Georgina's reality show: the envy show

The name of the new Netflix reality show that premieres this Thursday, Soy Georgina, says it all. The influencer, model and partner of Cristina Ronaldo opens a small window into her enigmatic world with this reality show. Who really knows who Georgina Rodríguez is? Her friends, Cristiano, her followers? Indeed, the reality show Soy Georgina allows you to see a part of Georgina Rodríguez through a small hole. The question is, is there more?

Soy Georgina is a kind of Spanish-style Kardashian show. To the Spanish because its protagonist is a Spanish, because for the rest it could perfectly be the reality show of the lost sister of the Kardashians. Luxury and fashion is clear. In fact, the day to day of Georgina Rodríguez is the day to day of envy, the envy that she produces in others. "I know what it's like to have nothing and I know what it's like to have everything," she says in the first episode of the reality show. And so it is.

In the first chapter of Soy Georgina, the Georgina Rodríguez from before Cristiano Ronaldo is touched on in passing. The influencer and the footballer talk about how they met in that Gucci store in Madrid. How it was at an event when they both realized they had fallen in love. How Georgina Rodríguez went to the store by bus every day and returned home in one of Cristiano Ronaldo's great cars. "He was waiting for me in a Bugati at the door. Imagine."

What neither of them doubt is that theirs was a crush at first sight. "She is the woman of life," she says several times during the reality show Cristiano Ronaldo. She was the woman in his life and the best mother for his four children. These are the most repeated phrases by the Juventus player during the first two episodes of Soy Georgina. And Georgina?

Georgina's role is to tell her day to day life and try to show the sweetest facet of her world. But only what she wants to see because the feeling that remains after seeing those first two chapters is that she is only scratching at the superficial layer of Georgina. As if the armor that she herself has put on to protect herself from her character was already part of her skin.

"I am Georgia Rodríguez, I am 27 years old and 5 years ago my life changed. Many know my name, few know who I am," she says at the start of the reality show. Soy Georgina allows you to see not only the Georginainfluencer, the Georgina surrounded by luxuries, but also the Georgina at home, the Georgina who organizes removals, picks up her children, prepares vacations or runs the dishwasher.

"At home we are like any other family," she says. Yes, in the images of her in a T-shirt scrubbing the pots from the sink or carrying boxes to the garage of her house in Turin, she looks like any other family, things change when she opens the dressing room, when she travels to Monaco, when she eats with the owner of Ferrari, when she goes to Paris to Jean Paul Gaultier's workshop to choose a dress for the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. There she is no longer one more. Georgina is fully aware of how lucky she is and has no qualms about saying so. She has lived both realities, both worlds.

Surrounded by all the luxuries that have come and gone, from a private jet to bags that are impossible for ordinary mortals to dream of, Georgina Rodríguez does not hide that part of her life that we all know. He has no qualms about showing it, showing it off, confirming the enjoyment of it and the joy of it that living like this means. What you feel when you see is no longer up to her.

Who would not like to live as Georgina Rodríguez lives? Because it's not just the comforts and opulence that are on display, it's that she genuinely enjoys it, it's that she's grateful at all times that she made her childhood dreams come true. Not a complaint, not a word of boredom, nothing, absolutely nothing that might make you think that no matter how much luxury you live in, everything has a price.

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"I feel like I'm living a dream," she repeats during the reality show on several occasions. The dream of having everything material, of living a luxurious life, but also the dream of having a family. "I have always had a highly developed maternal instinct, since I was little. I remember when I was a girl and before going to school I left my dolls ready and when I came back I took care of them and gave them walks around my house, which was a very small house, with the stroller. I love my children so much that they get everything from me," she says.

Her children always at the top. She says it herself, before she was a mother her priorities were others, now everything revolves around them. All day they are in her thoughts, at all times, every second. "The peace I need is at home with Cris and with our children." That's right, the Georgina you see at home, surrounded by her children and in her "temple", as she calls her home, is not the Georgina you see in Gaultier's workshop or on the way back from a meal with the owner from Ferrari.

That Georgina is colder, more of paper. The Georgina at home is the comfortable Georgina, the Georgina who loses WiFi and doesn't hesitate to drop a string of swear words and expletives. Yes, Georgina Rodríguez also loses WiFi; yes, Georgina Rodríguez also puts things for sale on Wallapop; yes, Georgina Rodríguez also likes to wear a tracksuit and sneakers.

Her friends, who are not many, but they are real, assure in the reality show that Georgina, Gio, as they call her, is not different from the Georgina before Cristiano. "She is generous, family, joker ...", they say about her. At one point in the reality show, Georgina writes a WhatsApp at 01:00 in the morning to the group of her friends, Las Queridas -because Georgina always addresses her friends as dear or dear- to tell them that if they want to live a adventure. She invites all of them to the yacht that Cristiano has docked in Monaco the week of the Monaco Grand Prix.

Friends arrive first, like Pedro at her house, Georgina arrives later with all her children -always with them-. It is the scene in which Georgina is most relaxed. On the deck of the yacht, surrounded by all of them, talking about what it was and what it is now, about what they say and write about it -"I receive few criticisms"-, about those who speak without knowing or knowing who it is in true Gio. It is there where she shows the earthly Georgina, the Georgina Rodríguez who jokes, laughs, swears and walks away, despite the jewels that adorn her, from the opulence that she does not let go beyond, that does not let Georgina reach .

Soy Georgina is a portrait of the woman behind the covers, the photos, the stories and the big headlines, but she is also the portrait of those covers, of those stories, of those big headlines. She goes to Paris, one of her best friends accompanies her, one of her bodyguards takes photos of her with her cell phone on the steps of Cristiano's jet, she gets on, enjoys the catering that they have prepared for her, confesses her love for food, arrives at Paris, to Gaultier, chooses the dress, returns, meets Cristiano again at the airport, returns home with her children. The two Georginas, the two Gios.

The reality show is a trip around, but not with, Georgina Rodríguez. She marks the times, she marks what she wants her to see, what she wants her to know, what she wants to reveal. When someone is as enigmatic as Georgina Rodríguez, when everyone thinks they know a lot about her, but in reality they don't know anything, when you can see what you already know she has, but also what you would never imagine, it means that whoever exposes , that is, Georgina, is looking for a goal, to be known beyond social networks or magazine covers. I'm Georgina meets? You will have to judge yourself.