So, model/sex tape star/reality TV guru/fashionista Kim Kardashian is now sporting a 20.5-carat engagement ring… because, you know, 19 carats just isn’t enough when you want to stick it to your sister and famous exes.
Kimmie got the rock from her new fiance Kris Humphries last week. According to PEOPLE magazine, the 26-year-old pro basketball player knew the 30-year-old Kardashian clan member was “THE ONE” about six weeks after he started dating her. That was less than six months ago.
As the tabloids tell it, the New Jersey Nets forward surprised his famous girlfriend by waiting on bended knee in the bedroom of her Beverly Hills mansion with a proposal written in rose petals. To sweeten the deal Humphries presented his dream girl a custom-designed, 20.5-carat Lorraine Schwartz diamond sparkler.
Technically, the larger than life ring consists of a 16.5-carat emerald cut center stone flanked by a pair of 2-carat trapezoids, for a total weight of 20.5-carats, but who’s counting?
“I just knew I wanted it to be big,” Humphries told PEOPLE.
By the way, unconfirmed reports estimate the dazzler to be worth around two million dollars or just about half the amount Kimmie shelled out for her pimped out L.A. pad.
The massive bling leaves Kim’s sister Khloe’s 12.5-carat radiant-cut ring worth $850,000 in the dust. Khlo was given her rock by Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom whom she married less than a month after meeting.
Do you see a pattern emerging with the Kardashian sisters?
Kim’s rock also makes Carrie Underwood’s yellow-and-white 12-carat diamond dazzler (worth about $800,000) look like a pebble.
I get that 20 carats is going to grab headlines, but exactly what sort of message does all the talk about big bling send to young, impressionable girls who make up the bulk of Kardashian’s fan following?
What self esteem issues will they likely face when their own boyfriend’s ask for their hand in marriage one day with a measly half-carat sparkler? And what if, goodness forbid, the shiny crumb turns out to be cubic zirconia?
Oh, the horror? Will it mean the end of the relationship?
Of course, presenting your betrothed with a rock that weighs the equivalent of a deck and a half of playing cards, doesn’t always translate to a problem-free marriage, or even one that lasts beyond the first year. Still, you have to wonder what moms are saying to their wide-eyed daughters in the wake of Kim K. landing her perfect ring… I mean guy… I mean ring…
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