Football icon Cristiano Ronaldo has officially proposed to his longtime partner, Georgina Rodriguez — and the engagement ring is as dazzling as his career.
Rodriguez, 31, shared the happy news on Instagram on Monday, August 11, posting a photo of her hand resting atop Ronaldo’s, showing off a stunning oval-shaped diamond.
“Yes I do. In this and in all my lives,” she wrote in the caption, translated from Spanish.
The couple’s love story began in 2016, when Ronaldo met Rodriguez while she was working as a sales assistant at a Gucci store in Madrid. They went public in early 2017, making their first official appearance together at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich, before going Instagram official a few months later.
Over their eight-year relationship, Ronaldo, 40, and Rodriguez have built a large blended family, sharing five children: twins Eva Maria and Mateo, 8, daughter Alana, 7, daughter Bella, 3, and Ronaldo’s 15-year-old son Cristiano Jr., from a previous relationship.
In April 2022, the couple experienced heartbreak when Bella’s newborn twin brother, Ángel, tragically passed away. The emotional moment was documented in Rodriguez’s Netflix series I Am Georgina, where she described the experience as “the best and the worst moment” of her life.
Despite the tragedy, their bond only grew stronger. Rodriguez recalled their early dating days when Ronaldo would pick her up from work in his luxury cars — once arriving in a Bugatti to the astonishment of her coworkers. “People couldn’t believe it,” she said.
Ronaldo, for his part, said: “It was funny because I would wait for her outside the store in these flashy cars… then we would go home and disappear into our own world.”
The engagement now marks a new chapter in one of football’s most high-profile love stories — a romance that has endured triumphs, tragedies, and the test of time.
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