Becoming a big Hollywood star has not been easy for Colombian Sofía Vergara, who has had to fight hard to get to the top of success.
The recognized star of Modern Family, Sofia Vergara, seems to be living the dream of many: she is a successful actress and a millionaire, she is happily married to Joe Manganiello and has a family that loves and supports her in everything. To achieve all this, however, he had to travel a path of pain and disappointment.
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According to a publication by Infobae, his first job in the United States was done in 1995 on the program ‘Fuera de serie’. However, the beginning of his prolific career was marred in 1998 by the murder of his older brother Rafael in Barranquilla, Colombia. After that, Sofía took her family to live with her in Miami.
Manolo González is the actress’s only son, the product of her first marriage. Photo archive
In love she didn’t do very well either, because she got married at the age of 18, became a mother at the age of 20 and a year after she divorced her husband José González. After arriving in Florida, it was learned that he was having an affair with Enrique Iglesias, and then having an affair with the owner of several Miami clubhouses, who was also linked to a mob.
As if that were not enough, the actress was also said to be in a relationship with Andrés Lopéz Lopéz, the former Colombian drug lord, author of the book ‘El cartel de los sapos’. Of course she denied such an affair. She later started an affair with Nick Loeb, with whom she ended up in a still-ongoing legal battle because she plans to destroy the embryos they had frozen while they were together, Infobae explains. Finally, Sofía found stability in the actor’s love Joe Manganiello, whom he married in 2015.
In 2015 Sofia married actor Joe Manganiello. Photo archive
However, success and fame have cost her a lot of work, because of the strong Colombian accent that characterizes her. “You can’t compare the opportunities an actress with an American accent has. If I get 10 scripts a week, I get two a month, ”he revealed to The Hollywood Reporter in 2010.
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But Sofía never gave up and worked hard at every opportunity that came up, such as with her role as Gloria Delgado in the series “Modern Family”, in his participation as a jury 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.