After months of rumors, the news is finally confirmed. Fernando Alonso (44 years old) and Melissa Jiménez (38 years old) are expecting their first child.
As the magazine announced GOOD MORNING!, the Formula 1 driver and the sports journalist They will become parents. And they are delighted with the news. This babythe third for her (she has three children from a previous relationship) and the first for the athlete, fulfilling his wish to start a family.
According to sources close to the couple, Melissa is pregnant with six months. SO, Their first offspring together will arrive in the world in early 2026.
The relationship between Fernando Alonso and Melissa Jiménez began in April 2023.
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Melissa, absent in Abu Dhabi
The news of Fernando Alonso’s impending fatherhood comes a day after Alonso participated last weekend in the latest F1 Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi.
On such an important date, his sentimental partner was not with him in the paddock. A detail which then attracted attention, since it is generally not missing at this type of meeting.
The reason for his absence Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Or the pilot of McLaren, Lando Norris (26 years old) was proclaimed world champion of Formula 1. Her pregnancy prevented her from being present at the races.
Together from 2023
The relationship between driver Fernando Alonso and Melissa Jiménez, who works as a Formula 1 journalist for DAZN, started in April 2023.
However, the first images of the couple and media confirmation came in May of the same year. Then they were seen together in Monaco in the driver’s car.
Both they met at paddock due to their respective professions and maintain a discreet but strong relationship, despite occasional rumors of a falling out.
While they have yet to complete their two years together, it turns out that the couple is expecting their first child together (Alonso’s first and her’s fourth), due in March next year.
Mélissa was married to Marc Bartra
It should be remembered that Melissa Jiménez was previously married to the footballer Marc Bartra (34). The couple married in June 2017 and announced their separation early 2022. From this relationship, they have three children: Gala, born in 2015, April, that they welcomed into 2018And Max.born in 2019.
Fernando Alonso, for his part, has had a very publicized love life. Her most famous relationship was her marriage to Rachel del Rosario (43 years old), singer of the group Morpheus’ dream.
The pilot and the singer They got married in 2006 and announced their separation by mutual agreement in 2011. Since then, they have maintained an excellent friendship.
After his divorce, he had a famous romance with the presenter Lara Alvarez (39), with whom rumors circulated about a possible marriage, although shortly afterwards his environment denied this information. They separated in 2016.
Other known relationships of Fernando Alonso have been the Russian model Dasha Kapustinawith whom he had an affair between 2012 and 2014; and the Italian model Linda Morselli -ex of Valentino Rossi-, with whom he spent five years, until 2021.
Shortly before starting his relationship with Melissa Jiménez, Alonso spent a year with another Formula 1 journalist: the Austrian Andrea Schlager.
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