Cristiano Ronaldo reveals engagement to girlfriend of eight years Georgina Rodriguez - see her gigantic ring
The Portuguese soccer star, 40, and his girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, are engaged after eight years of being together, the model shared on Instagram Monday.
'Yes I do. In this and in all my lives,' Rodriguez, 31, wrote in Spanish, including a snapshot of her oval-shaped diamond engagement ring.
The couple first stepped out together at Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich in January 2017, and later made things Instagram official in May of that year.
Ronaldo and Rodriguez share five children: 8-year-old twins Eva Maria and Mateo, daughters Alana, 7, and Bella, 3, and his 15-year-old son Cristiano Jr., from a previous relationship.
They announced the death of Bella's newborn twin brother, Ángel, in April 2022.
Although Rodriguez has been spotted with a ring on her ring finger, this is the first time she shared engagement news.
The couple discussed taking the next step in their relationship in the Netflix docuseries, 'I Am Georgina' — an emotional in-depth portrait of the influencer's daily life.
'They're always joking about the wedding, 'When is the wedding?'' Rodriguez said of her friends in the March 2025 episode. 'Since Jennifer Lopez's song 'The Ring Or When' came out, they started singing it to me. And well, this is not up to me.''
'I always tell her, when we get that click,' Ronaldo said, snapping his fingers. 'Like everything with our life, and I know she knows what I'm talking about. It could be in a year, or it could be in six months or it could be in a month. I'm 1,000 percent sure that it'll happen.'
The couple's engagement comes more than three years after a federal civil case accusing Ronaldo of raping a 25-year-old woman in a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 was dismissed.
Kathryn Mayorga, a former school teacher, claimed Ronaldo, who was 24 at the time, raped her at the Palms Place in 2009. The allegations were first reported in 2017 by German magazine Der Spiegel.
US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey dismissed the case with prejudice, due to misconduct by Mayorga's attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, who used 'purloined' confidential documents.
Stovall was ordered to pay a proportion of Ronaldo's legal costs.
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