Who Is Sunny Hostin’s Husband? All About Emmanuel Hostin

The View’s Sunny Hostin and her husband, Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin, have been married for over 20 years.

The couple married in 1998, two years after meeting. Ever since she got married, Sunny has been open about her struggle with infertility. After multiple miscarriages and IVF treatments, she and Manny had two children, Gabriel and Paloma.

In 2021, Sunny shared a sweet Father’s Day message for her husband on Instagram. “Happy Father’s Day to our very own Super Dad who never ceases to amaze me. My partner and better half. You do all the things,” she wrote alongside a series of family photos. She then praised him, listing a number of specific things he does, before finishing with: “We are so lucky to have you in our lives. Anger. ❤️”

In addition to raising two children, Sunny and Manny are successful in their businesses. Along with her gig as a co-host View, Sunny is a senior legal correspondent and analyst for ABC News. The former prosecutor turned journalist is also a published author. Meanwhile, Manny is a sports doctor and surgeon.

So who is Sunny Hostin’s husband? Here’s everything you need to know about Emmanuel Hostin and his relationship with the talk show host.

They met in church

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The couple met at church while they were both living in Maryland. In his book, I Am of These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Life Between Worlds, Sunny explained that she went to church after her run, noting that she “definitely wasn’t dressed for service that day,” when she first saw her husband.

“He was beautiful, dressed in a beautifully tailored suit,” she wrote. Determined to meet him, she followed him to a nearby pastry shop after the service and struck up a conversation.

The way they met has now become a sort of “joke” between them. “He would tell people that we met at a bakery, but I would tell him and everyone else that we met at church,” she wrote. “That’s where the connection happened. He just didn’t see me.”

They have been married since 1998

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Two years after that first meeting, the couple got married. They said “I do” on August 8, 1998, in a small wedding ceremony.

In 2022, Sunny marked 24 years of life together on Instagram. “Happy anniversary my love. Look at our beautiful family,” she wrote alongside photos of the elegant pink cake they bought for the occasion. “Thank you to our wonderful friends for celebrating us in Jamaica. We are grateful.”

He is an orthopedic surgeon

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Manny may not be in the public eye like Sunny, but he is just as respected. He attended John Hopkins Medical School and is a board certified orthopedic surgeon. He works as a physician in New York and has been associated with Mount Sinai and Lenox Hill Hospitals.

In 2021, Sunny and one of her hosts, Ana Navarro, were pulled off stage during a live taping View after both tested falsely positive for COVID. Speaking about the moment afterwards, she shared how it affected her family, especially Manny.

“My husband is a surgeon, as everyone knows, he was in the operating room and they had to take him out of the operating room, because God forbid, he is operating on someone and he is positive for COVID,” she said.

Sunny also explained that the incident was “especially triggering” after both of Manny’s parents died of COVID-19 in late 2020. “So you can imagine how I felt, thinking that I could be COVID-positive and my the family could experience another loss, a loss that I don’t think my husband could bear,” she explained.

He volunteered in the Haitian relief mission after the earthquake

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In 2010, Haiti was hit by a series of devastating earthquakes. Manny, who is part Haitian and part Spanish, was one of many New York doctors who volunteered to help provide medical assistance. In return, many people offered him needlework as a salary.

“He did everything he could, and most people couldn’t pay him,” Sunny told LoHud. “These spikes are often among the most expensive things people own. Giving them to my husband was incredibly meaningful to them. They are priceless.”

They have two children

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After years of trying to conceive, Sunny and Manny welcomed their first child, son Gabriel Hostin, on August 15, 2002. Four years later, in May 2006, their daughter Paloma Hostin was born.

In her memoir, Sunny opened up more about her journey with fertility and IVF. During an interview with Windy City Live, she explained that the chapter on motherhood was difficult to write, but that she felt it was important.

“I struggled with infertility for years and was ashamed of it and embarrassed about it for so long,” she said. Continuing, she explained that she had five miscarriages and was bedridden for seven months while pregnant with her son, which led to a “deep depression”.

“I thought I had to talk about this so that women know that they are not alone and that they don’t need to be ashamed of it,” she added.

He answered her from plastic surgery

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In the summer of 2022, Sunny decided to undergo breast reduction, lift and liposuction. “I feel like a better version of myself,” she told PEOPLE about the plastic surgery procedures. “It was a health decision and a self-care decision.”

However, her husband was worried about her at first. In fact, two years earlier, both he and her co-host, Joy Behar, talked her out of it. According to Sunny, Behar warned her about the risks of anesthesia, while Manny told her: “You’re beautiful. You’re hot. You are sexy.”

She eventually decided to have the procedures done, though, but didn’t tell Manny until just two days before the scheduled surgery.

“I said, ‘I’m not asking for permission or discussion or input,'” she explained. “‘I’m just giving you information, because I have complete control over my body and I have to do this for myself.’ ”

As a result, she said she feels happier and more confident. “Now I’m strutting around naked in my house all the time – I feel great,” she said.

They live in New York

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Although they met in Maryland, both Sunny and Manny were born in New York and raised their families there.

In 2018, the couple purchased a 10-bedroom, 10-bathroom 1920s Tudor in Purchase, NY. The historic mansion was previously owned by Governor Herbert H. Lehman, but by the time the Hostins moved in, it had become a fixer-upper.

“When I came here, there was no running water, no electricity — there was a bat flying in the hallway,” she told PEOPLE. “It was a true labor of love,” she added.

Having a large home also gives them plenty of options for entertaining, something the couple enjoys.

“Our house is always full of people, and for a big house that is very important,” she explained. “We organize an annual Easter egg hunt for 200 children. We have a Halloween party every year. We had a wedding. We had an engagement party. We had a 50th anniversary party. We had a celebration of life vigil. We did everything.”

The property is also home to several pets, including dogs, cats and chickens. “There is something so magical about walking out of your home at 5:30 in the morning, opening the coop and there are eggs in there,” she told PEOPLE. “Anyone who raises chickens knows what I’m talking about.”

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