From Bus Rides to Bugattis: How Georgina Rodriguez and Cristiano Ronaldo’s love story truly began

“I started feeling butterflies in my stomach, like, ‘Huh, what’s going on with me?’ I didn’t want to look him in the eye, I was very shy,” she recalled, to which Ronaldo added, “That’s when I went in and saw Gio. She was already done with work. And it was like a moment that clicked. We clicked.”

She also shared that Ronaldo would often pick her up from work when they first started seeing each other. “Many times, he’d come after work. He would come, I remember once, in a Bugatti. My coworkers went crazy. I get there on the bus, and I would leave in a Bugatti. I mean, people couldn’t believe it.”

Ronaldo and Georgina go Insta official. (Source: Instagram/@cristiano)

Ronaldo also said he didn’t think, at first, that the relationship would be this strong. “That I would fall in love with her, I didn’t expect it, honestly. But after a whil,e I felt that she was the woman of my life,” he was heard saying in the first episode of the series.”

A quick look at their relationship timeline

Following their courtship, the couple made their first official appearance together on January 9, 2017, with Ronaldo’s oldest son, Cristiano Jr., in tow, at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich. Fast forward to May 25, 2017,  Ronaldo and Rodriguez made their relationship Instagram official. A month later, in June, Ronaldo announced the birth of his twins via surrogate on his Facebook page.

“So happy to be able to hold the two new loves of my life,” he captioned a photo of himself gazing at his two newborn babies, revealing their names to be Eva and Mateo. On July 18, 2017, the couple announced they were expecting again and welcomed their daughter, Alana Martina, home on November 12 that year.

Four years later, on October 28, 2021, Ronaldo took to social media again to announce that they were expecting twins, and last year in August, Georgina shared the happy news of their engagement with the world. Since then, their wedding plans for 2026, following the World Cup, have been buzzing across the Internet.