diff --git a/TTS/utils/manage.py b/TTS/utils/manage.py
index 1cd437e611..d3eb81040d 100644
--- a/TTS/utils/manage.py
+++ b/TTS/utils/manage.py
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@
 }
 
 
+
 class ModelManager(object):
+    tqdm_progress = None
     """Manage TTS models defined in .models.json.
     It provides an interface to list and download
     models defines in '.model.json'
@@ -525,12 +527,12 @@ def _download_zip_file(file_url, output_folder, progress_bar):
             total_size_in_bytes = int(r.headers.get("content-length", 0))
             block_size = 1024  # 1 Kibibyte
             if progress_bar:
-                progress_bar = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit="iB", unit_scale=True)
+                ModelManager.tqdm_progress = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit="iB", unit_scale=True)
             temp_zip_name = os.path.join(output_folder, file_url.split("/")[-1])
             with open(temp_zip_name, "wb") as file:
                 for data in r.iter_content(block_size):
                     if progress_bar:
-                        progress_bar.update(len(data))
+                        ModelManager.tqdm_progress.update(len(data))
                     file.write(data)
             with zipfile.ZipFile(temp_zip_name) as z:
                 z.extractall(output_folder)
@@ -560,12 +562,12 @@ def _download_tar_file(file_url, output_folder, progress_bar):
             total_size_in_bytes = int(r.headers.get("content-length", 0))
             block_size = 1024  # 1 Kibibyte
             if progress_bar:
-                progress_bar = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit="iB", unit_scale=True)
+                ModelManager.tqdm_progress = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit="iB", unit_scale=True)
             temp_tar_name = os.path.join(output_folder, file_url.split("/")[-1])
             with open(temp_tar_name, "wb") as file:
                 for data in r.iter_content(block_size):
                     if progress_bar:
-                        progress_bar.update(len(data))
+                        ModelManager.tqdm_progress.update(len(data))
                     file.write(data)
             with tarfile.open(temp_tar_name) as t:
                 t.extractall(output_folder)
@@ -596,10 +598,10 @@ def _download_model_files(file_urls, output_folder, progress_bar):
             block_size = 1024  # 1 Kibibyte
             with open(temp_zip_name, "wb") as file:
                 if progress_bar:
-                    progress_bar = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit="iB", unit_scale=True)
+                    ModelManager.tqdm_progress = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit="iB", unit_scale=True)
                 for data in r.iter_content(block_size):
                     if progress_bar:
-                        progress_bar.update(len(data))
+                        ModelManager.tqdm_progress.update(len(data))
                     file.write(data)
 
     @staticmethod