Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem Engaged
Oct. 5 2009, Published 10:36 a.m. ET
Spanish lovers Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are engaged to be married.
The two Oscar winners, who have been dating since 2007, first met on the film Jamon, Jamon in 1992.
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The 35-year-old beauty from Madrid is rumored to be four months pregnant with her famous boyfriend’s child.
According to the New York Daily News – which broke the story – Cruz wants to marry her lover to appease her Catholic parents because of the persistent rumors that she is pregnant.
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Recently she confessed to Psychology Today: “I don’t know if I believe in marriage – I believe in family, love and children. When I have children I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.”
Cruz - who is known as The Madonna Of Madrid - previously dated Tom Cruise and Matthew McConaughey before getting serious with Bardem.
Bardem – who won an Oscar for No Country For Old Men – was born on the island of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.