After nearly a decade together, Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez are making it official.
Rodríguez revealed the engagement on social media with a single photograph — her hand adorned with a sizable diamond ring — and a caption in Spanish that read: “Yes, I do. In this and in all my lives.” The understated announcement drew millions of likes within hours, a testament to the couple’s global reach. Ronaldo, the most-followed person on Instagram, has yet to publicly comment.
The two met in 2016 at a Gucci boutique in Madrid, where Rodríguez was working. At the time, Ronaldo was starring for Real Madrid. Since then, their relationship has spanned club transfers, the births of children, and the kind of tabloid scrutiny reserved for football’s most famous figure.
They now share two children — including their youngest, Bella, born in April 2022 alongside a twin brother who was stillborn — and Rodríguez has helped raise Ronaldo’s three other children from previous relationships.
Rodríguez, 31, has built a public profile of her own, most notably through the Netflix reality series I Am Georgina, where she once brushed off persistent speculation about an engagement. Friends, she said, “were always joking about the wedding,” often serenading her with Jennifer Lopez’s “The Ring.” “Well,” she laughed on the programme, “this is not up to me.”
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The announcement quickly attracted well-known admirers: Kim Kardashian, Piers Morgan — who wished them “as much success in their marriage as he’s had on the football pitch” — and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury. Lauren Sánchez-Bezos, who married Amazon founder Jeff Bezos earlier this year, commented she was “so happy” for them.
The family lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Ronaldo plays for Al-Nassr. His move to the club in December 2022 came with a reported annual salary of £177 million ($238 million). In June, the 40-year-old extended his contract through 2027, ending speculation about an imminent retirement. “A new chapter begins,” he wrote at the time. “Same passion, same dream. Let’s make history together.”
This week, another chapter began — one not on the pitch, but in the life he and Rodríguez have been quietly building behind it.