\u201cWe have made the difficult decision to divorce,\u201d the couple said in a joint statement to Page Six<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAs two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.\u201d Days later, Joe filed<\/a> for divorce, citing \u201cirreconcilable differences.\u201d<\/p>\n According to court documents obtained by HollywoodLife<\/em><\/strong>, they had a prenup in place. Both agreed to retain their individual assets and cover their own legal fees. Sources close to the couple told Page Six<\/em> the split was largely due to differing views on expanding their family. Joe reportedly wanted children, while Sof\u00eda was not interested.<\/p>\n Below, learn more about Sof\u00eda\u2019s two ex-husbands and the marriages she shared with each of them.<\/p>\n Sofia and Joe first met through her former co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson<\/strong>, during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2014. At the time, the former was engaged to Nick Loeb<\/strong>, but the two split a few weeks after the event. Joe reflected on how captivated he was by Sofia at the event, in an interview shortly after.<\/p>\n “There was a picture someone snapped at the White House Correspondents’ dinner where they\u00a0caught me looking at Sofia Vergara’s butt,” he explained<\/a>. “When you talk about being manipulated, that’s what I’m talking about. It’s like a moment of Zen. There is nothing in my brain. If only I could meditate that well. I don’t go after other people’s women. She’s got a guy. If she was single, I would be like, poof!”<\/p>\n Once word of Sofia and Nick’s split got around, Joe made his move by asking Jesse to ask Sofia for her phone number, and although she felt she wasn’t ready to date at the time, he eventually won her over. “When she broke up with her fianc\u00e9 at the time, Joe \u2014 like, immediately, the moment it was out in the world \u2014 called me and was, like: ‘I need her number.’ And then I called Sofia and I was, like, ‘Can I give Joe your number?’ And she was, like, ‘Ay, no!’ … but like, wanting me to give the number: ‘Oh no, you go ahead, okay, okay.’ And so I did the number exchange and he took over from there,” Jesse said about the moment during an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n The soon-to-be lovebirds went on their first date in 2014. The occasion took place in New Orleans, LA, where Sofia was filming Hot Pursuit<\/em> at the time. “I said, ‘I’m coming to New Orleans. If you’re not available, I’m just gonna do some sightseeing, but I’m gonna be there and if you’re free\u00a0I can take you out,’ ” Joe recalled on The Jess Cagle Show<\/em>. “She said, ‘You’re crazy.’ I said, ‘I’ll see you next week.’ ”<\/p>\n The relationship was confirmed to the world in Aug. 2014, when Sofia spoke highly of her new beau. “You know I’m just having a great time and it’s a special time in my life and I’m trying not to think too much about it. It’s something very new so we will see what happens,” she said to Extra<\/em><\/a>, before adding that she introduced to Joe to her family in Miami, FL. When asked if she approved of him, she asked, “What is there not to approve of?”<\/p>\n Sofia and Joe moved in together by Nov. 2014 and were engaged in Dec. 2014, after he proposed. They married on Nov. 22, 2015 in front of family and friends at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, FL. Sofia took to Instagram<\/a> to share a gorgeous wedding photo<\/a> of them at the altar. “Goodnight. Gracias,” she captioned the post.<\/p>\n They went on to make their red carpet debut as a married couple in Dec. 2015 at the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens\u00a0<\/em>and attended multiple other events together throughout their years together. When gushing over his wife in 2020, Joe said it didn’t take long to know he could “trust” her.<\/p>\n “I knew pretty quickly that I could trust her, and she knew pretty quickly that she could trust me,” he told PEOPLE<\/em><\/a> in 2020. “And we’re both the kind of people who are capable of putting the other person ahead of ourselves. I was capable of putting her wishes ahead of mine, whatever they were, and she was capable of doing the same. Once you have that, you don’t let go of it.”<\/p>\n Sofia and Joe officially announced their split in July 2023, and a source told Page Six<\/em> that they had been “growing apart” before they made the difficult decision to go their separate ways. \u201cSof\u00eda and Joe have been growing apart for a while now and are taking some distance from each other to contemplate their future,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n A post shared by Manolo (@manologonzalezvergara)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nJoe Manganiello<\/h2>\n
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