Ricky Mart Is a Proud Gay Father — Meet His Four Kids Born via Surrogate

Contents:

• RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’
• RICKY MART REVEALS HE'S GAY
• RICKY MART ON G OUT AS GAY: 'I'VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE'
• RICKY MART REFLECTS ON NOT BEG READY TO E OUT AS GAY, HOW 'AMAZG' FELT WHEN HE DID
• RICKY MART IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE
• RICKY MART AND JWAN YOSEF TO DIVORCE AFTER 6 YEARSHE'LL BE LIV' LA VIDA SGLE. BY KASE WICKMANJULY 6, 2023CDY ORD/VF23SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMICIAN RICKY MART AND ARTIST JWAN YOSEF ANNOUNCED A JOT STATEMENT THAT THEY WILL DIVORCE AFTER SIX YEARS OF MARRIAGE."WE HAVE CID TO END OUR MARRIAGE WH LOVE, RPECT, AND DIGNY FOR OUR CHILDREN AND HONORG WHAT WE HAVE EXPERIENCED AS A UPLE ALL THE WONRFUL YEARS," THEY SAID THE STATEMENT, WHICH THEY POSTED SPANISH AND ENGLISH ON INSTAGRAM.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE PAIR HAVE TWO YOUNG CHILDREN TOGETHER, LUCIA (BORN 2018, SHARG MART’S CHRISTMAS EVE BIRTHDAY, A SWEET CINCE) AND RENN (BORN 2019), ADDN TO MART’S 14-YEAR-OLD TW BOYS MATTEO AND VALENTO, WHOM HE WELED VIA SURROGATE AND WILL NTUE TO RAISE AS A SGLE PARENT.“​OUR GREATT SIRE NOW IS TO NTUE HAVG A HEALTHY FAY DYNAMIC AND A RELATNSHIP CENTERED ON PEACE AND IENDSHIP TO NTUE THE JOT UPBRGG OF OUR CHILDREN, PRERVG THE RPECT AND LOVE WE HAVE FOR EACH OTHER,” THE STATEMENT NTUED.MART GOT HIS START MENUDO, A SPANISH-LANGUAGE BOY BAND, THE LATE ‘70S. HE EVENTUALLY BRANCHED OUT TO A SUCCSFUL SOLO REER AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE POP MIC, AS WELL AS ACTG ON-SCREEN AND ONSTAGE, NOTABLY A BROADWAY REVIVAL OF THE MIL EVA. MART ME OUT AS GAY 2010, POSTG A MSAGE ON HIS WEBSE THAT HE WAS “A FORTUNATE HOMOSEXUAL MAN.”IN 2012, MART TOLD VANY FAIR ABOUT HIS CISN TO PUBLICLY E OUT, SAYG THAT “THE PROCS STARTED OUT OF MY NEED TO BE HAPPY. AND TO HAVE SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-RPECT. LIKE SAYG OUT LOUD: ‘THIS IS ME. IT IS PART OF MY NATURE.’ . . . WHEN I ME OUT SO MANY PEOPLE ME UP TO ME AND SAID, ‘THANK YOU. FOR THE FIRST TIME I WAS ABLE TO GIVE MY SON A HUG, SCE HE ME OUT AND SAID THAT HE WAS GAY.’ I DID FOR ME, BUT ALSO HELPS OTHERS.”MART AND YOSEF ANNOUNCED THEIR ENGAGEMENT 2016 AND MARRIED 2018.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRPHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ON HER “SURREAL” JOURNEY FROM FLEABAG TO INDIANA JONTHE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINKASE WICKMAN
• RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’
• RICKY MART REVEALS HE IS GAY
• RICKY MART IS 'DISAPPOTED' BY HIS LACK OF ACTG OFFERS: 'IF IT'S BEE I'M GAY, THAT'S SAD'
• RICKY MART, 49, SHAR HE WAS ' LOVE' WH THE WOMEN HE DATED BEFORE G OUT AS GAY
• LAT SGER RICKY MART SAYS HE IS GAY

RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’

Ricky Mart is openg up about his cisn to e out as gay. ” “I got to the place I was fightg as I was wrg my book between sayg, ‘Am I gay? Am I gay?

And then I said, ‘Rick, you are a very fortunate homosexual man. You are gay.

After years of sisteppg qutns about his sexual orientatn, sger Ricky Mart reveals a heartfelt postg onle that he is gay. “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, ” Mart, 38, said Monday on “I am very blsed to be who I am.

RICKY MART REVEALS HE'S GAY

After Mart’s announcement Monday, the Gay, Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn issued a statement support of the sger. “When someone like Ricky Mart out, hundreds of lns of people now have a cultural nnectn wh an artist, a celebry and, perhaps most importantly, a father who happens to be gay, ” said Jarrett Barrs, Print of GLAAD. “His cisn to mol this kd of openns and honty n lead to greater acceptance for untls gay people U.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. ”“I got to the place I was fightg as I was wrg my book between sayg, ‘Am I gay?

RICKY MART ON G OUT AS GAY: 'I'VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE'

"Am I gay? In 2000, when he was 29, he was asked by Barbara Walters on natnal televisn if he was gay. "You uld say, 'Y I am gay or no I'm not.

"Mart officially me out via a statement on his webse 2010, statg: "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. "Mart said, " jt felt amazg" when he eventually share wh the world that he was gay, but he knows everyone do so their own time and when they feel fortable.

Ricky Mart, who me out as gay 2010, is a proud father to his four children — tw boys Matteo and Valento, dghter Lucia, and son most celebri, Ricky Mart also lov to share updat about his life on social media.

RICKY MART REFLECTS ON NOT BEG READY TO E OUT AS GAY, HOW 'AMAZG' FELT WHEN HE DID

| Source: Getty ImagMart had not yet e out as gay when Matteo and Valento were born via a surrogate Augt 2008. The "Kg of Lat Pop" revealed his sexual orientatn 2010, postg onle that he was "proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. Gay.

RICKY MART IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE

Mart announced himself as gay publilly the year 2010.

Is Ricky Mart Gay? Y, Ricky Mart is gay.

He announced himself gay the year 2010.

RICKY MART AND JWAN YOSEF TO DIVORCE AFTER 6 YEARSHE'LL BE LIV' LA VIDA SGLE. BY KASE WICKMANJULY 6, 2023CDY ORD/VF23SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMICIAN RICKY MART AND ARTIST JWAN YOSEF ANNOUNCED A JOT STATEMENT THAT THEY WILL DIVORCE AFTER SIX YEARS OF MARRIAGE."WE HAVE CID TO END OUR MARRIAGE WH LOVE, RPECT, AND DIGNY FOR OUR CHILDREN AND HONORG WHAT WE HAVE EXPERIENCED AS A UPLE ALL THE WONRFUL YEARS," THEY SAID THE STATEMENT, WHICH THEY POSTED SPANISH AND ENGLISH ON INSTAGRAM.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE PAIR HAVE TWO YOUNG CHILDREN TOGETHER, LUCIA (BORN 2018, SHARG MART’S CHRISTMAS EVE BIRTHDAY, A SWEET CINCE) AND RENN (BORN 2019), ADDN TO MART’S 14-YEAR-OLD TW BOYS MATTEO AND VALENTO, WHOM HE WELED VIA SURROGATE AND WILL NTUE TO RAISE AS A SGLE PARENT.“​OUR GREATT SIRE NOW IS TO NTUE HAVG A HEALTHY FAY DYNAMIC AND A RELATNSHIP CENTERED ON PEACE AND IENDSHIP TO NTUE THE JOT UPBRGG OF OUR CHILDREN, PRERVG THE RPECT AND LOVE WE HAVE FOR EACH OTHER,” THE STATEMENT NTUED.MART GOT HIS START MENUDO, A SPANISH-LANGUAGE BOY BAND, THE LATE ‘70S. HE EVENTUALLY BRANCHED OUT TO A SUCCSFUL SOLO REER AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE POP MIC, AS WELL AS ACTG ON-SCREEN AND ONSTAGE, NOTABLY A BROADWAY REVIVAL OF THE MIL EVA. MART ME OUT AS GAY 2010, POSTG A MSAGE ON HIS WEBSE THAT HE WAS “A FORTUNATE HOMOSEXUAL MAN.”IN 2012, MART TOLD VANY FAIR ABOUT HIS CISN TO PUBLICLY E OUT, SAYG THAT “THE PROCS STARTED OUT OF MY NEED TO BE HAPPY. AND TO HAVE SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-RPECT. LIKE SAYG OUT LOUD: ‘THIS IS ME. IT IS PART OF MY NATURE.’ . . . WHEN I ME OUT SO MANY PEOPLE ME UP TO ME AND SAID, ‘THANK YOU. FOR THE FIRST TIME I WAS ABLE TO GIVE MY SON A HUG, SCE HE ME OUT AND SAID THAT HE WAS GAY.’ I DID FOR ME, BUT ALSO HELPS OTHERS.”MART AND YOSEF ANNOUNCED THEIR ENGAGEMENT 2016 AND MARRIED 2018.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRPHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ON HER “SURREAL” JOURNEY FROM FLEABAG TO INDIANA JONTHE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINKASE WICKMAN

In 2010, Ricky Mart had announced himself gay publilly.

RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’

“Many years I dreamt of beg a father, and many, many, many tim I went through this grievg procs of I am gay, I am a closeted gay man, and I’m not gog to be able to be a daddy, ” he said. “Many years I dreamt of beg a father, and many, many, many tim I went through this grievg procs of I am gay, I am a closeted gay man, and I’m not gog to be able to be a daddy, ” he told Out magaze 2020 of his experience before cidg to bee a father wh the help of a surrogate.

Mart me out as gay 2010, postg a msage on his webse that he was “a fortunate homosexual man. For the first time I was able to give my son a hug, sce he me out and said that he was gay. Everyone knows you don't have to be a gay man to know that love is plited.

RICKY MART REVEALS HE IS GAY

" "I got to the place I was fightg as I was wrg my book between sayg, 'Am I gay?

And then I said, 'Rick, you are a very fortunate homosexual man. He me out to his mother, who gave him a big hug, and he had a steady 2000, Barbara Walters unfortably asked him flat-out if he was gay, and he danced around the answer. A later he told Oprah Wey he wasn't bisexual but a happy gay the tease is tellg Mexin magaze Fama!

Unfortunately, jt as he felt the prsure to say he wasn't gay back then, he may feel the prsure to stick to sayg he is gay now.

RICKY MART IS 'DISAPPOTED' BY HIS LACK OF ACTG OFFERS: 'IF IT'S BEE I'M GAY, THAT'S SAD'

"Then, Ricky add, "And I'm sure I'm not the only gay man that felt attractn towards women.

RICKY MART, 49, SHAR HE WAS ' LOVE' WH THE WOMEN HE DATED BEFORE G OUT AS GAY

Ricky Mart opened up about the personal stggle he endured g to terms wh his sexualy while also wantg to bee a a new ver story for Out magaze, the 48-year-old sger said that he had difficulty acceptg that a gay man n also be a dad. “Many years I dreamt of beg a father, and many, many, many tim I went through this grievg procs of I am gay, I am a closeted gay man, and I’m not gog to be able to be a daddy, ” he said of his experience.

“Obvly adoptn is an optn and ’s very betiful, but unfortunately for gay men ’s very difficult to adopt some untri, ” he, who nfirmed his marriage to Jwan Yosef 2018, is father to four kids: tws Valento and Matteo, born 2008, dghter Lucia, 1, and newborn son Renn, 9 four of Mart's children were born via surrogate. NEW YORK — After more than a of dodgg mors and speculatn about his sexual orientatn, Lat sger Ricky Mart has e out of the closet and clared himself a “fortunate homosexual man.

LAT SGER RICKY MART SAYS HE IS GAY

“In 2000, I phed Ricky Mart very hard to adm if he was gay or not, and the way he refed to do ma everyone ci that he was, ” she told the Toronto Star.

You uld say, as many artists have, ‘Y I am gay, ’ or you uld say, ‘No I’m not, ’ or you uld leave , as you are, ambiguo. The sger rpond, “When Ricky Mart, a man whom I admire very much, says whether he’s gay or not, that’s when I will tell you.

I n play gay, I n play straight, I n play a serial killer. They're not playg my mic this untry bee I'm gay? "I don't know if I'm not gettg parts bee I'm gay, " he adms.