Ricky Martin is a Gay
Pop heartthrob Ricky Martin has announced he is gay to end years of speculation about his sexuality. The Livin’ La Vida Loca singer posted on his official website: ‘I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.’
Martin, who had always dodged questions about his sexuality, told fans the birth of his twin sons in August 2008 and writing his memoirs made him decide to come out.
The twins were born via a surrogate and at the time no details were given about the birth or the mother.
The Puerto Rican star admitted ‘fear and insecurity’ made him keep quiet about his sexuality but told of his ‘happiness’ at finally revealing who he is.
Martin, 38, posted: ‘To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where [sic] born with.’
In 2000, TV journalist Barbara Walters grilled him about whether he was gay, but he refused to disclose it.
The singer began his career with boy band Menudo and broke out as a solo artist and teen idol in the 1990s in Spanish-speaking countries.
He released his first, English-language album in 1999, the self-titled Ricky Martin, which saw two major hits, Livin’ la Vida Loca and She’s All I Ever Had.
Since then, Martin has been a star in both North America and South America.
Jarrett Barrios, the president of the U.S.-based Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), welcomed what he called Martin’s ‘openness and honesty’.
His full message read: ‘A few months ago I decided to write my memoirs, a project I knew was going to bring me closer to an amazing turning point in my life.
‘From the moment I wrote the first phrase I was sure the book was the tool that was going to help me free myself from things I was carrying within me for a long time.
‘Things that were too heavy for me to keep inside. Writing this account of my life, I got very close to my truth. And this is something worth celebrating.
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