Cristiano Ronaldo Engaged to Georgina Rodriguez After Eight Years Together

Cristiano Ronaldo has proposed to his longtime partner, Georgina Rodriguez, marking a new milestone in their eight-year romance.

According to a Vanguard report, the 40-year-old Portuguese football star’s engagement was revealed on Monday, August 11, when Rodriguez announced the news on Instagram, sharing a photo of her hand resting atop Ronaldo’s with a giant oval-shaped diamond ring on her finger.

“Yes I do. In this and in all my lives,” she wrote in a translated caption.

Ronaldo and Rodriguez, 31, went public with their relationship in early 2017 and are parents to 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, they announced the heartbreaking loss of Bella’s newborn twin brother, Ángel.

Their first public appearance as a couple was at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich in January 2017, before making their relationship Instagram official in May that year. In 2017, they welcomed twins via surrogate and later had daughter Alana in November.

Rodriguez’s early romance with Ronaldo was featured in her Netflix series I Am Georgina, where the football icon described her as a “very interesting girl, so much more mature for her age.” She recalled him visiting her at the Gucci store where she worked, saying:

“Many times he’d come after work. He would come, I remember once, in a Bugatti. My coworkers went crazy. They get there on the bus, and I would leave in a Bugatti. I mean, people couldn’t believe it.”

Ronaldo added: “It was funny because I would wait for her outside the store in these flashy cars I have, We would go home, and there we would go into our own world.”

In the series, Rodriguez also opened up about the loss of their child, describing it as “the best and the worst moment of my life.” She revealed that Ronaldo encouraged her to embrace life again despite the pain: “Life is hard. Life goes on. I have reasons to move on and be strong,” she said.