“We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children,” the ex-couple said in a statement to PEOPLE
Mike Marsland/Getty Jwan Yosef and Ricky Martin in May 2022
After six years of marriage, Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are getting divorced.
“We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and to honor what we have experienced as a couple all these wonderful years,” the Puerto Rican superstar and the Syrian-Swedish artist tell PEOPLE in a joint statement .
“Our greatest desire now is to continue to have a healthy family dynamic and a relationship centered on peace and friendship to continue raising our children together while maintaining the respect and love we have for one another,” the ex continues -Couple who share two children: daughter Lucia, born in 2018, and son Renn, born in 2019. (Martin previously welcomed twin sons Matteo and Valentino, born in 2008, whom he will continue to raise as a single parent.)
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Lionel Hahn/Getty Jwan Yosef and Ricky Martin in May 2022
Martin, 51, and Yosef, 38, first met on Instagram in 2015 and began dating six months later, having first met in person in London. They officially made love on the red carpet at the 2016 amFAR Inspiration Gala and announced their engagement that same year before wedding in 2018.
The “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer shared the news of their connection during an interview with E! with. News in January 2018. “I’m a husband, but we’re having a big party in a few months,” he told the outlet. “We took our vows and swore [sic] everything, and we signed all the papers we needed to sign, prenuptial agreements and everything.”
Both men, who each speak multiple languages, have spoken of their determination to pass on their linguistic flexibility to their four children.
“We speak Spanish at home, but they also speak English and French,” Martin shared during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2013, noting that his twin sons were enrolled in a French school. “I want them to be exposed to everything.”
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Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Ricky Martin, Jwan Yosef, Matteo Martin and Valentino Martin in 2016
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Yosef has said he also teaches Arabic to their two youngest children. “I raise my babies to focus on Arabic rather than English or Swedish,” he told My Kali. “I taught my kid how to count to 10 in Arabic and she’s only 2, which is wonderful.”
An accomplished painter and conceptual artist, Yosef has won awards including the Threadneedle Prize for Existing Artists in London and the Beers Contemporary Award for Emerging Art in London, both in 2013, according to Vogue Arabia. In 2020 he won the Archiproducts Design Award for a Carpet series he designed and inspired by his work with tape. Earlier this year he opened a new studio in LA.
Martin will star in the main cast of Apple TV+’s upcoming historical comedy Palm Royale, alongside Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Allison Janney and Carol Burnett. Later this year he will embark on the Trilogy tour of North America with co-headliners Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias.
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