.Ricky_Martin, the cover star of PEOPLE's second annual Pride issue, says he's 'more comfortable in his own skin than ever before.' Read the full story, here:
It's been over two decades since Ricky Martin arrived into American pop culture, Venus in leather pants on a clamshell. An approachable raconteur, he shook up the American pop establishment at the 1999 Grammy Awards with a thrust of his hips, a wave of his hands, and the invincible chorus of "Livin' La Vida Loca" pulsing at 180 beats per minute. Women wanted him. Men wanted him. Madonna wanted him. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
"But I'm really insecure, to be honest," Martin admits, getting comfortable in his chair in a Los Angles hotel suite last month. He fiddles nervously with the hem of his silk shirt. "I'm super socially awkward but today, well the difference is that I I'm socially awkward. So, I don't go anywhere that causes me anxiety. I'm at peace with performing in front of 30,000 people and feel like the king of the world.
Until he came out in 2010, anxiety was part of his daily routine. He'd been a child performer, moving from local commercials in Puerto Rico to Menudo, the phenomenally successful boy band, in 1984. Throughout the '90s and 2000s, he dated women publicly and at times men privately. "A lot of people have said, 'Rick, you were trying to prove yourself, because of fame and being a sex symbol.' Well , it could be. I don't know. Everyone knows you don't have to be a gay man to know that love is complicated. Or to know how confusing attraction can be." Before he came out, heconfused, he says. "Am I gay? Am I bisexual? Am I confused? What am I?'" Then, he mostly dated women. ""Sexuality is one complicated thing," he says.
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