Cara Maria Sorbello’s Problem Ambition: Marriage and Youngsters with Paulie

Cara Maria Sorbello is prepared for her subsequent problem with boyfriend Paulie Calafiore — and which means saying goodbye to her self-proclaimed “mistress” title.

“We positively need youngsters and we would like marriage,” Calafiore, 34, completely informed Us Weekly on Tuesday, June 27, whereas sitting alongside his longtime girlfriend, 37.

Whereas Sorbello agreed together with her companion, she revealed that she wasn’t all the time eager on the concept of claiming “I do,” particularly when she began courting Calafiore in summer season 2018.

“[During] these 5 years, like, I’ve come again to who I’m. I really feel like an entire totally different particular person,” the Problem: Battle of the Bloodlines winner informed Us, noting that earlier than Calafiore, she was in some “unhealthy and poisonous relationships,” which affected her outlook on marriage. “I’ve all the time been like, ‘I’m by no means gonna get married. I’m by no means having youngsters.’”

Sorbello confessed: “Even once I began [seeing] him, [I said], ‘Simply so you already know … should you wanna get married, I’ll be your mistress. However, like, I’m by no means gonna get married.’”

Calafiore recalled his girlfriend’s previous remarks, telling Us, “[During] meet and greets she’d be like, ‘No, I’m comfortable being the mistress.’ And I’m like, ‘We’re courting!’”


Paulie Calafiore and Cara Maria Sorbello. Courtesy of Paulie Calafiore and Cara Maria Sorbello/Instagram

Sorbello remembered being “hardheaded” in the beginning of her romance with the guy actuality star attributable to “all of the trauma” she’d been by. Now, nonetheless, she’s modified her tune and is able to transfer ahead.

“I completely would like to marry [Paulie]. I’ve by no means mentioned that earlier than, however [Paulie is] the person who I see for the remainder of my life,” Sorbello mentioned in the course of the joint interview earlier than addressing her companion. “I f—king love you. I 1,000 % would marry you. Like, that is my greatest pal.”

Calafiore, for his half, famous that though his brother simply obtained engaged and his sister had a child, there is no such thing as a “stress” from the pair’s households on after they’ll take the following step.

“I feel all people type of appears to be like at us, even in our households, the place it’s like, ‘They’re type of unconventional youngsters,’” he informed Us. “I feel they anticipate us to randomly final minute be like, ‘Hey guys, we simply obtained married.’”

Sorbello, nonetheless, identified that her Sicilian father “desires a little bit race automobile driver so unhealthy,” so the subject of youngsters has come up. Though she revealed she beforehand was in opposition to changing into a mom, her relationship with Calafiore has additionally modified that plan.

“I’m, like, ‘Someday, yeah, [we’ll have] a pair little soccer boys,’” she mentioned, including that previously she didn’t wish to put her physique by a being pregnant. “As a result of that is my particular person — so by and thru of above and past on one million totally different ranges — [I’m in]. Like the truth that I’m really saying like, ‘Sure, I’m open to having youngsters.’ I don’t assume anyone who stands how enormous that’s.”

Her companion, nonetheless, utterly understood, telling Us, “It’s kinda an enormous deal.”

Calafiore and Sorbello met in 2018 whereas competing on The Problem: Closing Reckoning. Through the present, they didn’t hook up, however the pair did kind a bond, which resulted in Calafiore breaking apart along with his then-girlfriend, Bachelor alum Danielle Maltby.

Sorbello and Calafiore briefly break up in late 2018 after Sorbello realized that Calafiore was nonetheless speaking to Maltby, now 37. The MTV personalities gave their romance a second probability in early 2019 and have been collectively ever since.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi