Becoming a big Hollywood star has not been easy for Colombian Sofia Vergara, who has had to fight hard to reach the pinnacle of success.
The renowned star of Modern Family, Sofia Vergara, Seems to live the dream of many: she is a successful actress, and millionaire, is happily married to Joe Manganiello and has a family that loves and supports her in everything. However, to achieve all this he has had to travel a path full of pain and displeasure.
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According to an Infobae publication, his first work in the United States was in 1995 on the ‘Out of Series’ program. However, the beginning of his fruitful career was clouded in 1998 by the murder of his older brother, Rafael, in Barranquilla, Colombia. After that, Sofia took her family to live with her in Miami.
Manolo González is the only child of the actress, product of his first marriage. photo Archive
In love she did not do very well, as she married at 18, was a mother at 20 and a year after divorcing her husband Jose Gonzalez. After arriving in Florida it was known that he had an affair with Enrique Iglesias, and then fell in love with the owner of several clubs in Miami who was also linked to a mafia.
To make matters worse, it was also said that the actress had a relationship with Andrés Lopéz Lopéz, the ex-Colombian drug lord author of the book “The Toads Poster”. Of course, she denied such romance. She later began a romance with Nick Loeb, with whom she ended up in a legal battle still in force, because she intends to destroy the embryos that froze when they were together, Infobae details. Finally, Sofia found the loving stability next to the actor Joe Manganiello, Whom she married in 2015.
In 2015, Sofia married actor Joe Manganiello. photo Archive
However, success and fame cost her a lot of work, due to the strong Colombian accent that characterizes her. “You can’t compare the opportunities that an actress with an American accent has. When she gets 10 scripts a week, I get 2 a month,” she revealed in 2010 to The Hollywood Reporter.
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But Sofia has never given up and has worked hard at every opportunity that has come her way, as with her role as Gloria Prim in the “Modern Family” series, In his appearances as a juror on “America ‘s Got Talent” and other advertising contracts. Thanks to all this, she became the highest paid actress of 2020, ahead of Angelina Jolie and Gal Gadot.