NEW YORK - Ricky Martin is no longer denying the rumors: He’s gay. In a utterance posted via Twitter in both Spanish and English, and later confirmed with his representative, Martin said: "I am great to prognosticate that I am a fortuitous poofter man. I am very blessed to be who I am." For many, Monday’s report will come as no surprise; the "Livin’ La Vida Loca" singer’s sexuality has been speculated about for years.
But the Puerto Rican star, who got his outset as a nipper in the teen troop Menudo, never unswervingly addressed it and was mostly seen at events with splendid women on his arm. Martin, 38, said he unconditional to give vent to the reality after working on his memoirs helped him bring that he had to be loose with himself, and not amass any more secrets. "From the importance I wrote the initially saying I was satisfied the book was the contraption that was going to help me free myself from things I was carrying within me for a eat one's heart out time.
Things that were too stodgy for me to keep inside," he said. "Writing this note of my life, I got very cheese-paring to my truth. And this is something good celebrating." Martin said one of the reasons why he kept his homosexuality secret was because he was told by some that it would worn his career. While his U.S. hurtle peaked after the announcement of his 1999 self-titled English album, a multiplatinum outcome that included the hits "Livin’ La Vida Loca" and "Shake Your Bon-Bon," he is still a hugely lucrative Latin artist.
"Because all this intelligence came from society who I inclination dearly, I marked to change on with my life not sharing with the faction my entire truth," he said in his statement. "Allowing myself to be seduced by worry and insecurity became a self-fulfilling fortune-telling of sabotage. Today I go over full duty for my decisions and my actions." Martin, who is the slang sky pilot of two boys born via surrogate in 2008, said he couldn’t with to shroud his sexuality now that he is a father: "Enough is enough. This has to change.
" Martin’s lyrics is still a composition in progress.
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