5 ridiculous stories related to Cristiano Ronaldo

#2 He’s had a ton of plastic surgery

Tabloids have used before/after photos like this one to claim Ronaldo has had plastic surgery

Few people would deny that Ronaldo is one of the vainest sportsmen around right now, and he’s perhaps the vainest footballer in the history of the game.

But has he really had plastic surgery to enhance his looks? In all honesty, despite a ton of reports claiming this – some almost making him out to be football’s Michael Jackson - there’s literally no evidence to suggest he has.

One English tabloid even claimed that the Portuguese star was likely spending a whopping £3.5k a year on botox injections and had spent up to £35k to have a nose job, a hair transplant and to get his teeth corrected.

The latter is perhaps the only believable part of this – but getting orthodontic treatment is something that thousands across the world do every year and probably shouldn’t be considered “plastic surgery” as such.

So what is the evidence? Most websites reporting this show ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos of Ronaldo; usually with the ‘before’ photos being pictures of him as a teenager at Manchester United.

But surely the same could be done with any human being using photos that far apart on the time scale – after all, who doesn’t look different as an adult than they looked as a teenager? Simply put, there’s nothing concrete to suggest that CR7 has had multiple plastic surgeries.