Although she’s happy to be back together with longtime love, Nick Lachey, Vanessa Minnillo had other relationships on the brain in at the DSW Presents: Step Up & Step Out event to benefit female empowerment.
During the event, the former TRL hostess talked about the importance of having women role models in her life, reports In Touch Weekly.
“I didn’t have my real mother growing up. My dad was always there, but there is something about a woman’s touch,” Vanessa, who was raised by her father from a young age explained. “So I’ve literally drawn from so many women in my life, and I was fortunate enough to be able to have that.”
And although she’s grown up to be a happy and succesful adult, Vanessa confessed that she still feels the need for guidance and support from other women.
“I’m still like a little girl who cries at night and has a fork in the road and says — does she go left? Does she go right? I need someone’s guidance and yet, I have also helped guide others,” she added.
And while she spoke quite passionately about women’s issues, she turned surprisingly bashful when asked about her recent reunion with Nick. “Thank you” she simply laughed when congratulated on her on-again relationship.
Despite her lack of a mother-daughter relationship, it seems to us that Vanessa has it all pretty much figured out. Great man, good career, what more can a girl ask for?!
The lovebirds were spotted at McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon in NYC on Wednesday night.
“They seemed very laid back and were very friendly to the staff and fellow patrons,” an eyewitness told Life & Style. The two called it an early night and headed home together at 9 p.m.
Nick and Vanessa split up in June, but they have been spotted canoodling in NYC and LA in the past few weeks.
We hope they get back together! They are a cute couple and have been together way too long to give up without a fight!
Lachey and girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo have called it quits, a rep for both confirmed to Usmagazine.com.
“They have amicably split but remain good friends who still greatly care for one another,” Minnillo’s rep told Us.
The former 98 degrees frontman hooked up with Minnillo in 2006, only one year after his highly publicized split from wife Jessica Simpson.
It’s clear that the couple were in love and had dreams to marry each other. In 2007, Minnillo told Us that she wished to have kids with Lachey someday.
“I always say I want three boys and and a girl, but at the end of the day, I just want healthy kids.”
Maybe deeply in love, but it’s no secret that these two have had a rocky relationship. Just earlier this month Minnillo addressed the millions of rumors concerning her so-called relationship problems.
“This romance is still going strong. There will always be rumblings and rumors that we’ve broken up, but in fact, it’s very much still on — and it keeps on getting better,” she told Las Vegas Weekly.
Funny that they were still going strong three weeks ago and now they’ve officially broken up!
Gotta love Hollywood couples. Together one day, separated the next!
Despite recent rumors regarding Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey heading towards splitsville, the couple are still going strong!
Minnillo who flew solo at the Spring Bling party in Las Vegas over the weekend, spoke about her boyfriend’s absence to Las Vegas Weekly’sRobin Leach.
“He would have been here with me, but he had to attend a best friend’s 40th birthday party,” she said.
Minnillo also made a point to address the millions of rumors concerning her so-called rocky relationship with Lachey.
“This romance is still going strong. There will always be rumblings and rumors that we’ve broken up, but in fact, it’s very much still on — and it keeps on getting better,” she explained. “Maybe this will be the one time I wind up the bride instead of the bridesmaid!
The former MTV VJ flashed her five-carat diamond ring, worn on the middle finger of her left hand, to the media and hinted about what’s in store for the couple’s future.
“It will be 10 carats when it moves to the fourth finger!”
A new report suggests that Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo are on the rocks and the reason is due to Lachey’s unstable career.
A source told the New York Daily News that the former lovebirds “are on the rocks big time. They argue all the time, and Nick is done with her. He feels like she’s holding him back, careerwise.”
Friends of the former boy bander say that in order to launch a comeback, Lachey needs to dump Minnillo.
Another report claimed that the end was near after Minnillo stormed out of an L.A. restaurant with an angry face — with an embarrassed Lachey chasing after her with a doggy bag in hand.
“After the pictures came out, Nick told friends they weren’t fighting about their relationship, that it was just Vanessa going through a tough time personally,” a source said.
But, another source said, “We’re just not sure if we believe that anymore. The relationship has been over for a while, but he’s too nice a guy to end things completely.”
When we interviewed Lachey at the Super Bowl, he made it clear to us that an engagement with Minnillo was nowhere in the near future. So we saw this one coming!
Check out photos of celebrities ringing in the new year from the East Coast to the West.
In New York City, Mario Lopez hosted a party on New Year’s Eve at Marquee nightclub, Molly Sims attended a bash at Blade nightclub and the Clintons dropped the ball in Times Square!
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo shared a hug on the red carpet at Liv nightclub in Miami.
In Vegas, Fergie performed at The Venetian with fiance Josh Duhamel looking on, while the Kardashian sisters hosted a party at LAX.
In California, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker rang in the new year at Beso and Miley Cyrus performed at a high school.
Finally, the Hilton sisters celebrated New Year’s Eve down under in Sydney, Australia!
We can’t help but wonder if there’s trouble brewing between Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo since they’ve been out partying separately recently.
Last night Lachey attended Z100’s Jingle Ball in New York City and posed with Minnillo look-a-alike Ashley Tisdale. Meanwhile, Minnillo had a night out on the town without her beau in Los Angeles the night before.
This wouldn’t be too strange for most couples, but these two are attached at the hip!
Last week we reported that things must be getting bad for Lachey when we caught him making a, most likely paid, appearance at the Hot Wheels 40th anniversary celebration in NYC.
Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, they did.
Lachey walked down the red-carpet last night at JC Penny’s American Living launch party last night at Skylight in New York City.
Maybe the rumors of an engagement with him and girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo are true and he’s gone to desperate measures to pay for the huge rock. However, judging by Lachey’s conservative spending habits, that’s probably not case!
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo managed to keep their suits on at the pool launch party of the new El San Juan Hotel & Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico over the weekend.
They managed to keep their clothes on later that night too at Brava nightclub. The real question is whether they managed to keep their suits on back at their hotel room balcony!
