The couple, who met in a Gucci store in Madrid in 2017, have two children together and raised the player’s three other children together. The relationship went through difficult times, including the loss of a twin son in 2022, but grew stronger over the years until the official announcement of their engagement in August.
In Cristiano Ronaldo’s life, everything began to be measured in millions.
Georgina’s publication on social media, of a huge and rare 37-carat oval diamond, didn’t even need a caption for everyone to immediately realize that their eight-year relationship, with two children in common and three more just for Ronaldo, will turn into marriage.
Not that it wasn’t already a serious case of union between these two, who met when she worked as a sales assistant at the luxurious Gucci, in Madrid, and he went in to buy something, or just to look, and saw what is one of Cristiano’s family jewels: Georgina.
Dating secretly
They were secretly dating at Disney in Paris, in a kind of hidden cat scene with its tail out, because not even a wig made Ronaldo go unnoticed by the paparazzi cameras, which some say were even arranged.
It was January 2017 and Cris and Gio became inseparable. They made their relationship official, which is what they say, they published their first photo together on his Instagram in May, and influencer Georgina Rodríguez was born.
In June, the twins Eva and Mateo were also born, an independent production of Ronaldo, just as Cristianinho had been. And a month later they announce that Georgina is pregnant with Alana Martina. In November, after less than a year of dating, the couple has four children.
First engagement rumors 10 years ago
The first engagement rumors emerged in November 2015 because of a flashy ring, a euphemism for shiny and expensive, that appeared on Gio’s hand. But the two never confirm or deny and life goes on, with celebrations and darker moments, between club changes, tax proceedings or accusations of abuse.
Ups and downs in the relationship
Georgina not only remains a companion and friend, but also as a mother to her children, even those she did not give birth to. And, in October 2021, they announced a new pregnancy, this time with twins, a boy and a girl. It seemed like the happiness that only fiction portrays of two poor boys on their way to a happy ending, with Gio already recording a series under his own name for the giant Netflix.
In April 2022, the devastating news: only the girl survived the birth. Ronaldo and Georgina experience the insane divide between the pain of losing a child and the birth of Bella Esmeralda and try to find the best way to explain the death of a baby to four other children.
The couple seems to have increasingly strong ties between them, even with the move to distant places in the name of his career.
And this August, out of nowhere for the general public, but when it made perfect sense to them, on a simple white sheet, Cristiano and Georgina announced that they are engaged.
