A Columbian-born movie star Sofia Vergara is one of the highest-paid sitcom actresses.
For the last two decades, she managed to earn millions of dollars and win dozens of prestigious
awards.
Her wax copies are kept in Madame Tussauds museum and her name can be easily found on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sofia was welcomed in 1972 and her exceptional beauty could be noticed since early years.
At the age of 17 she started pursuing modeling career, having appeared in a Pepsi commercial.
Then she signed a contract with a Spanish channel Univision and worked there as a TV
host.
In late 1990s Vergara moved to the US in a hope to build a successful acting career.
And that’s exactly what happened due to her charm, beauty and acting gift!
Her first minor role was in Baywatch.
Then she appeared with a major role in Big Trouble of 2002.
However, she rose to prominence thanks to her character in Modern Family TV series.
Apart from a super successful acting and modeling career, Vergara can also boast of her own
line of jeans.
In addition to all that, she is a caring mother and a loving wife.
The celebrity’s father Julio ran a cattle rancho.
He always wanted Sofia to be a dentist and she even studied this profession at a college
for three years but realized that it wasn’t her cup of tea.
In 2007 Julio had a stroke that unfortunately, resulted in coma.
He passed away two years later, aged 61.
The mother’s name is Margarita and in a marriage with Julio she gave birth to 4 kids.
She was a housewife, who took care of children.
In 1992 she divorced Julio and a few years later moved to America from Columbia to be
closer to her stellar daughter.
The actress has three blood siblings.
A brother Rafael was born in circa 1970 and was the firstborn in a family.
In 1994 he was kidnapped and the family had to pay the ransom to save him.
Two years later after this situation, there was another attempt of his kidnapping during
which he was shot.
According to some rumors, it happened because Rafael had an affair with some gangster’s
girlfriend.
Despite the fact that he died at a quite young age of just 26, he was a dad to a baby-girl
with his then girlfriend Claudia Renteria.
Veronica is a younger sister to the celebrity, who was delivered in 1976.
She is a very talented singer and a mother of two kids.
In one of the interviews, Veronica shared that Sofia helped her to start a professional
career in the entertainment business.
Julio is a brother who was welcomed in 1977.
After Rafael’s death, he started having problems with alcohol and drugs.
He was arrested for drugs possession for over 30 times and deported from America.
The family also includes an adopted sister named Sandra, who was born in 1988.
She is Sofia’s cousin, who was adopted by Margarita, as the girl’s biological mother
couldn’t take care of her due to some emotional problems.
Sandra is a model and an actress.
Coming closer to Vergara’s personal life, she was married twice with Joe Gonzalez being
her first spouse.
They met each other in a college in 1987 and in 1991 tied the knot officially.
A year later they became parents to a baby-boy.
However, in 1993 they divorced.
Since 2010 and up till 2014 the actress had been in a relationship with Nick Loeb, who
is an entrepreneur.
The couple got engaged in 2012 but two years later their ways parted.
They say that Loeb is still in love with Sofia and is even obsessed with her.
In 2015 a handsome actor Joe Manganiello walked Sofia down the aisle.
The two love birds began dating in 2014 and six months later, Joe proposed.
They have been living happily together till present moment.
The movie star has a son Manolo, who was born in 1992 with the first husband Gonzalez.
He deals with acting, modeling and directing.
That’s why he can be frequently seen accompanying his mom to various public events.