From Ronaldo to Heidi Klum: The ultimate hits and misses of engagement rings
With great wealth comes a grand engagement ring: Cristiano Ronaldo presented his fiancée with a vulgarly large diamond. It's not the only questionable celebrity ring...
After nine years of dating and four children together, the time has come: Cristiano Ronaldo is asking for his partner Georgina Rodríguez's hand in marriage. With an estimated net worth of around one billion dollars, there's no point skimping on the engagement ring.
In a photo the 31-year-old model shared on Instagram on Monday, Rodríguez shows off an oval-cut XXL diamond. It must be expensive! Speculation about the value of the piece of jewelry quickly arose. Estimates range from two to ten million dollars.
But as impressive as this sum may be, the stone's absurd size makes it seem somewhat fake—almost like an oversized toy ring. Bigger, thicker, and shinier doesn't always equal more beautiful jewelry. Some rings worn by other celebrities prove this. Here are our top picks and flops:
FLOP: A vulgar Easter egg for Georgina RodríguezCristiano Ronaldo is proving particularly impressively these days that taste, unfortunately, can't be bought. Notoriously lacking in style anyway—keyword: oil-brushed hair and sunbed tan—the soccer star has now proposed to his fiancée with a ring of vulgar size. Georgina Rodríguez certainly shouldn't jump into the sea off Madeira wearing this jewel; she's in acute danger of sinking.
The oval-shaped central diamond is estimated online by experts to be around 35 carats, with the surrounding side stones, all set in platinum, adding another carat each. The drab Easter egg shape, the boring, clear, non-color, the absurd size—this ring is truly outrageous. We recommend: Sell it immediately!
TOP: A pale green dream for Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez is slowly catching up; if she does everything right—or everything wrong—she'll soon catch up with Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor has been married to seven men a total of eight times in her life, including her husband, fellow actor Richard Burton, twice. And Lopez, who has been married four times, almost said "I do" to Ben Affleck twice: After breaking off her first engagement to the actor in 2002, she went ahead with it about 20 years later and married her Ben in 2022.
But the marriage didn't last long—it ended in February of this year. Luckily for Jenny, she took one of the most beautiful engagement rings of all time with her from the romance, which, according to US tabloids, she actually intends to keep. The cushion-shaped, 8.5-carat natural diamond comes in a particularly unusual pale green, set on a platinum band with two crescent-shaped accent diamonds. The ring is now valued at around five million dollars. That's how it's done!
FLOP: A foreign body for Kim KardashianUnderstatement looks different. In 2013, Kanye West proposed to Kim Kardashian in front of her friends and family. He slipped a white gold, diamond-studded engagement ring by American jeweler Lorraine Schwartz onto her finger. At the time, the ring was valued at over two million dollars due to the high-purity white diamond. Striking, but unfortunately not strikingly beautiful.
The enormous chunk on Kardashian's ring finger seemed almost foreign. No wonder it was only seen on the occasional red carpet after the proposal. Even though West has often demonstrated a good sense of fashion despite his countless escapades in recent years, this piece of jewelry was more of a throwaway than a treasure chest.
TOP: Three hearts for Lady GagaFor Lady Gaga, all good things come in threes—at least when it comes to her engagements. The 39-year-old singer and actress has received three marriage proposals from three different men since 2015. Her first, and most beautiful, ring was from actor Taylor Kinney. While extremely ostentatious and therefore certainly not to everyone's taste, this gem offered several unique features.
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The six-carat diamond heart-shaped ring sparkled more than almost any other engagement ring on this list and was worth an estimated $400,000 to $500,000. Kinney had the back of the ring inscribed with "T <3 S" in white diamonds, a reference to the singer's birth name. While this sparkling heart might not be to everyone's taste, at least someone put some thought into it! The following Gaga rings were terrible.
FLOP: A neglected garden pond for Heidi KlumFor his proposal to model Heidi Klum, rumors say Tom Kaulitz didn't just go to a jeweler, but designed a ring himself. A romantic gesture—at least in theory, because some things should perhaps be left to people who deal with them professionally. Kaulitz chose an alexandrite, a gemstone that shimmers in Heidi's favorite color, green, and shifts into a deep red depending on the light.
In many photos, however, the stone appears rather indecisive, reminiscent of a long-neglected garden pond. The gemstone is framed by a wreath of small, clear diamonds – the total value of the ring is estimated at €20,000 to €30,000. As opulent as this combination may appear at first glance, it gives the ring a rather old-fashioned charm, looking a bit like a treasure from Aunt Erna's jewelry box, exempt from inheritance disputes.
TOP: Double happiness for Megan FoxMegan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly may have gone their separate ways since November of last year – but given the exceptionally beautiful engagement ring, the actress would hardly be blamed for continuing to wear it. Unhappy breakup or not, the sparkle of this piece of jewelry almost effortlessly outshines resentment, anger, and disappointment.
The ring consists of two large, seven-carat, elegant pear-cut diamonds, arranged opposite each other on a band studded with smaller stones, and is estimated to be worth between €300,000 and €500,000. One of the large gems is a clear diamond, the other shines an intense emerald green—a harmonious and stylish combination that makes you forget a lot of things.
