, after six years of marriage, Jwan and Ricky divorced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As Ricky’s career kept rising, interest in his personal life did too. In August 2008, he became a dad to twin boys \u2013 Matteo and Valentino \u2013 via surrogacy. Two years later, he came out as gay through a statement to his website. Ricky said: “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2276057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[24003,340699,346955],"class_list":["post-2276056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-celebrity-news","tag-ricky-martin","tag-super-bowl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ricky-Martins-then-and-now-photos-display-phenomenal-transformation-over-the-years.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276058,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276056\/revisions\/2276058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}