Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina: A live love story that will end in marriage.

BarcelonaThe relationship between Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez is very different from that of other footballers with their girlfriends. While most first division players make sure their girlfriends/wives don't have to work, much less in front of the general public, the couple formed by the Portuguese player and the Aragonese of Argentine descent has always been built around her working, especially on social media, television, and audiovisual projects such as reality showsThrough all these channels, she—and, indirectly, he—have done nothing but put their privacy as a couple, as well as that of their children, whom we all know by name and face due to their constant exposure, at the service of global gossip. In fact, this is also unusual in the world of footballers, since most try to protect their offspring from media pressure.

It's curious how, in their great social showcase, the displays of affection between Ronaldo and Rodríguez are regular and arrive punctually, unlike the rest of the couples exposed on social media, in which one can observe periods of greater and lesser effusiveness, following biorhythms. This is not their case, in which there is never anything to suggest that there is more distance between them than before, nor a colder treatment, nor any disagreement on any issue, much less rumors of a crisis and/or a possible separation. The couple's media unity is such that even the story of how they met is told the same way, which is surprising, since no couple ever explains how they started dating the same way. On the occasions they've spoken, they've said that once he went shopping at the Gucci store where she worked, and they exchanged glances as she was walking out the door as she turned and he was entering, and they fell in love at first sight. Later, they started dating, and their love story was confirmed.

Confirmed since 2017

Rumors of a relationship between Ronaldo—who had previously also had a highly publicized relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk—and Georgina were circulating on the digital media until the couple decided to make their relationship official in early 2017, appearing hand in hand on the red carpet at the FIFA Football Awards, where they also won the award. The couple, who had also been born through a surrogate mother in 2010, began sharing their love on social media, becoming a regular feature on gossip magazines and in the highly visited sports sections focused on the personal lives of footballers.

The couple's adventures around the world, in which she has always followed the footballer out of love wherever he has played, have also been the subject of news before and after the moves, which have taken them from Madrid to Milan, to Manchester and, finally, to Saudi Arabia. Similarly, the exponential growth of their family has also been part of their public and media life without too many regrets. Their family model, very modern for two people who maintain a profile as heteronormative as they do, has also been a mine of clicks for the media and followers for them, who have 662 million for him and 68 million for her.

Five very famous children

Aside from Jr., who was already a baby when they met, the footballer also had a twin son—also via surrogacy—in June 2017, after having been with Georgina for some time. These two children are Eva and Mateo, now 8 years old. Later, the love they professed for each other online led to their first child together, a daughter named Alana Martina, born in Madrid in November 2017, five months after her twin brothers. Five years after Alana, Georgina became pregnant again, with a twin. In April 2022, they had Bella Esmeralda in Manchester. His twin brother, whom they named Ángel, died in childbirth.

The evolution of his family has been partially traced to his own reality from Netflix, in which she is the protagonist, but without his existence in the background it would not make any commercial sense. I'm Georgina It has had three seasons, the first of which was filmed when she was already living outside Madrid and pregnant with her first child. It premiered in early 2022. The next two aired in mid-2023 and late 2024. Recently, it was learned that there will not be a fourth season. However, this production has made her a global icon. Her Cinderella story has resonated with certain sectors of society, who have admired her for going from selling luxury handbags to collecting them not because of any particular professional talent, but because of her matchmaking.

An opulent relationship in every sense

Georgina's relationship with Ronaldo has always been accompanied by opulence, which is a very common resource to gain a foothold in the networks and media, but also as a supposed demonstration of the intense love they profess for each other. This has been the case until the confirmation of the wedding, which has been revealed this week through the stories from her Instagram account, where she posted a picture of her hand on top of his in bed. In the photo, you can see a marriage proposal ring, which many have commented on online due to the size of the diamond crowning it. Experts have told various media outlets that this gem could be worth around six million dollars. She emphasized her joy at the wedding proposal in the caption that accompanied her Instagram post.Yes, I do. In this and all my lives.", has written the influencer, who had gotten a French manicure for this –unexpected?– occasion.

The wedding between the 40-year-old footballer and her 31-year-old husband will become a new avalanche of information from now until it is celebrated, on a date and place that we still do not know. It will not be surprising if they, who do not need it, do not sell the exclusive and that, therefore, the publications on the networks will be there the day it arrives. It is absolutely understandable that the star's request to his partner comes now that he is at an age where he can still do a lot of business in all fields, but that as a player his life is already very limited, not in vain he currently plays in an environment as undemanding on the pitch as the Saudi one.

That is why, despite the fact that they have been together for nine years, that the wedding happens now makes perfect sense from a commercial, media and personal branding, It will provide them with a new springboard to transcendence. It will be a platform that will update their profile in the minds of people around the world, allowing him to embrace new business opportunities, as he will no longer be that young man who played for important teams and then retired in the Persian Gulf, but a figure of pure current interest. We'll see what businesses occupy him from now on—he even has hair transplant clinics, among many other initiatives—and which ones occupy her beyond constantly showing the world that she's his wife, which clearly satisfies him greatly.