14 DAY TRIAL // We all dread the moment when we have to bring our significant other in front of our parents because it often ends up bad and two very important parts of our life come to a clash. But it's still something you have to do at some point in your life, unless you're Enrique Iglesias.
The Latino singer has chosen his own path and that was not to take his girlfriend to meet his father at all. The problem is that Enrique and his Russian girlfriend Ana Kournikova have been in a relationship for 12 years now and she's never seen Julio once in her life.
Some might find that disturbing, but Julio is totally fine with it. He said in an interview that “It's completely true that I have never met Ana Kournikova. I don't know why. There is no reason. Maybe because I travel a lot, like crazy. And Enrique also has a very strong, extremely independent personality.”
The 70-year-old crooner has also poetically added that “I prefer to look into my kids' eyes and see success instead of shadows.” To some of us that sounds like a dysfunctional family, but the older Iglesias acknowledges that they are not the same as other people.
Apart from Enrique, Julio is the father of Julio Jr., two children he had with his first wife, Isabel Preysler, and five more with his second wife, Miranda Rijnburger. Basically, he says that he doesn't intrude in their lives and accepts the fact that sons want to keep some matters private from their fathers.
“Fathers want to talk with their sons and sons want to talk less than their fathers. We think we know everything and they think we know nothing. And that philosophy is even stronger when the father and son share a profession. But you cannot tell anything to a champion. You cannot teach how to play to a champion and Enrique is a champion,” Julio adds proudly.
However, he does specify that he keeps a close tab on all his children from the shadows, “I don't follow them on Twitter but I know everything about Enrique and Julio. I know where they are, the music they are doing.”
If this all sounds a bit strange to you, don't worry, Julio has planned ahead, “It´s true they usually don't come to see me but I did exactly the same with my dad. But during the last years of my father's life we traveled the world together and I became his friend, more so than ever, so I hope that one day my kids will realize that.”
Maybe they'll get to all meet on Ana and Enrique's wedding day, but that's also not likely to happen anytime soon, as Enrique has made it clear on several occasions that marriage isn't a thing he desires and plans for.