DUBAI: Saudi actress and model Rima Al-Anzi is scoring big on the internet due to the striking similarity between her and Argentinian model Georgina Rodríguez, who is footballer Cristiano Ronaldo’s long-time partner and now a resident of Saudi Arabia.
Over the past week, Rodríguez’s fans in the Middle East have been celebrating her arrival in Riyadh with Ronaldo, who has officially signed with Saudi Arabia’s Al-Nassr football club.
Al-Anzi shocked her 88.6 thousand TikTok followers this week with pictures that she shared of herself dressed in a similar outfit to the one Rodríguez wore to Ronaldo’s welcome ceremony, prompting a flurry of disbelief online.
In the pictures, Al-Anzi recreated Rodriguez’s pink-hued makeup look, which included rose-flushed cheeks and the on-trend brownie glazed lip.
Rodriguez wore a graceful maroon velvet abaya from Qatari brand Dollab Line. She completed the look with a black Max Mara turtleneck and classic bootleg blue jeans by Italian label Elisabetta Franchi, which Al-Anzi recreated.
“I love Georgina’s style,” the Saudi model told Arab News.
Al-Anzi recreated Rodriguez’s pink-hued makeup look. (Supplied)
Al-Anzi said that ever since she started her social media career, people have noticed the resemblance in their looks. “They always said I looked like her, but as I said before, Georgina was not a trend in Saudi Arabia that’s why there wasn’t this media buzz unlike now,” she explained.
The actress said that she has been receiving both negative and positive comments from social media users.
Al-Anzi said she gets stopped in public because people think she is Rodríguez. “I get really bothered, I swear,” she said. “I now hate going out in public a lot. Most of the questions I get are: ‘Where is Ronaldo’ or if I walk, they say ‘Siuu, Siuu, Siuu, Siuu," referring to the Portuguese footballer's famous celebration chant.
However, the model believes that Rodríguez and Ronaldo are “lucky” to be in Saudi Arabia. “She and Ronaldo got spoiled here and saw respect that they did not get in their country, Portugal. So, I am sure any international player would have wished to be in Cristiano’s position in Saudi Arabia.”
