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Cynthia Rodríguez and Carlos Rivera are one of the longest-standing and most famous couples in Mexican show business. They recently surprised their followers by announcing that they are expecting their second child, a girl who will be named María.
We tell you how old they are, how their love story began, how many children make up their family, and why their marriage has been surrounded by rumors for some years now.
¿Cuántos años tiene Cynthia Rodríguez?
Cynthia Rodríguez is 42 years old. She was born on May 8, 1984, in Monclova, Coahuila.
¿Cuántos años tiene Carlos Rivera?
Carlos Rivera is 40 years old. He was born on March 15, 1986, in Huamantla, Tlaxcala.
¿Dónde se conocieron Cynthia Rodríguez y Carlos Rivera?
Although they participated in different generations of La Academia—he in the third and she in the fourth—it was on Desafío de Estrellas where they crossed paths and began to forge a great friendship.
During that show, they performed the song "Duele" by LU together, and over time, the friendship ended up turning into a love story.
Years later, Cynthia said that for a long time, she always saw him as a friend.
"Before he went to Spain, because he was my friend and he was Carlitos, because he is younger than me. He really was Carlitos, he was my friend, we would talk and everything, but before he went to Spain we went to dinner and it was like: 'What? Mmm, he is not Carlitos anymore, he is Carlos!'", the singer recalled, as reported by TV Azteca.
¿Cuándo comenzaron su relación Cynthia Rodríguez y Carlos Rivera?
Various media outlets indicate that the couple began dating in November 2015, although they kept their romance away from the spotlight for several years.
Over time, both publicly confirmed their relationship and made it clear that it was not a secret, but a decision to protect their private life.
In an interview for Todo Un Show, Carlos Rivera explained:
"They ask me: 'Why are you hiding it?'. No, I am not hiding. In fact, we don't hide; we protect. It's different. We go to restaurants, to parties, to the movies... but we don't show off, which is different."
¿Cuántos años llevan casados Cynthia Rodríguez y Carlos Rivera?
4 years. The couple married on June 5, 2022, in the Ribera del Duero region, in Castilla y León, Spain.
The wedding was a very intimate ceremony that was only attended by family and close friends.
¿Cuántos hijos tienen Cynthia Rodríguez y Carlos Rivera?
Currently, Cynthia Rodríguez and Carlos Rivera have one child, León, and are expecting the arrival of their second daughter, who will be named María.
Upon announcing the pregnancy, the couple shared an emotional message through Instagram:
"God has blessed us again... We asked for you as a miracle, and faith made us look for you... MARÍA, we were saving a space for you in our hearts and we love you even without knowing you... Here we wait for you with immense excitement: Mom, Dad and León."
¿Por qué el matrimonio de Cynthia Rodríguez y Carlos Rivera ha estado rodeado de rumores?
Although Cynthia Rodríguez and Carlos Rivera have always kept their relationship away from the spotlight, that has not prevented rumors about their marriage from arising on social media and in some entertainment programs.
One of the most discussed is the one that asserts that they have a supposed "lavender marriage," a term that, according to the page Gottman, is used to describe a marriage between a man and a woman in which one or both members are not heterosexual and whose relationship is one of convenience.
The rumors also gained strength after the 2025 controversy, when Carlos Rivera refused to sing at a lesbian wedding because, supposedly, he did not want to be associated with the LGBT+ community so as not to fuel rumors about his sexual orientation. That situation, added to comments from his former La Academia castmate, Toñita, in February of this year, brought the topic back to the table.
"I didn't imply (that it is staged), I just have the same idea as Juan Gabriel: what is seen is not judged," declared Toñita to the press.
And she added:
"We are nobody to bring anyone out of the closet. We can give our opinion, make a mess, but we are not judges to judge anyone's life. Whether Carlitos is or isn't, that's his business."
[Publicidad]