Ricky’s ‘nerve-wracking proposal’ for same-sex partner

Jwan Yosef, left, and Ricky Martin arrive at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Over a year after Ricky Martin announced his engagement to partner, Jwan Yosef, the pop star revealed that he’s now a married man.

“I’m a husband, but we’re doing a heavy party in a couple of months. We exchanged vows…signed all the papers that we needed to sign—prenups and everything,” he told E! News in a recent interview.

Jwan is a conceptual artist; Ricky, an avid collector.

“I saw his art and I went crazy because I really love what he does. Really original. Then, I contacted him. I had no idea what he looked like. Then I saw him, and I was like, yeah. And we got engaged,” Ricky said in an earlier interview with Ellen DeGeneres.

The proposal, the “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer recalled, was one of the most nerve-wracking moments of his life.

“I got on my knees, took out the little metal box—I just had it in a little velvet pouch—but, instead of saying ‘Would you marry me?’ I said, ‘I got you something!’ Then, he was like, ‘Yes?’ I said, ‘I want to spend my life with you,’ and he was like, ‘What is the question?’ ‘Would you marry me?’ That’s it,” he related. —ALLAN POLICARPIO