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

Contents:

• 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 REVEALS HE'S GAY
• RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE CID TO E OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’
• RICKY MART IS A PROUD GAY FATHER — MEET HIS FOUR KIDS BORN VIA SURROGATE
• RICKY MART OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY
• RICKY MART REVEALS HE IS GAY
• RICKY MART ON THE MOMENT HE DECID TO COME OUT AS GAY: ‘I’VE BEEN SUPER HAPPY EVER SCE’

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

”“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. "Am I gay? In 2000, when he was 29, he was asked by Barbara Walters on natnal televisn if he was gay.

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

"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.

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.

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

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?

And then I said, 'Rick, you are a very fortunate homosexual man. Everyone knows you don't have to be a gay man to know that love is plited. 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.

| 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. Comg out was a life-changg event for Ricky Puerto Rin sger discsed how not facg his gay inty took a toll durg the Liv' la Vida Lo Tour, Mart's first major world tour, which ran om 1999 to 2000.

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

Barbara Walters famoly tried to prsure the sger to e out a 2000 terview, a move she later said she 2010, Mart me out as gay blog post on his webse, which referenced subject matter om his then-forthg memoir, Me: Ricky Mart. "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?

A visible gay dad, he is raisg four children wh his hband, artist Jwan Yosef, who he married 2017. The sger vised The Daily Show Wh Trevor Noah and opened up about his own personal stggl wh g out as gay. ' It was people that love me, people that mean well and people that were jt victims of homophobia.

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. “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.

RICKY MART OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY

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. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Sger Ricky Mart clared publicly that he is gay Mart says, "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man" His song "Liv' La Vida Lo" rose to top of mic charts 1999 LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Pop sger Ricky Mart clared publicly this week what he avoid discsg for years: He is gay.

"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man, " Mart wrote on his official Web se. "Mart, who me out as gay 2010, add that 's not about the number of followers, but feelg the same way that he had many years ago "before sharg publicly about my sexual orientatn. 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.

RICKY MART REVEALS HE IS GAY

“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. 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?

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

Now, the Kg of Lat Pop hop to assist the non-prof that remembers the mostly gay and Latx victims who lost their liv what was nsired the most adlit terror attack on Amerin soil after 9/11.