A keen observer would note that Sofia Vergara's ex-fiancé's New York Times op-ed
— where he argued for his right to bring two embryos the couple froze
while they were still together to term — was perfectly timed to
Vergara's press tour for Hot Pursuit. Coincidence? Maybe. (It's
not.) Anyway, she was going to have to address it at some point, which
she did Monday with — who else? — Howard Stern.
"There is a contract and he can't do anything," Vergara said
of her legal dispute with ex-fiancé Nick Loeb. "We wrote what we wanted
at the time and it's not like a contract that they give you right there
at the moment that they're going to take my eggs out. You see it, you
review it, and not only that, we did it two times. ... Two times and
suddenly you want to change your mind?"
Later, she added, "Even if it's
life or not life, it's not what he signed at the moment. You know, you
should have thought about all of that."
Twice while they were together, Vergara and Loeb froze fertilized
embryos for they day they decided they wanted to have children. Now that
they are no longer an item, they disagree about what should happen to
the embryos. Their arguments stand thusly: a contract they signed for
each embryo stipulates that neither can be implanted in a surrogate
without the permission of both Loeb and Vergara, who does not wish to do
so. Loeb argued in his Times
op-ed that he wanted to be a father and that this is his chance,
comparing himself to two women who won appeals to bring a frozen embryo
to term against the wishes of an ex-partner (they'd undergone
chemotherapy and the embryo was their last chance to have a biological
child).
Vergara says she never read
Loeb's op-ed and simply laughed when Stern asked her if she's worried
Loeb could win his appeal to unfreeze their embryos. She's pretty
confident in her choice.
"More than a mother, [a child]
needs a loving relationship of parents that you know, get along, that
don't hate each other,” she explains. "I don't hate him but obviously he
has a problem with me. … I wouldn't imagine anyone saying to bring to
the world kids that already have everything set up wrong for them. It'd
be so selfish."
Meanwhile, Vergara seems to be moving full steam ahead with Joe Manganiello, to whom she's now engaged.
On Stern, she talked about Manganiello's proposal last December in Hawaii.
"He proposed to me in Spanish,
can you believe that?" Vergara said. "He knows a little bit of Spanish,
but he really, like, did really good."
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