Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef have announced they are calling it quits after six years of marriage.
“We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honoring what we have experienced as a couple all these wonderful years,” the Puerto Rican singer and Syrian Swedish painter told People in a joint statement on Thursday.
They added that their “greatest desire now is to continue having a healthy family dynamic and a relationship centred on peace and friendship to continue the joint upbringing of our children, preserving the respect and love we have for each other”.
Ricky and Jwan welcomed daughter Lucia in 2018 and son Renn in 2019, adding to a family that already included twin sons Matteo and Valentino, born in 2008.
The Livin’ La Vida Loca singer previously said that the twins are trilingual, speaking Spanish, English and French, while Jwan recently said that the “way I bring up my babies is that I focus on Arabic rather than English or Swedish”.
Ricky reportedly met Jwan via Instagram in 2015 before making their relationship official at a 2016 gala for amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. When it came time to pop the question, however, Ricky apparently endearingly fumbled it.
“I was really nervous, but I got on my knees, and I took out the ... little velvet pouch” he told Ellen DeGeneres in 2017, recalling the previous year’s proposal.
“And instead of saying, ‘Would you marry me?’ I said, ‘I got you something!’ Bad.”
Ricky confirmed in early 2018 that he and Jwan had tied the knot, adding that they “signed all the papers that we needed to sign, prenups and everything”.
So far, 2023 has already been a busy year for the two.
Jwan opened a new studio in Los Angeles, while Ricky was cast in an upcoming Apple TV+ series featuring Laura Dern and Carol Burnett. In October, the singer is also set to kick off The Trilogy Tour across North America with co-headliners Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias.