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After the separation of the Colombian actress Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganello, After a marriage that lasted seven years, the 51-year-old woman gave an interview for the magazine People in which she confessed the reason why she did not have children with her last ex-husband.
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“There are things in life that may seem like good ideas, but they are not. “I was already a mother,” said the actress for the magazine. And, Sofía Vergara was a mother at the age of 19 when she gave birth to her son Manolo, who is now 32 years old, and whom she had with her ex-partner Joe González, who was her first husband. .
She also talked about the role of being a mother and what it means to be a good one, because For her it requires sacrifice and energy. In addition, she stated that now she feels comfortable having had Manolo at a young age, because she will be 52 and he will be 32.
She even spoke about the feminine nature that does not allow adult women to have children, but also about the advances that science has developed in this field, so that more women can be mothers in adulthood.
“These days, thanks to science, women can actually have babies when they are older. Before, nature for some reason told you that your body at 50 would enter menopause, that it was time to end that. There is a reason why nature is doing it… the Colombian tells People.
Finally, the actress confessed that due to her professional career it is difficult to have more children, because It requires a lot of time and you couldn’t give your 100%.
““I didn’t think that because of my career, the way I live my life, the way my marriage was that it was fair to bring a child into this world, and I’m not going to be able to give it 100 percent,” counted for People.
The couple met in 2014 and got engaged that same year. They got married in 2015 in the United States. However, everything came to an end last July 2023 alleging “irreconcilable differences” Between both.
At that time, the actress confessed that Manganiello pressured her to have more children and this became the trigger for them to decide to go their separate ways.
“I am a recently divorced woman. My marriage broke up because my husband was younger, he wanted to have children and I didn’t want to be an old mom. I feel like it’s not fair for the baby,” explained the 51-year-old Barranquilla woman, remembering the age difference with her 47-year-old ex-husband.
“That’s not for me anymore. “I already had a child at 19 years old, and I am ready to be a grandmother, not a mother,” Vergara said, referring to her only son Manolo González-Ripoll, 32.
