Cristiano Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina RodrÃguez is hitting back at online chatter about her appearance and embracing her curves.
On Tuesday, the model and influencer posted a carousel of holiday pics — some of her in a bikini — on Instagram with a lengthy message accompanying it.
“My body will change, just as all women's bodies do. And I hope it continues to do so for many years, because that will mean I am still living,†RodrÃguez wrote, according to Instagram's translation from Spanish to English.
However, she admitted that the criticism stings and makes her question herself.
“Then I wonder… where is the standard? Who decides what the ‘right' body is? Do we really still think happiness has a size?†she continued, explaining that she exercises because it makes her “happy†and it's something she's “passionate about.â€
RodrÃguez, 32, who shares five children with the soccer player, noted that an online discourse about her figure “happens every summer,†writing, “Every year my body is news again.â€
The “I Am Georgina†star explained that as a mother to three girls, she wants to impart important lessons about body image along with Ronaldo, 41.
“The value of a person can never depend on a physicist or on the opinion of strangers,†she wrote. “That little dose of positive psychology that I try to give them every day also helps me to keep my head on in this world of so much fantasy.â€
RodrÃguez confessed it's a lesson that she struggles with, recounting a conversation she had with Ronaldo, writing that she told him she was “worried that they're calling me fat now, because I live in my image.â€
“You don't live by your image,†he replied. “You live by what you are. A perfect woman. Beautiful, with a great body, mother, good person, successful and living life with love. What the hell else do you want?â€
The Al-Nassr captain chalked it up to jealousy, telling her, “It's normal for them to envy you.â€
“Sometimes we all need someone to remind us what really matters,†RodrÃguez added.
“I love my curves. I love the freedom to live in the body I choose. In the body that holds me, that has allowed me to embrace, create life, fall and rise again,†she wrote. “A body deserving of respect, love and gratitude in all its versions.â€
