Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova are nonetheless fortunate in love after 21 years — all because of the connection they shaped whereas filming his “Escape” music video.
“[The video changed my life] in ways in which I didn’t even take into consideration,” the musician, 48, advised Individuals in an interview revealed on Thursday, October 26. “Once we met — though she got here from the sports activities world — in a approach, we sort of acquired one another.”
When Iglesias filmed the video for “Escape” in 2001, the tennis champ, now 42, was forged as his onscreen love curiosity. When the cameras stopped rolling, Iglesias and Kournikova continued attending to know each other.
“She knew what my world was like. I sort of knew what her world was like. In order that understanding helped lots,” he recalled. “We simply began connecting little by little and acquired stronger and stronger and stronger.”
Iglesias beforehand revealed throughout a 2001 episode of MTV’s Making the Video that he by no means met Kournikova earlier than her music video cameo however asserted that he was a “large fan” of hers. “I’m positive quite a lot of guys need to meet her. I’m one in every of them,” he gushed on the time. “She’s lovely, gifted [and a] nice tennis participant, you realize, and I’m positive she’s going to be nice within the video.”
Iglesias and Kournikova went public with their romance in August 2002, however they nonetheless managed to maintain their relationship comparatively non-public.
“It’s not that powerful [to stay under the radar],” Iglesias stated on Australia’s At this time Tonight in November 2011. “You’ve acquired to have a humorousness. [There have been rumors] I’ve been married about 28 instances, have youngsters everywhere in the world. … I believe I’ve acquired twins in Australia, in Perth. Actually, you simply giggle at it.”
Iglesias and Kournikova went on to develop their household in December 2017, welcoming twins Nicholas and Lucy. Their youngest daughter, Mary, arrived in February 2020.
“After I decide them up from college they usually’re having a foul day or one in every of them is crying or they’re combating, we are saying, ‘Guys, what’s your favourite tune?’ After which one breaks out into [my song] ‘I Like It,’ after which all of them begin singing it, and it’s so cute,” Iglesias gushed to Individuals, noting that his little ones are large followers of his music catalog. “I’m simply having fun with now. I’m having fun with each single day.”
Nevertheless, when Iglesias goes out on tour, he misses Nicholas and Lucy, each 5, and Mary, 3, “lots.” He advised the journal, “I really feel like they’re nonetheless not sufficiently old to go on the street with me [yet].”