Believe it or not, I was just thinking about Anna Kournikova and Enrique Iglesias the other day. My exact thought was, “Hey, I wonder what ever happened to them? Are they still together? Would I have heard about it if they broke up?” Well, now I’m hearing about it. Enrique and Anna have been together (on-and-off?) for 12 years. And now Page Six says that they are “on the rocks”. Call me crazy, but they’ve split up several times before, right? But they always got back together and now it’s 12 years later and…?
The romance between Russian tennis beauty Anna Kournikova and Enrique Iglesias is “on the rocks” after 12 years, sources exclusively tell Page Six.
We’re told the couple have hit a rough patch because the singer — son of legendary Spanish crooner and international ladies’ man Julio Iglesias — isn’t rushing into marriage despite more than a decade with the beautiful blond former pro court star.
A source tells us, “Anna is getting tired of waiting for him to decide if he wants to marry her or not. They’ve been together for so long, she feels like it’s never going to happen. She is ready to move on.”
But the source added, “This issue has come up before, and they have managed to smooth things over and get back together. Time will tell.”
Despite rumors in May that 38-year-old Iglesias and 32-year-old Kournikova were imminently due to tie the knot, his management team insisted that they have “no intention” to marry in the near future.
Last year, the singer was forced to deny they had secretly wed after calling Kournikova his wife, in Russian, while at a gig in her native country.
He said: “It was just meant to be sweet . . . I honestly didn’t mean to confuse people. I thought it’d be easier for the audience to understand than if I said she was my girl.”
Iglesias also said he always wanted to keep their relationship under wraps — telling VH1’s “Behind the Music,” “I just want it to be special, and the only way to make sure it’s special is by just making it as private as possible. And if you talk about those things that are special to you and that are close to your heart, it’s not the same anymore.”
But another source familiar with the singer told us, “There have been other times when people have speculated there are issues between them. Don’t jump to any conclusions.”
A spokeswoman for Kournikova didn’t get back to us by deadline, and reps for Iglesias declined to comment.
Twelve years is a long time to wait (“Waity”) for that ring. Who would have thought that Anna Kournikova could out-Waity the Chief Waity-ier herself, Duchess Kate? My generous side wants to give Anna the benefit of the doubt and say that after 12 years, she’s fine without the ring. Some girls just don’t care that much about “getting the ring” especially if they have other stuff going on in their lives. But that’s just it – what is Anna doing? How is she spending her time? Is she just “Enrique’s girlfriend” at this point? If that’s the case, she could make an argument for common-law marriage at this point.
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They’re STILL together??!!
Also, he’s 38??!!
Jesus, I feel old now. LOL
“Also, he’s 38??!!
Jesus, I feel old now.”
My first thought EXACTLY. I actually thought they were married.
Also, she got implants huh?
My dear 37 yr old girlfriend who is celebrating career success, having worked 8 yrs at a major international organization with traveling opportunities that have taken her all over the globe is now recovering from a break up from a 15 yr relationship!!! I am married and have only been in a relationship with my husband for 4 yrs. While I love my husband, I can see how sometimes being married or in a serious relationship means you have to “choose”. I work for the same organization but I know that being married complicates advancement, esp. since getting ahead means being dedicated to your job in a way that you don’t turn down invitations to schmooze or travel, etc. Until now, my gf was always able to work long hours and jump on the next plane for work, while neglecting to manage her relationship, spend time with her family and resolve housing issues, etc. I write all this to say, there is no simple formula for happiness. But a big part of the invitation is to thine own self be true. You will always have pressure from all sides related to your career, education, marital status, etc. Better to know your own values, understanding self fulfillment so that you can live and maybe even celebrate your choices.
. Justin Theroux and Heidi Bivens if she isn’t careful. If she wants marriage and babies, walk. If she’s cool with it, it’s no one’s business. She has her own money. She’s still young and beautiful and independent enough financially to have her pick of men instead of waiting around for him.
I agree.
If she wants marriage and children then she’s stayed with him way too long. He’s not going to commit. She’s wasted enough time. I thought this half a dozen years ago and was amazed to learn she was still hanging around waiting for him. After a couple of years she should have moved on, never mind 12.
Wait — I thought he tried proposing to her before and she said no?
This is also the rumor that I kept hearing. She is the one that apparently didn’t want to get married.
Sounds like she does want that ring. His management is kind of rude about saying it’s not going to happen.
If you’ve been waiting 12 years and he hasn’t given a ring of some kind, then move on. I understand not everyone wants to get married. But it sounds like she does, and that’s a problem. Twelve years is a long time to wait, waiting another twelve years would be a huge mistake.
I really like them both… but 12yrs? Come on.. It’s time to pony up & make a commitment. If they do get engaged, that may last another 12yrs? I’m sure she’s like most young women & wants a husband and family? Maybe not?
*eyeroll* yeah sure.
I’m going to double that eye roll.
make it a triple.
i love that ‘waity’ and ‘waity-ing’ is now a thing. Who knew Kate’s contribution to pop culture would be this! LOL.
Spot on 🙂
The concept is degrading to women.
Well, no one claimed that Waity Katie was the pride of women everywhere.
@Anne
You’re missing the point. When you participate in this type of ridicule you continue to perpetuate myths about women. These myths get into the public consciousness. Because women, sadly, don’t get the benefit of being viewed as individuals by society in general.
This hurts women particularly in the workplace. This is why women are passed over for promotions, paid less, why some companies look for ways to fire pregnant women or new mother.
So while it may seem harmless to ridicule Kate ( though why people care about whether she was waiting or not I will never understand) the consequences of participating in this, go beyond just making her as an individual look bad.
Why can’t people keep their toes in their shoes?
Dangling in the wind ain’t a good look.
Word. But then she would have to buy the right size shoes.
But then they wouldn’t be FREE!
I can’t not notice it. Who lets a customer walk out of a shop in those? It does nothing for either the feet or the shoes.
@Leigh, are they singing ‘Born Free’ and dreaming of lions?
Those mags are so demeaning to women– implying all the time, that women are waity, needy, baby sick nobodies who have nothing more to look forward to than to be some man’s barefoot and pregnant wife.
PUHLEASE. Get with the times, dammit!! Stop using coincidental breakups or folds in the midsection of a womans dress to rub in outdated stereotypes!
i agree with u in general, but it’s funny how often this stereotype is true). For ex., in Eastern Europe and Russia its very valid and common. I dont know how true it is for US, though. I guess women there are more into career than here 🙂
Sure. because it´s impossible to be something other than a) the ego-career woman or b) the wifey
i guees it has a lot to do with financial freedom, sort of. Lets say, lots of women in the east are tied to some medium-crappy monotonic job from 8 to 6. In this position there r not so much time and energy for other interests. So, where to find meaning? a)in focusing on the husband and home stuff, b) focusing on the job.
but , surely , personal qualities is a factor too)
Taking offense over nothing. Sheesh. Different cultures obviously and different language. Lana68 is doing her best in getting her point across and yet you’re being nitpicky. Feed into the stereotype some more please. Show that us women get so offended by what is true. I suppose if you’re not a family woman or a career woman (oh hey that means you work at least one day a week right?) then you’re a freeloader! Hey I can do this whole nitpick stereotype thing too.
Exactly. 32 years old? She’s borderline spinster. This could be it for her.
Companies just gave her endorsements and Elle wanted her to write a monthly health column because she was with Enrique.
Deep down all women want is to be married because that’s all there is for us. It’s not like we can vote, or work, or contribute at all to society unless we’re married or engaged-Then we’ve really won.
I assume this is sarcasm but it’s also dismissing women who choose love, children and family as mere conformists instead of actual people making a choice. It’s fine to rebel against the dominant paradigm and shake an angry fist at patriarchy and “the Man” but we can also be ourselves and be romantics if we want to be.
THIS.
If marriage or children was such a big issue for either of them, they would have done it by now or broken up. The idea that all women deep down are pining for a ring – and willing to wait 12 unhappy/unfulfilled years for it – is so antiquated and insulting.
edited to add: just to clarify, I don’t think it is stupid for women to want a committed life partner and a family, but the idea that until that happens every women is sitting around passively miserable in the ‘waity’ role for someone to deem her worthy of a ring is stupid and insulting.
Uhh thank you, my man and I have been together 8 years and are expecting our first baby in 2 months but the only thing everyone wants to fixate on is why we’re not married!! Not all women need or want a ring
EXACTLY. Any woman who isn’t married and pregnant is automatically desperate. So f*cking tired of this outdated narrative being shoved down our throats.
Exactly. I’m 34, not married, no children. Honestly, if all I wanted was to be married, I would be. But I wanted to travel the world, live on four different continents, move every two years and then I decided at 30 to go to grad school and embark on a whole new career. I like the idea of partnership and being a mother, but thus far I haven’t been willing to pursue it with the same interest and passion that I pursue everything else. I feel like my life has been really interesting, adventurous and full, but I am CONSTANTLY reduced to, “Not married? How sad for you.” Pisses me off!!
34, not married, and no kids here too. *high-fives*
You’re reading my mind with your whole post.
Let’s be friends.
Also, you might find this article interesting, it really resonated with me: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176281/Generation-refuse-grow-No-mortgage-No-marriage-No-children-No-career-plan-Like-30-somethings-Marianne-Power-admits-shes-.html
the most important thing is not to live in delusion. It’s completely your choise, whether u party or work or settle for some nice stable guy to marry or whatever. But in any case, we r not young forever! And it might be too late to have kids or harder to find a partner later in life. And not everyone can handle the solitude well. And it applies to both men and women.
Nobody’s living in “delusion” and it’s exactly that kind of patronizing assumption so common in our society’s view of single women that REALLY grates on my nerves.
Note how the choices you give are “work” or “party” or “marry a nice stable guy”, not “have a lasting, fulfilling career” or “travel the world and enjoy life to it’s fullest” or “marry the guy who you think is ‘the one’ who but actually ends up divorcing your ass 5 years later and leaving you with 2 toddlers and no support”. Not to mention the fact that none of the aforementioned options are mutually exclusive.
The point is that there are many, MANY different paths in life, and NONE guarantee happiness as a standard outcome, as happiness is completely subjective. Your comment insinuates that marriage to a “stable man” is somehow the path to a happy life and that older women are incapable of finding companionship or someone to love them (what about older men??). That’s an incredibly sad (and damaging) view of women as a whole.
Look, I’m not trying to come down really hard on you-it’s not personal, just a general statement directed towards people who perpetuate this antiquated kind of thinking—I’m just tired of these sorts of comments. I don’t take it upon myself to constantly voice my opinion about people getting married and breeding (even though it’s not for me) because it’s none of my business how they chose to live their lives.
It is like you said in the beginning of your comment: a personal CHOICE and nobody but MYSELF needs to have an opinion about my life or concern-troll about my future.
hey, i didnt mean to be patronizing at all, haha)) I’m actually very much on your side – I dont have plan for the future, i’m happily single, and totally agree about subjectivness of happiness. So, my comment was rather thinking out loud… I’m not assuming anybody delusional,or rather i’m trying to make sure that we r not 🙂
Actually the point i was trying to make is this: as long as we r realistic, whatever we do is fine for us. If i know that i might be childless or unmarried all my life, and i’m relaxed and fine about that – than good for me! But some ppl , for ex, want all these things, but postpone them in future, u know? like, they think they have lots of time to do all that later, and it may be a mistake… So, i’m still figuring out, if im the first or the second ))
@TheOriginalKitten: Thanks for that article link- really resonated!
There are so many of us now who aren’t married-with-kids-and-a-mortgage at 34 (or 35, 36, 37 etc.) that I don’t think it’s as shockingly rare as people seem to think. Although I might have a skewed viewpoint, since my friends who do those things generally fade back into quarterly phone calls/dinner and are replaced by new friends with the same amount of free time as I have. So in my world, there are tons of happily single women in their 30s wandering around!
For some reason I thought they were already married. He’s still hot as ever. Oh Lord I just had a flasback of Jennifer Love-Hewitt in his video for Hero.
I have a friend who’s been dating this loser for almost 10 years. After realizing he was lazy, didn’t care to become a better, mote productive man and was taking her for granted by never proposing, she broke up with him. The same week, her younger sister got engaged with a man she had been dating for 7 months. She was devastated. The entire family acted like dicks, actually. Instead of being happy for her, they were all angry that dumbass pricess over there had dated a loser for nearly a decade for nothing and this one got a man to propose in less than a year. It was sad. That girl couldn’t properly enjoy her engagement and my friend was insanely jealous and bitter. So much, that she took the loser back. And guess what? No proposal in sight.
Guys like those don’t want to commit. When a guy adores you, he will not let you go and leave you single for anyone else to take. If he knows you want marriage and babies, he needs to step up and grow up, or let you find the man who will give you all of that.
Oh God, that’s so sad. Your friend’s sister has every right to be happy! I hope she stays strong with her fiancé…
wouldn´t it be so much worse to be eventually married to the lazy loser? i can´t believe some of the comments- like any guy instantly becomes wonderful if he is willing to marry. come on! it is so sad to assume that in the end all women want is a husband. and empowering to men i might add.
Ugh, I feel bad for your friend’s sister. How is it the sister’s fault that her sister is an idiot? I mean, really? One thing I love about my family is that they will tell you like it is. I guarantee you, if that had been my sister, my mom would’ve pulled her aside and told her if she was going to act like a three year old, then she could go act like a three year old somewhere else.
I mean who does that? I can see why she spent 10 years with a guy who wasn’t going to marry her AND do nothing to contribute–her family supported it. Because I guarantee my mom would’ve been able to tell me that in the first year, let alone the ten years she spent with him.
Dang, I had forgotten about these two!
Hmm, I remember hearing stories years ago that it was indeed Enrique who wanted to get married and Anna didn’t.
But of course it always HAS to be the woman who’s sitting at home waiting for the ring while the man dreads the idea of marriage.
She was married once, maybe she doesn’t wanna be married again, who knows.
I was about to say that she was never married but I do remember she was married for a short time to a hockey player when she was very young and he was quite a bit older. So, yeah, you might be right about that or maybe they were never divorced officially. That marriage was very strange.
Honestly, that’s what I think. 12 years with someone is enough to make a person think, huh, maybe she doesn’t care.
But you never know. There’s way too many clueless women out there. Gosh, it scares me to be hopelessly in love with a Douche Lord.
Anna K was never a tennis “star” she was a star off the court and she is still doing endorsements and commercials for products, all over the world. When she retired from tennis she was estimated to be worth $32M and she’s probably worth more than that now. She has said, many times, that she doesn’t need to be married. I think it’s demeaning to call her “waity” when she has a career and her own money and fame. She must be in love with this man because she has no other reason to stay with him. Not every woman needs or wants to get married and/or make babies.
Well said!
She is young, rich and beautiful. She will be fine.
… not to support anna on the court but
she was a tennis star too. people forget how good she was before her injuries led to major doubts in her mindset (wen it came to winning)
but definitely she transcended…
Anna never won a singles tournament in her entire career and the doubles tournaments she won were with Martina Hingis. (I could probably win a doubles tournament with Martina Hingis as my partner!!) So, no, Anna was never a tennis “star” but she was a tennis “celebrity.”
She was ranked no. 8 in 2000 and while she did not win a WTA title she did have some very good results over the course of her short career. Her looks certainly catapulted her to celebrity stardom but she was a tennis star.
It’s 2013 but the game is still “the girl wants to get a man to propose to her”? Sigh.
Lol what world do you live in? Women are still being shamed and blamed for everything. Doesn’t matter if it’s ~2013~. Things have barely changed. We don’t make as much money as men do, we still need to explain what rape is and why it’s not a woman’s fault, we still need to remind people that we have reproductive rights and our body is our own, and girls are still being bullied for sexual activity, consensual or not. Things have not changed at all, my dear. You will not see the day when women are not shamed for being unmarried. Maybe not even your grandkids will.
Waity-ing can be hard, unrewarding, depressing, lonely WORK, not always simply bon bon eating ‘retirement’.
Some WAITYers, I would reckon, got into relationships (that they hope/hoped would lead to marriage), but situations develop, life happens, and sometimes getting married is re-prioritized in a person’s goal list – other tasks and choices take precedence, and maybe, just maybe, someone can be focusing on things that matter to them as much as or even more than getting married, while still having to deal with the pros and cons that go with any and all relationships, and 9 years can go by as fast as anything, with no ring/proposal, due to a number of factors. Could be his dad left his mom when he was 4 for his secretary and then married her and had a new family, and although he loves you A LOT, his own issues (coupled with yours, and life, etc) may find folks ENDLESSLY waity-ing, feeling as if they are in a catch 22. What is the better choice in such a situation? Put the foot down?, go ultimatum style?, demand proposals and rings?, while worried that those wants can upset the family dynamic already in place, etc. It is a hard choice, for sure.
It is pretty dark living in the heavy shade being thrown to WAITY-ers, just sayin’. Folks can be WAITY-ing WHILE being hard working and productive members of society. I am confused with the idea/attitude that all WAITY-ers are golddigging layabouts. Why are Waity-ers bad, or wrong? Are we saying that Waity-ers have less value than someone who isn’t “waiting”? Isn’t that the same as the mommy shaming brigade? Thoughts welcomed
they were kind of like the first celeb couple i read about. thats how old i am 😀
cool that they are still together. i doubt this story. they have always been low key and i dont think the gossip mags would know something like that from them.
If she’s really waiting for the ring, then I must say she has such GREAT patience. I mean, not only she’s been waiting for 12 years, but Enrique is always surrounded by young and hot girls. I’m a jealous person so I never really get those ladies who are okay with their celeb boyfriends/husbands doing all the hot scenes in music videos/movies.
The notion that women are waiting for a ring is offensive and sets women back. Some women might be. But the reality is if you really want marriage then you don’t stay in a relationship that long. There are plenty of couples who are long term and not married. Some have children, some don’t. But I seriously doubt that every long term unmarried straight couple has a woman who is desperate to marry.
This is such a strange story – no idea if it’s true, really, but I can’t imagine that after 12 years anyone is still “waiting for a ring” right? I feel like it’s kind of demeaning to say that.
I used to live in Miami and ran in the same circles as these two. I knew Enrique a little but was closer with other members of his family. Enrique was always more private, so you might see him at dinner parties, but rarely in the clubs. This was a million years ago – so grain of salt with everything here 😉
At the time, Anna and Enrique were living together and happy. Enrique and Julio Jr. were very clear about not wanting to ever be married. Their father had just had a new baby and their GRANDfather had just had a new baby as well… let’s just say they didn’t have a great example of marriage/family life.
So I’m shading this story with my limited and dated knowledge to basically say – I don’t think she’s been waiting… some people just are happy together without getting married. But that doesn’t make for great gossip, lol!
I remember the story of the father (Julio? the singer) who had a very young girlfriend and they had several small children. There always seem to be photo spreads of them and the children in Hello and Hola mag and the woman had always just had another baby. Did they ever marry? And I do remember the two boys saying they didn’t want to get married, ever. At the time Enrique was living with Anna and they seemed happy together. So, I also call bogus on this story.
I think its true.
Anna constantly wears a ring on *that* finger and was evasive in interviews in London on the question of marriage.
Why bother or care if it does not interest you?
Probably she did not want to scare Enhrique off so she played it safe. But Anna’s being open about wanting marriage and a family
I wouldn’t put it past them to actually be married already. She did the same thing with Sergei Fedorov (and I think she was still underage!) and he was so into her it threw off his game! It didn’t come out until a lot later that the 2 of them had in fact married.
She was 19 or 20 when she married Fedorov in 2001. I was an avid tennis fan at that time and I clearly remember a huge emerald cut diamond and a wedding band that she wore while playing and still denying a marriage. She even said ‘Sergei wishes’ in response to a reporter once. Fedorov is 11 years older and therefore too old to be marrying someone that young so I don’t have a lot of sympathy for him.
They were together for a pretty long time (which definitely did start when she was underage, around 15). The hard part is that she’s pretty much refused to actually confirm anything about her personal life – did she ever even admit to marrying Fedorov? She’s an odd woman, though an awful lot tougher than most gave her credit for.
Yes, she was very young when they began dating and they broke up a lot and she dated others and even became engaged to Fedorov’s teammate Bure when she was 18.
She never admitted to the marriage although Fedorov has.
She went to the US as a young women to train and was accompanied by her mother who is a bit of a nut. Her father stayed in Russia. No doubt she was the family breadwinner from a young age. I think that has made Anna tough and private.
Legal nerd here. One of the elements for common law marriage is that both parties must hold each other out to the public as the other’s spouse. Unless Enrique refers to Anna as his wife/partner/spouse and not merely his longtime lover/girlfriend, a court won’t find that they were CL married.
Is Fla even a common law state?
No, it isn’t a common law marriage state. They’ll recognize common law marriages from other states that do allow them, but it doesn’t exist under Florida law for Florida residents.
OMG Kaiser this is nuts!!! For some reason this morning I thought of that video they did for Hero and I wondered if they were still a thing.
BIZARRE.
edit: Ok I see above that it was actually JLove in that video not Anna. Either way, I still thought of them randomly this morning for no reason.
I was with my husband for 14 years before we got married. We’ve been married now for three years. I honestly never cared about a ring or marriage. In fact, I did not ever want an engagement ring. We decided to get married one day after some really great sex (ha! but hey…it *was* after 14 years together), got the license, got some super cheap tungsten wedding bands (and we have plenty of money as we’re both professionals with good incomes…it wasn’t because we’re poor), and got married a week later on Halloween on the beached a couple minutes walk from our house dressed up as pirates with only the officiant (who dressed as Al Capone), his dog (dressed as a flower child..er..dog), and our kids there (they were 14 then). It was perfect and I’d not change a thing. I had and have no desire for a diamond ring. Nor was I “waity.” We casually discussed marriage over the years, but it just wasn’t important. We were married as far as we were concerned, just not with the scrap of paper. I was happy to share our lives with each other and just be together. 🙂 Just my take. Not every woman wants “the ring” and it’s demeaning to suggest that they do.
Thats really sweet! Thanks for sharing your story.
I think they’re more likely to be in conflict about whether or not to have kids in the near future. Anna — assuming she wants them, that is — is now in her 30s, so time starts to become an issue.
As for marriage, that’s a bit of an outdated concept these days. As long as both people feel loved and respected, the piece of paper is optional, IMO. Plus, let’s face it, half of all marriages end in divorce and I’m sure the stats are even worse for celebrity marriages so I can see why one, or both of them, would be reluctant to tie the knot.
Awww I love your story. Thanks for sharing!
I don’t think anyone waits for 12 years for a ring, I think by now she would be fine with however their relationship may be. Waity Kate waited as long as she did because how do you trump someone who is the future king of England? You don’t.
Nobody seems to remember that Anna has already been married and divorced. From Federov who was a Detriot Red Wings hockey player.
Maybe she is not hopping to get married because she is a divorcee?
I was under the impression that Enrique was a lot hotter than this–maybe I’ve been looking at the wrong CD cases…
I thought they were already married. Huh.
She’s had a big, fat ring for a long time. In fact, she’s had a few of them over the years. Just no marriage, or maybe there was a marriage and it was hush hush? I think this is a non-story, just a slow news day. Either way, this couple continues to be so hot and fabulous.
I don’t blame her. I’d leave after two years without a ring or at least a promise of marriage.
Haha, when I first saw this post I thought she was Helen Mirren at first glance….whoa!
I find the article and the accompanying analysis kind of out dated. Why are we fixating on marriage and if she has the ring or not? Or why she hasn’t gotten it?
There has got to be better gossip than this out there!
I don’t blame her for being miffed. This relationship is the closet thing she’s had to a career…
Not all women wants to get married or have babies…
YES!
umm…hang on a sec, I SWEAR a few years ago the papers called her his “fiance” and that they were engaged.
How odd. I mean, yeck – the woman is drop dead gorgeous. If he won’t commit to her, he won’t commit to anybody. A bit like the Lewis Hamilton situation. What the hell is wrong with these blokes. Anna is right to have her pride and want it to come from him, too many desperate women try to “force” the marriage and live to regret it later when out of a secret resentment for that forced hand he cheats or breaks it off. The dirtiest of low life hoes try to get pregnant as some sick scheme to trap the poor dude, and end up with fatherless children. So yeah at least Anna is holding her dignity here.
She can do better. In all honesty. That girl is mega hot.
This will be one of those situations where they file for divorce in a few years and we find out they have been married all along lol
Walk Girl, walk that walk.