14 DAY TRIAL // Though he’s certainly not lacking female admirers, reports suggest that soccer hunk Cristiano Ronaldo chose a paid surrogate mother to deliver his baby boy, whose birth he announced yesterday. This would also explain why he chose not to have her name revealed to the press since it is believed she is bound by contract not to speak of the deal she made with the star, Eurosport reports.
Several media outlets in Ronaldo’s home country are saying that the star approached an American woman with the request to carry his child. Admittedly, he did so without as much as consulting with his girlfriend, Russian lingerie model Irina Shayk, who was completely devastated when she found out about the child. Whether she did so with the rest of the world, by reading Ronaldo’s Facebook and Twitter page, or not has not been determined.
“Correio de Manha reported that the 25-year-old Real Madrid winger hired the woman, while Diario de Noticias added that the baby boy was born on June 17 and weighed 9lb 8oz. The report also said that Ronaldo had begun the paperwork to bring the boy from the US to his native Portugal, where he will be brought up by the star’s mother Delores and sisters Elma and Katia,” Eurosport says.
“‘He’s very happy, of course. Who isn’t happy having children?’ sister Katia told Diario de Noticias. ‘The baby looks like him, although he’s still very small to see what his features will be like.’ Ronaldo, who last summer became the world’s most expensive player after his £80 million transfer from Manchester United, announced on Sunday via Facebook that he had become father to a baby reportedly born in June,” the same publication further says.
As we also informed you yesterday, in his message to his fans and followers, Ronaldo made it very clear that he had no intention of revealing the mother’s name to the general public or the media. We also said that, given how big of a news and surprise this was, more details should be made public soon – by the looks of things, this is just the beginning.