Sofia Vergara’s ex-fiancé has revealed he wants to use her frozen embryos to start a family despite her objections.
Nick Loeb was in a relationship with the Modern Family star for almost four years and during this time they got engaged and tried to start a family.
The couple underwent IVF and created four embryos- Two were implanted in a surrogate but did not result in pregnancies.
The other two embryos are what Nick is after as he believes they are his “children.”
In an interview with the Daily Mail, the businessman referred to the embryos by name and also called them his “daughters.”
Nick revealed that the couple had agreed upon two names for the two embryos during their fertility treatment- Emma and Isabella, which he continued to use throughout the interview.
Nick told the outlet: “They are ancestral names. I’m very big into genealogy and I have an eclectic ancestry,”
“I’m a quarter British, but I also have Spanish, Danish and German ancestry.”
Defending his relationship with the frozen eggs he stated: “People have relationships with embryos all the time.”
“Every time a woman gets pregnant, she and her husband start building a relationship with that child, even at embryonic stages.”
“What’s the difference whether those embryos are implanted or in cryopreserve?”
“My embryos are in California, a state that doesn’t recognise them as human persons, but if the U.S. Supreme Court takes this up, it will have larger implications than for just IVF.”
Nick also brought up Sofia’s recent divorce from Joe Manganiello and stated that this could be a positive thing for their embryos.
He added: “She is divorced now, single again. She didn’t want to raise children, but maybe, as she gets older and has more time on her hands, that will change.”
“If she doesn’t want to raise them, maybe she will want to… visit them. I don’t know.”
Nick also mentioned that having fathered other children has only made him want his frozen embryos to be born even more.
“When this first started people said, ‘you want kids, Nick, you can have kids with anyone’, but you know what, being a father has made me want my embryos more.”
“I play with my kids. I see the lives in them and I think ‘that’s what I have, frozen’. It gives me more anguish, actually. My children would have sisters.”
