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Ricky Martin is a devoted dad to four kids, and he's certainly proud of it. But despite always wanting children, he didn't always think he'd be able to be a father.

The singer spoke to Out Magazine, explaining: "Many years I dreamt of being a father, and many, many, many times I went through this grieving process of 'I am gay, I am a closeted gay man, and I'm not going to be able to be a daddy."

Ricky revealed that he was partially motivated to come out because of his children, as he said on Sirius XM's Andy Cohen Live that his father advised him: "Especially when I became a father, he said, 'What are you going to [do] teach your kids, to lie?

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You gotta be open. You gotta go out... I want to help you. How can we do this?'"

He decided: "I'm like, 'All right, dad, I'm working on it.

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Gimme a second. I don't know how. I don't know if it'