Although Mario Lopez spent most of his professional life on set, he met his wife on stage. In 2008, he first laid eyes on Courtney Mazza backstage at "A Chorus Line," the Broadway show they starred in together. Lopez was immediately smitten with her looks, and once he saw her perform, his interest was piqued even more. However, the beginning of their relationship was pretty one-sided. "She was ... not giving me any love at all for like a couple of months," he said. "So of course it made me want to go out with her more."
Since Mazza was based in New York, and Lopez was slated to move back to Los Angeles after his theater stint, the pair didn't think their relationship would "go anywhere." However, they surprised themselves by continuing to date long distance. Since she only had Mondays off, Mazza would fly out to see Lopez after her Sunday show and return home on Tuesday. After that back-and-forth, he invited her to move in, and the rest is history. The lovebirds welcomed their first child, Gia, in 2010, married in 2012, and then added two sons to their brood: Dominic in 2013 and Santino in 2019. Lopez is not opposed to growing his family even further and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, told Us Weekly, "If we don't get a quarantine baby out of this, I'm going to be surprised."
