The truth behind Ronaldo’s twins
WHETHER or not he is the greatest footballer to have played the game, Cristiano Ronaldo is no longer a mere sportsman; he is a global brand.
To his legion of fans, the reason for Ronaldo’s jubilation on June 5 was obvious. Earlier, he had scored two goals in another man-of-the match performance, as his team, Real Madrid, won the European Champions League final.
However, that wasn’t his only cause for celebration. That day he’d received momentous news: he had become the father of twins.
Three weeks passed before Ronaldo announced the birth of his son, Mateo, and daughter, Eva – again via an Instagram picture, in which he cradled the pair.
Since then, they have become the most talked about twins since Romulus and Remus.
There has been endless speculation because Ronaldo, 32, remains unmarried, rumours surround his sexual orientation (despite all the glamorous women) and he has not identified the twins’ mother. Were they carried by a surrogate, or a secret girlfriend?
Had Ronaldo paid another woman to provide him with a ready-made, no-strings attached family, precluding the possibility of a costly future divorce?
No one even knew when or where they were born.
Similar intrigue still surrounds the birth, seven years ago, of their older brother, Cristiano jr.
The twins were conceived in a laboratory and born to a surrogate mother.
This was ascertained from the publicly accessible case file in the Superior Court of California, San Diego. Mateo arrived first, at 9.07am; sister Eva Maria came into the world one minute later at the Sharp Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa, California.
Only their father knows why he chose to have them engineered in a sterile lab, and born in an anonymous clinic 9 656km from home. – Daily Mail