Cameron Mathison has been charming audiences for years as a mannequin, actor, and TV host. Along with his correspondent gigs for Good Morning America and Leisure Tonight, the Canadian-born star has appeared in additional than 10 Hallmark channel films and at the moment stars as Drew Kain on the favored cleaning soap, Common Hospital. Off-screen, he’s the devoted father of two children and a husband to the previous mannequin, Vanessa Arevalo. Right here’s every part it’s essential to learn about Cameron Mathison’s spouse.
Who Is Vanessa Arevalo?
Born in Puerto Rico, Vanessa Arevalo (now Vanessa Mathison) is a former mannequin turned entrepreneur. Whereas we don’t know a lot about her adolescence or background, we do know that she was knowledgeable mannequin for 18 years earlier than calling it quits to grow to be a mother (extra on that in a minute!).
In 2008, she pivoted from stay-at-home-mom to businesswoman when she partnered with good friend and fellow entrepreneur, Niccole Kroll, to create a kids’s clothes line known as KEA + JOBY. “The garments promote themselves, they’re improbable,” she said in a 2008 interview with People. “They’re so gentle that the children don’t need to take them off. The type is so clear and fundamental, there’s a sophistication to them. They usually don’t seem like each different baby’s garments on the playground. You need your baby to look particular.”
Cameron And Vanessa Have Been Married Since 2002
In keeping with Cameron, Vanessa was a bit wild again in her modeling days. “After we first met, we had been, like, full-time, part-time partiers,” Cameron admitted in a 2017 interview with Soap Opera Digest. “I used to be a maniac, and she or he was my partner-in-crime!”
Nonetheless, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the couple began to comprehend they wished to take life a bit extra severely. “I keep in mind [Vanessa] telling me as soon as that she felt like her job on Earth was to be a mother, and I used to be floored by that as a result of she was a profitable mannequin with an unbelievable enterprise sense and had a lot of stuff happening,” Cameron defined. “I keep in mind that dialog properly, how critical she was. First, it was like, ‘Guess I’m shopping for a hoop!’ After which it was like, ‘Guess we’re having children!’”
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Cameron and Vanessa did each these issues. The pair tied the knot in 2002, on the heels of a really romantic marriage proposal whereas on a ski journey in Vail, Colorado.
”We hiked up by means of the snow to this little plateau—she was really a bit aggravated at me,” Cameron said in an interview with YourTango.com. “I sat her down with a lovely view behind her and I turned my again to her to go arrange the digital camera. I pulled out the ring and circled and proposed to her with the digital camera taking a ton of images. Then, I had an enormous champagne lunch ready for us on the backside of the mountain. We skied down the mountain—she stated she couldn’t really feel her legs and was terrified she would fall and break her leg!”
Fortunately, that didn’t occur. The engagement and marriage ceremony went off with no hitch, and the couple had their first baby, Lucas, in April of 2003. Leila, their second, was born in July of 2006. Whereas Vanessa was overjoyed to grow to be a mother, she did admit it was an adjustment at first. “I feel I went by means of a little bit of an id disaster,” she stated in her 2008 Folks interview. “I used to be a really profitable mannequin for 18 years. I used to be fully unbiased and self-sufficient and traveled world wide. And in a minute I used to be a stay-at-home mother.”
Cameron stated he additionally skilled a little bit of shock turning into a dad. “Unexpectedly, I had this little, stunning stranger come into the world and grow to be a very powerful factor to me,” he instructed Cleaning soap Opera Digest. “It’s the perfect factor that ever occurred to me, however on the similar time, it was a shock. Wait a minute, it’s not about me anymore? What’s up with that?”
Now that the children are (nearly) all grown up—Lucas is eighteen and Leila is 15—Cameron and Vanessa have actually settled down into parenthood. And each make a degree to spend as a lot time with their children as they will as they develop into maturity. “I actually make an effort as a dad, not solely to spend household time with them but in addition to have one-on-one alone time with every of them,” Cameron stated in his Cleaning soap Opera Digest interview. “They’ve so many cool pursuits.”
