How Enrique Iglesias Turned a Video Romance Into a Real One

When we follow the gossip of the entertainment world, we morbidly enjoy our popcorn while watching the drama of courtships, marriages, and breakups. After all, everything in Hollywood is glittery but also ephemeral. However, exceptions do exist, and this is the case of our couple in this article, talents that, if it weren’t for coincidences and contracts, would never have found each other, but now they will never be separated.

At Now I’ve Seen Everything we watch with little hearts in our eyes 😍 the wonderful relationship of Anna Kournikova and Enrique Iglesias, who have been laughing together for more than 20 years and making us wish we had someone special in our lives.

Enrique was born in Madrid in 1975, and Anna was more than four thousand kilometers away, but fate had it in its own way so that both ended up living in the United States, where they finally got to know each other. When Enrique was very young, his father, Julio Iglesias, a popular and internationally famous singer, and his mother, Isabel Preysler, a socialite who rarely failed to appear in any magazine, divorced.

Due to life circumstances, Enrique and his siblings ended up moving to Miami to live with their father. A few years later, Anna, who was the daughter of athletes, also arrived in North America with a scholarship to study at the prestigious IMG Academy for athletes.

While Enrique had spent much of his adolescence writing songs on the sly and dreaming of becoming a singer, Anna had been practicing and perfecting her technique to break into professional tennis. By the end of 1995, both were building successful careers, each in their own discipline, that would come with many awards and triumphs.

Almost at the same time that the still anonymous singer-songwriter was releasing his first album, Enrique Iglesias, which would catapult him to international fame, the young Anna was climbing the sporting ladder to the top of the list of the best female tennis players in the world.

As the lyrics of the song predicted “You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape my love,” neither of them could escape Cupid’s arrow during the filming of the video clip Escape. But that first meeting was far from idyllic and romantic. At the time of the shoot, he was coming down with a cold and she had an allergic reaction on her lips.

In addition, both confessed later in the Making of the video that they were nervous, especially Kournikova, who despite having collaborated in other interpretations before, never in a similar participation and with so much prominence. Those suggestive scenes that we see in the final video, in which both look splendid, were actually recorded between nerves, nasal congestion, swollen lips, and antihistamines for both.

From the beginning, these celebrities chose to keep their relationship on the sidelines of their public life, without making statements about it or giving much to talk about. Although in the beginning, it was easier to see them together since she accompanied him on some occasions to some events, little by little their appearances began to be less and less frequent.

This made the press speculate on more than one occasion about their separation or divorce or if they have ever said “I do,” because that is also something that has never been known, nor has it been possible to prove. The truth is that in recent years the couple has sealed off their private life to the point of making virtually no public appearances together.

Within that secrecy that we mentioned before, Nicholas and Lucy, the couple’s first children, arrived. The twins were born in 2017 after a pregnancy out carried totally in secret. It was not until a month after their birth that the world knew about them. Their parents took advantage of their social media to announce the news.

On the same day, they both posted on their Instagram under the phrase “My ray of sunshine” a photo of each other with one of the twins. Since then, and despite the discretion that characterizes them, they have not stopped sharing heartwarming images and videos of their precious little ones.

On January 30, 2020, little Mary arrived to turn this beautiful family into a large one. Her proud father broke the news again through his social media, in exactly the same way as the previous time, even using the phrase “My ray of sunshine” in the caption of the photo. Currently, the couple and their children live in a private luxury resort in California.

In addition to high security, the private residential community is legally shielded from the press and paparazzi, which will allow these famous parents to raise their children away from the media eye and hidden cameras. While we totally understand and respect that they want to safeguard their privacy, we would love, and look forward to, finally seeing an official picture of this precious, cross-cultural, family.

Anna and Enrique met by the fortunes of destiny, how did you meet your partner?