In an Instagram post on Monday, Georgina Rodríguez, the longtime girlfriend of the soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, shared a photo of a gigantic rock on her ring finger. Beneath her hand, adorned with long, freshly manicured, glazed French nails, was another person’s hand — presumably Mr. Ronaldo’s, since he was tagged in the photo.
“Yes, I do. In this and in all my lives,” she captioned the photo in her native Spanish.
Immediately, the oval-cut ring had people talking. Some people compared the diamond ring to a Ring Pop, the lollipop candy, and others joked that it was probably so expensive that it could save world hunger.
“To wear this stone regularly, you’re going to need a finger reconstruction surgery,” Julia Chafé, a jewelry-focused social media influencer, said in a video on Instagram. “Just imagine wearing a hundred-pound kettlebell on your finger all day, every day. Painful, but worth it.”
Mr. Ronaldo, 40, and Ms. Rodríguez, 31, met in 2016 at a Gucci store in Madrid, where she was working at the time, back when he played for Real Madrid. He now plays in Saudi Arabia for Al Nassr.
Anya Walsh, a jewelry specialist at 77 Diamonds, a retailer based in London, said she was surprised to see a diamond ring that large.
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