Breakup is amicable, reports in the US weeklies claim

Mar 9, 2012 09:41 GMT  ·  By

Stunning Eva Longoria is single once more. The “Desperate Housewives” star is said to have ended her whirlwind romance with younger Eduardo Cruz, Penelope Cruz's brother.

Though they're usually inseparable, Eva and Eduardo have not been photographed together in quite some time.

Us Weekly reports that this is because they're not a couple anymore, having decided amicably to part ways because the relationship was simply not working anymore.

“It was a mutual decision. They are staying friends. She's focusing on work and the end of Desperate Housewives,” an unnamed but reportedly reliable source says for the celebrity publication.

No one seems to know why the two decided to end their romance, but word in the blogosphere has it that the age gap might have had something to do with it.

Oddly enough, in a recent interview, when speaking about her life post-divorce, Eva came very close to saying the L-word in reference to Eduardo and how he restored her faith in love.

Love did not work with that person [Tony Parker]. But it can work with another. The only thing I will say is I was very lucky to find Edu,” the actress told Vanity Fair not long ago.

Eva and Eduardo met through Eva's good friend (and his sister) Penelope Cruz. Rumors of a budding romance immediately emerged online, though, for a while, they tried their best to keep them under control.

In February 2011, they first stepped out in public as a couple, thus confirming reports in the tabloid press. Shortly, they were inseparable.

Just months into the romance, Eduardo made a very public and permanent declaration of love to Eva by getting her name tattooed on his arm.

She, on the other hand, was still trying to remove the ink on her body that reminded her of her marriage to Tony Parker, which ended in quite a media uproar with allegations of cheating.