Anna Kournikova first met Enrique Iglesias on the set of his video for “Escape” in 2001, playing his love interest—and the parents of three have been a fascinating, very private couple ever since.
You can run, you can hide, but ultimately there’s no escaping Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova’s love.
The Grammy-winning singer and the tennis champ first met in late 2001, when Kournikova played Iglesias’ love interest in the steamy music video for his hit “Escape.” And while there were some things to sort out before they could be together forever…
It was game, set, perfect match.
“She’s beautiful, talented, great tennis player,” Iglesias said appreciatively but nonchalantly about his co-star in a Making the Video feature, adding, “It doesn’t take a good actor to kiss Anna and try to make it believable.”
And so began their tradition of playing coy, though when they started having babies, it was a sign that their life together was going well.
“It’s incredible to watch her be such a great mother,” Iglesias told The Sun in October 2018, when twins Nicholas and Lucy were 10 months old. “It’s incredible to watch a mom do what she does, when a mother’s instinct kicks in.”
Asked whether becoming parents had put a damper on their alone time, the singer informed the tabloid that “the sex has not diminished.”
And daughter Mary was born in January 2020.
At the time, Kournikova added Iglesias to her name on Instagram, sending speculation into overdrive (considering she already had been sporting a wad of sparkly jewelry on that finger for years) that she had married the singer after previously insisting she never planned to walk down the aisle.
Over the years they may have gone from teasing whether or not they were still together to sharing ridiculously adorable photos and videos of their children on Instagram, but they still aren’t ones to overdo it when it comes to dishing the details of their romantic life.
Perhaps when it kicks off with kissing in a video, you feel you’ve given the public enough for awhile.
Though she did share a teaser for Iglesias’ “Subeme la radio” video in February 2017, Kournikova’s Instagram page pre-babies mainly revealed that she was deeply committed to working out and in a serious relationship with her beloved dogs, Max and Jack. Same for Iglesias, whose pre-fatherhood account was devoted to touring, music, fans—and the dogs.
He and Anna respectively wished their canine son Jack a happy birthday on Oct. 9, 2017, two months before their twin humans were born on Dec. 16 without the couple having let on that they were expecting (though they were snapping pictures along the way). To this day, they remain as low-key about their partnership as ever—the dogs still factor prominently—but they make sure to shout each other out on special occasions.
