Sofia Vergara and Ex-Fiancé Nick Loeb Fight Over Two Frozen Embryos

In what is becoming a dirty battle over the rights to two embryos currently in frozen storage, "Modern" Family actress Sofia Vergara and her ex-fiancé, businessman Nick Loeb went on rival morning talk shows last Thursday to air their side on their ongoing fight over the embryos they created before they separated.

Speaking on NBC's "Today Show," Loeb spoke about the "moral, legal, ethical concepts" related to the lives "that we've already created." He has taken legal action to get control of the embryos created by him and Vergara in 2013 through in-vitro fertilization before they split up. He said he intends to have a surrogate mother carry and give birth to them. He would then raise the children himself.

"It looks sort of like a publicity thing," host Hoda Kotb suggested to Loeb.

"Sure. Unfortunately, I didn't even come out with this story. It was leaked to the press. There were comments made by her team in the press and I felt like I had to come out and correct the record," Loeb explained.

A contract the couple signed, however, states that the embryos can only be brought to term if both parties agree. If one of the parties dies, the embryos will have to be thawed and rendered unusable, according to the contract. No clause was made on the action that could be taken if the couple separated. That is the ambiguity which Loeb hopes to challenge in his lawsuit.

Speaking on "Good Morning America" on the same day, Vergara said she felt her ex was taking advantage of her. She is currently the highest paid actress on TV and she has a new movie out, "Hot Pursuit." She has also been awarded her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

"I don't think it's fair," she said.

"I've been working very hard for 20 years to get to this point where I am. I promote all my movies, all my work, but I don't like promoting my private life. And I don't want to allow this person to take more advantage of my career and try to promote himself and get press for this," Vergara told Amy Robach, host of "GMA."

She blamed the media for bringing attention to Loeb, saying it encouraged "somebody to invent things and create press for himself."

"He's not an actor. He's not a celebrity," she said.

She also emphasized that it isn't for other people to give their opinion on the matter as there is nothing to talk about, underscoring that they have a signed legal document.

Loeb also wrote a column about the issue in the New York Times. He argued that the embryos created are already alive and should be defined as "life" rather than "property." He said he will take full responsibility for raising the children and will pay all the expenses.

"A woman is entitled to bring a pregnancy to term even if the man objects," he said.

Back on the Today Show, Kotb asked Loeb, "Do you want to have a baby? Or do you want to have her baby?"

"It has nothing to do with whether [it's] her baby or a baby," Loeb replied. "Lives were already created. A lot of the questions are, 'Why don't you move on and meet someone else?' and no doubt I would love to do that. But doesn't it matter that two lives have already been created? I wouldn't toss them aside, [it's] no different than a child that has already been born."

Kotb then asked Loeb whether he would object should Vergara, who is currently engaged to Joe Manganiello, want to give life to those embryos with Manganiello.

"As long as I was involved in the parental process," Loeb replied.

Vergara and Loeb's legal battle heads to court in Los Angeles on May 22.