In England, where soccer causes as much or more rage than here, the tabloids coined an expression, WAG, to refer to the wives of athletes or, at least, to a very specific type of wife. WAG literally means Wifes and Girlfriends, wives and girlfriends, but the term refers not so much to the kinship itself, but to a lifestyle, luxurious as well as superficial and, why not say it, quite vulgar or, at least, insultingly ostentatious.
In Spain, until now, we had not had the opportunity to learn in depth and explore the phenomenon, but Netflix He has taken it upon himself to remedy it. Months ago, he convinced Georgina Rodriguez, influence, model and above all known for being the new girlfriend of Cristiano Ronaldo, so that he would record a docuseries with his life and tell us about his day to day. Thursday January 27th, coinciding with the girl’s 28th birthday, will be released «I’m Georgina“, directed by Juampi Chest («Who wants to marry my son?«, «Nightmare in the kitchen«) and produced by Xavier Thomas Y Montxo Hair.
The documentary explores the phenomenon behind this “modern Cinderella”, this is how they present her to us, and they explain the life of a girl who came into the world in quite humble conditions – she was born in Argentina and grew up in a small town Jaca— and now he moves around in jets, vacations on yachts, drives Bugattis and collect handbags Hermes, Dior The Prada, to name just three names. Her Instagram account accumulates 30 million followers, brands fight for her, she is an international ambassador of luxury jewelry Chopard, has appeared on the covers of the best magazines, Harper’s Bazaar a Cosmopolitan, and his businesses seem to be going from strength to strength: he is not only the face of the swimwear firm Yamamay, but has drawn its own line, OM by G, which mixes casual with luxury. Or put another way, they are basically expensive tracksuits (just a sweatshirt costs more than a hundred euros).
For each collaboration, of course, Georgina pockets astronomical figures: it is rumored that for each post on Instagram she charges around 8,000 euros. It is also rumored that he has a checking account with many zeros, and not exactly to the left. With such a heritage, Georgina can afford to be very splendid and generous with her family. And it is: on Cristiano’s birthday he gave him a car for 180,000 euros. There is nothing.
Few know who I am
«Many know my name, but few know who I am.«, She assures in the docuseries as if to justify that, behind luxury, there is a normal and ordinary human being. That, in fact, is what the series is about: to present the back room of fame and luxury at full throttle. Make it clear to us that behind the bling-bling and jewels there is someone extremely humble who likes the simple life. That instead of a tight haute couture dress and high heels, what she really likes is the plush tracksuit with a kitsch touch.
“I have gone from having nothing to having everything,” says Georgina in a fit of modesty. To which we could answer: yes everything we understand a level of opulence that not even in the most baroque and tacky dreams of Donald Trump. “Being a mother is being worried 24 hours a day,” she insists. And as an example, he describes us that, when he goes to Paris to try on designer clothes, he returns that same night (in a private jet, of course). So you can be with your children and cradle them. The typical selfless mother, go. Of course, with a jet, a yacht and an army of servants at your disposal, conciliation should be easier.
from humble beginnings
The Netflix series emphasizes its origins all the time and explains the history of its parents. He is a former Argentine soccer player; his mother is from Murcia. They moved to Buenos Aires so that the paternal family could meet the couple’s eldest daughter, Ivana, and they took the opportunity to stay for a while. That is why Georgina was born there, although she immediately returned to Spain, first to Murcia and then to Jaca, where she grew up and specialized in classical ballet, one of her great passions.
But the small town was too small for him and, at the age of 18, he packed his bags and went to Huesca, then Madrid and then headed for England, where she worked as an au pair. Back in Spain, again in Madrid, she worked as a shop assistant in Prada and then went on to Gucci. It was in that store where, one day in 2016, the man who would change her life entered. His name was Cristiano Ronaldo.
Cristiano, then a Real Madrid player, had just left the model Irina Shayk and looking for a replacement. “It was love at first sight,” she has said on occasion. She would arrive at the store by bus and her boyfriend would pick her up in a high-end car. She – who defines herself as shy – felt embarrassed at first for not being up to the task. But “she felt a little tickle in her stomach”, a somewhat corny phrase with which she sums up her feelings. The following year, they were already parents of a girl, Alana Martina dos Santos Aveiro. It was recently announced that they are expecting twins. All very idyllic, although it is rumored that relations between Georgina and Cris’s family, as she calls it, are not always easy. Dolores Aveiro, the soccer player’s mother, has always referred to her in correct terms, but cold and somewhat distant.
“Georgina has not changed at all in this time,” say her friends from the deck of a yacht. The Netflix docuseries shows that, at least, his lifestyle has been quite altered. Although, of course, all that glitters is not always gold.
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