Sofia Vergara Explains How She and Joe Manganiello Got Together

Is there such a thing as too handsome? Sofia Vergara thinks so and that almost stopped her from giving current fiancé, Joe Manganiello, a shot.

The Modern Family star, 42, talks with Vanity Fair about how she and the Magic Mike hunk, 38, first got together. Let's just say Joe didn't waste any time trying to woo Sofia, reaching out to her Modern Family co-star the minute news hit she was on the market.

Sofia Vergara covers Vanity Fair
Sofia Vergara covers Vanity Fair

"The day that I sent the press release [announcing the breakup], Joe immediately contacted Jesse Tyler Ferguson, like, 'Please, please, please tell her I want her number,'" Vergara recalls.

The Colombian beauty announced in May 2014 that she and businessman Nick Loeb had called off their engagement for the second time. "We have been having too many problems with figuring out how to spend time together and because of my work and now his, it's been getting worse and worse. Not fun anymore," Vergara said in a statement at the time.

So what was her response to Joe's eagerness?

"I'm like, 'Jesse, no, he’s too handsome,'" she admits. "Then, after two days of Jesse trying to convince me, I'm like, OK, give him my number."

Vergara continues, "I'm thinking, I'm in New Orleans shooting, and he's in L.A. Nothing's going to happen. But we started talking a lot, and then he showed up in New Orleans. Since then we've been inseparable. There's nothing about him I'd change other than the fact that he's four years younger than me [he's 38 to her 42]."

Sofia and Joe first met at the White House Correspondents dinner last May, a couple of weeks before she and Loeb ended their relationship. The former True Blood hunk gave an interview to People shortly after about how she was his dream girl.

"I love a butt. Sofia Vergara, that's it," he said. "She's got that Latin thing going. She's got the butt, she's got curves, she's got a beautiful face, beautiful hair, just gorgeous. And she's feisty! I don't go after other people's women. She's got a guy. If she was single, I would be like, poof!"

The interview hit stands after the two had already started seeing each other.

"I had forgotten I had said that," Manganiello later told Ryan Seacrest. "And when the magazine came out, by that time, we were seeing each other and when I got the magazine and opened it up and read it, I forgot I said that. I started laughing. [Sofia] was laughing at me… She thought that I was crazy for having said that out loud or said it in the magazine, but you know, I guess it worked."

Joe popped the question over Christmas in Hawaii after six months of dating. The two stars are expected to wed later this year. So will babies soon follow?

"My son, Manolo, is 23 years old, which is going to be really weird if I have another baby," Vergara told Vanity Fair. "But, you know, Joe wants babies and if it's going to make him super-happy, then ..."

... then get ready for the cutest babies ever.