Personal Life
Cruz is a friend of director Pedro Almodóvar, whom she has known for almost two decades and with whom she has worked on films. Cruz is known to friends as Pe. Cruz owns a clothing store in Madrid and designed jewelry and handbags with her younger sister for a company in Japan.
Cruz had a three-year relationship with Tom Cruise after they appeared together in Vanilla Sky. It ended in January 2004. In April 2003, she filed a lawsuit against the Australian magazine New Idea for defamation over an article about her relationship with Cruise. Her lawyers claimed that "the proceedings state that the article contains a number of false and defamatory statements concerning Ms. Cruz" and she is seeking "substantial damages and is confident that legal proceedings will vindicate her reputation."
Cruz dated actor Matthew McConaughey from February 2005 to June 2006. In April 2007, Cruz told the Spanish edition of Marie Claire that she would like to adopt children.
Cruz began dating co-star Javier Bardem in 2007. They married in early July 2010 in a private ceremony at a friend's home in the Bahamas. Cruz gave birth to her first child, a son named Leonardo Encinas, in January 2011 at the Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
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