Kate Bosworth announced her engagement to Michael Polish in August, when she referred to him as her “fiancé” in a blog post on Vogue. But Kate wasn’t sure if we got the point, so one month later, she posted a photo of her engagement ring on Twitter with yet another confirmation. That was last week. Since then, Kate and Michael have been seen and photographed nearly every day, and in every photo op, Kate has been showing off her ring. These photos are from yesterday’s daily “Look at my engagement ring!” photo op.
Now, I understand. I get it. She’s happy, she’s in love, and she got the ring, and she wants to show it off. I think it’s cute to a certain extent – she’s really proud and she wants all of the photographers to get a good shot of it. But at a certain point, doesn’t it seem like overkill? Doesn’t it seem like business as usual in the famewhore game? She already tweeted a photo of the ring. Does she need to walk around with her left hand propped up for the rest of the month? I’m really asking. When I get a new piece of jewelry, I show it off too. I keep fiddling with it and looking at it (if it’s a ring or something). Maybe it’s just like that?
Or maybe Kate is wandering around with her hand up, giving the paparazzi a good shot, and she’s thinking to herself, “Yes, eat your heart out, Alex Skarsgard! I moved on to someone better!”
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
haha. I totally felt like this when I got engaged. like, distracted by the new shiny on my hand. Didn’t have papparazzi pics though.
I did the same thing, always holding my hand up when I talked, usually on a subconscious level. I wanted people to notice, but I wasn’t intentionally shoving my ring in their face, I was just really excited about being engaged.
Normally I don’t care for Kate Bosworth, but her flashing her ring around doesn’t bother me.
Me too! But my ring is a lot prettier (and bigger) than hers. Na na na na na!
See, normally I would agree that the freshly engaged should be given some leeway to the ring flashing but she’s been doing that left-hand-drape since she started with Polish and had the life partner ring.
THANK YOU!! No normal person walks around in some of the uncomfortable looking poses these 2 freaks do….. just to show off the “life partner ” rings. Nobody cared with that, nobody cared with the supposed fiance slip, nobody cared about stupid looking twitter picture and still nobody cares.
Yep. I think she’d be given more slack and actually, maybe, be happy for her, but they’ve been doing this for over a year. Seems a little too try hard.
Well, she needs something to take attention away from those God-awful black suede granny shoes complete with orthopedic square heel, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friends, but shoes are your sole mate!
totally this! i would actually check to make sure it was still there a couple times a day lol. once i realized it wasn’t going anywhere, i stopped. now i get self-conscious when i see people looking at it!
Well I would rather look at Kate’s ring than her fugly meterosexual fiancé. Sorry but there is nothing I find attractive about Michael Polish. Especially when you realize she dated the viking giant known as Alexander Skarsgaard. Talk about a downgrade.
Totally agree, Leeloo! She coulda had some cute Svedish babies.
The stone is as scrawny as she is.
And her fiance looks as thin and ratty as her hair.
Ew.
Downgrade.
Hobbit looks like a creepy molesting serial killer
IDK if was here, but someone said the guy looks just like the douche neighbor on Christmas Vacation (who was married to Julia L Dreyfuss in the movie), and he really does.
That’s all I see now!
you’re right! maybe we’ll get to see the pic of her punching him in the face.. (that’s the only way I’d care about this couple)
Zig you totally called it! Hahahahaha!
I agree he looks like a douche.
I just read a recent article on her the Daily Mail. Look at the bottom pictures where it is a head shot and she is turned to the side.
Doesn’t it look like she has a bruise around her neck. It’s red, like someone had a hand around her throat.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2216772/Kate-Bosworth-flashes-skin-quirky-asymmetric-skirt-floral-shirt-combo-Preen.html
I find her insufferable, but that’s really just the way she naturally walks. Pictures of her from like five years ago she walks with her hand up like that. It’s weird but not (completely) intentional.
She did used to do it *occasionally*, but she started to do it WAY more when she and Michael Polish got the “life partner” rings. Now it looks like she’s just doing it constantly. She could at least put her purse on that arm so it would look somewhat normal.
Check in your mirror; “shiny” objects may be bigger than they really are.
LOL!
I don’t care about the ring but I do care about the fact she’s wearing socks in her shoes…
What is going on with her legs/ankles? Bad spray tan? Some kind of leggings? I can’t figure it out but it’s all I can see in the pictures.
Some kind of sheer socks…? Hadn’t even noticed till your post, but yeah, now it’s really distracting me too.
Seriously… the socks? WTF?!?!?!?
I don’t think it’s actual socks, it looks like she HAD black ankle socks on and went swimming, went to bed and they left a stain…
I had a friend who looked like that in school. She always appeared to have rings around her ankles & she had horrible circulation. Her feet & hands were always cast in blue.
I just cannot stand this woman! Why exactly is she even a blip in the papparazzi radar? She’s been in a handful of movies, none of which have been good and she’s dated a couple of actors. Big whoop!
Where is it; oh I see it; I think.
Meh let her enjoy it. All newly engaged women should be allowed to flaunt that shit all they want for at least a little while because it’s the last moment of total bliss before her bridezilla days begin, and then of course, there’s the harsh reality of what marriage is actually like lmao. So knock yourself and be happy one last time!
Also, three of my aquaintances are friends and got engaged. They all took a picture of their hands with their rings, together. One of them seriously has the smallest, cheapest, I swear to you, 10 dollar joke of a ring. It’s pathetic. It’s nothing. It’s literally a piece of crap. Her fiance is not poor at all. Not at all. He spends much more in boozing with the boys in ONE night. WTF. Girls, don’t say yes to that sh-t. That ring is a symbol and should last a life time and he should to his best in getting you a good one, because it’s for you and you only, the one he wants to be with forever, supposedly anyway. Plain and simple. I felt so bad for her. It was almost insulting considering the dude spends more on xbox games.
ROTFLMAO I Snorted out loud at this story/ring description
Felt guilty because of it, but me too. LOL
Oh I’m the exact opposite. I hate rings and I HATE gaudy jewelry. If a guy gave me a huge ring I would turn him down because he either doesn’t know me at all or he doesn’t care and is just going to do whatever he wants even if it’s allegedly for me. Either way it’s a no, or at least a not right now.
And I know I’m not the only one (although I might be the only one that feels quite that stongly); One of my best friends even set a $300 cap on her engagement ring (but she said it would be great if he could get something for $100 or less), and another was so proud that her husband found a nice one at an antique shop (one that is fairly small by today’s standards).
Men definitely need to fork up good bucks on your engagement ring. Period. Don’t say yes to a piece of crap. It’s insulting that he doesn’t take the effort in giving you something special. Consider this: it’s highly likely that your dad is paying for the wedding, traditionally anyway. Or that you are paying for half. Weddings are not cheap. His economic contribution should be – even as a thank you and to be polite and grateful to your family – a nice engagement ring.
It doesn’t have to be a giant tacky stone. Or something he can’t afford unless he sold his house. But it should be an expensive thing within the range of what he can afford: three monts of salary or more. Nowadays you can even pay them in 12 months. If he doesn’t care to do that it says a lot about him. My brother in law gave my sis a very unimpressive ring too. Gues what type of husband he is: the selfish one who buys new stuff for himself everytime and not for her. Ever.
My point is – make an effort. Show you care and want to impress. An engagement ring is only a fraction of what a wedding party costs, and it’s pretty comfortable for him to not put a dime in any way. Bad sign.
Good ring or GTFO.
I don’t want a ring at all, but according to you he *has* to spend three months salary on a ring or he’s a horrible person? (Which is an obscene amount that almost no one follows anymore anyway. Just google “three months salary engagement ring rule” and you’ll see no one agreeing with it.)
Your whole take on who pays for the wedding is… interesting. The only person who I know who plans to have her parents parents pay for the wedding also doesn’t think that women should drive. (Seriously.) Everyone I know pays for their own wedding with a little bit of help from both sides of the family.
And I’m sorry if that was rude, but I found your response incredibly rude and offensive. I wasn’t criticizing you wanting a big ring, I was just saying that rings aren’t important to everyone so you shouldn’t judge people that have different desires than you. (Which you clearly chose to ignore.) My friend who requested a maximum $300 ring? She can’t wear rings to work and would rather spend the money on a vacation. Her boyfriend knows that. Wouldn’t him buying her something wasteful that she doesn’t want instead of the trip that she does want be insulting and a sign that he doesn’t care?
@KC – I’m with you. You’re not making a huge life decision, like marriage, based on a ring. It’s supposed to be about love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with that one special person. If you demand an expensive ring, you are shallow and getting engaged for the wrong reasons.
My fiancé didn’t even get me a ring. He bought me a beautiful and simple necklace that was very representative of me. It was also very personal to our relationship. (I have rheumatoid arthritis and can’t wear rings because of the swelling.) I figured he’d still get me a ring, but he put extra thought into it and got me something I can wear on any day. It’s about the man, not a piece of jewelry!
@Lamb: Thank you for saying what I meant to say but in a much better way.
I’m glad your fiancé understood you enough to get you the perfect engagement gift for you! I actually have arthritis too so I wouldn’t be able to wear a ring daily either, although I decided I didn’t want a ring years before the joint pain became an issue. (They’re just not “me”.) I’ve always hoped that I’ll find a guy that will do exactly what your fiancé did. (But I’ll understand if he really wants to give me a ring as long as he understands I can’t wear it most days.) Congratulations!
I now have 2 wedding rings. The first set the engagement ring goes with and is pretty impressive but my stupid ass wore it at work and decided to remove it with a pair of gloves after assisting in surgery…. I won’t gross anyone out with what I had to search through to find it. After that hubby got me a simple diamond band to wear at work now… still too much if u ask me but whatever no more digging in ick!
It used to always be a 2 month salary thing- which is still obscene.
My boyfriend and I went ring shopping together. We aren’t engaged yet, though he has purchased the ring we picked out. Since I’ve seen the ring, he wants to surprise me with a proposal. With tax, and a warranty it came to around 1200. Certainly not 3 months saralary, and I still feel INCREDIBLY guilty with the price. We’ve been together since we were 14, and both just finished school, and found jobs in our respective careers. We’re saving for a house. My ring is a .41 carat solitaire. It’s nothing incredibly fancy, but it’s beautiful. At the end of the day, it’s just a piece of jewelry though. An engagement isn’t about the jewelry. It’s about your love and commitment for eachother.
If he bought me a cracker jack box ring, I’d say yes. If your relationship is built solely on material possession, it’s probably not going to last.
And re: the husband never buying the wife anything- can’t she buy HERSELF new things? If he’s using his money for the things he needs to use it for, and has leftover to spend on his toys, who cares!? Your whole post seems very set in sexist beliefs, Annie.
My husband didn’t buy me a ring at all. We’ve never had much money & I would have been PISSED if he’d spent our rent or gas money on a ring? Did I want one? Sure, who wouldn’t? But I wanted a roof over my head more. My mom & dad had one made for me out of my grandparent’s rings & it means so much more to me than if he’d gone to a store & picked one out.
I did get a really nice pair or diamond earrings when my son was born, though 😉
I really don’t understand why she gets papped as much as she does. She has to call them because really, does anyone care about her anymore? I can’t believe she’s not even 30 & looks this bad.
She calls them. All these irrelevant Ashley Greenes call them.
Maybe soon they’ll stop going when she calls?
Seriously, what’s up with her ankles? I don’t even notice the ring, the hand… I can only see those marks or color change from the ankles down. Weird.
Except that she didn’t. Move on to someone better, that is. It still cracks me up that her “team” are still trying to front like she cheated on AS. As if. She basically stalked him at the end. Meanwhile, Skars is somewhere not giving a f*.
Its the signature move of another famous Kate…the Duchess of Cambridge. Its hard to find a picture where the DoC is not showing off her left hand.
THAT Kate has every rights to flash her rock. It’s actually worth ogling.
I mean I get that she is excited, but who really cares about these two underfed fools getting married?
You know what, best of luck to her. I’d be showing off my engagement ring too if by some miracle I had one 😉
On another note, does anyone know where her bag is from? I LOVE it!
It’s Proenza Schouler
Thanks Krissie!
Ugh. I can’t wait till Fashion Week is over so she can get out of my city and I won’t have to see pics of her every other day. And she’s been doing that pose with her hand ever since she had her ‘life partner’ ring. Oy.
that dude is creepy looking
I didnt notice the ring because of her awful hairdo! Get a decent haircut and get rid of that stringy mess.
Also, her fiance is ugly.
(Wow, am I in a negative mood or what???? ^_^)
For some reason, she brings out the negative in a lot of people – me included. Ugh … that hair. She can be wearing the best clothes, shoes, bags, whatever, and that hair ruins it every time. That, or her weird posing that makes her look like her head is too heavy for her body to hold upright. What do these two do other than shop and pose again?
She’s flaunting it? Where is it? Let me get my magnifying glass lol
Burn !
I really like her shoes. Look really soft, comfortable and old school
That dood’s face is so long, he really needs hair that goes out rather than slicked back, to add balance.
Agree. That guy’s hair-forehead situation is unfortunate.
Yes, eat your heart out, Alex Skarsgard! I moved on to someone better!”
Someone BETTER.
bwahahahaha, WAIT MP hahaha. no seriously that was sarcastic right? Right?! Better that Alex bwahahahaha dying just dying. She should have done what BL did but we know no ones cares to find out anyways so she will keep forcing us to look at it. Good one it’s the funniest thing I have read all day. bwahahahaha Bettter dying.
Wow..who ever though Kate Bosworth would be the anti-Blake Lively?..goodness gracious
The pictures- Total. Shoe. Hell.
Like ninth circle hell.
BTW, what gives, Kaiser- no close up of the bauble? *giggles* After all, it’s such tremendous and earth shattering news.
“Total. Shoe. Hell.”
You got that right. Yuck.
Honestly, I’m glad she’s got a ring, so she doesn’t have to latch onto another co-star. Let’s get her off the streets, so to speak.
She probably realized that she wasn’t going to have any new costars any time soon since she hasn’t even been rumored to be in the running for any new projects in the past year except for that Lifeguard movie that sounded horrible and that she didn’t get anyway.
@Kaiser: Your last sentence pretty much sums up my thoughts about it perfectly.
And her new guy doesn’t (at least) look like an upgrade to me lol.
Also, how hideous is the shoe situation in these photos, yikes.
on the other hand, this broad may be delusional enough to think that people WANT to see her ring< I mean she thinks she is a big deal(and so does Polish, thats why she;s marrying him)sad
Her fiancé looks like the Caucasian version of Mark Anthony. It sure is a down grade after dating Orland Bloom and Alexander Skarsgaard. But she is not a looker herself and does she ever work?
LOL at all the shoe hate. They are the only thing I actually like about her outfit; the bag is okay though, it looks like a mini leather satchel on a chain. I know the shoes are not particularly pretty, but I think they’re a nice walking around heel that you could use for casual or dressy-casual looks. Basically they’re practical (for a heel), but still nice.
No she doesn’t have socks on, it looks more like she had boots before and they left stains. She should have scrubbed harder.
Is this her way of saying F U to Alex because he probably refused to marry her?
She’s finally found someone who worships the ground she walks on. She needs everything to be all about her. So happy she’s not with Askars anymore.
Yeah, doesn’t she sponsor some jewelery line that has bought out every youtube “guru” personality, whatever, from her to Timbucktu. It’s called JewelMint or something.
what a looser that lost orly
Oh geeze, he looks gross, skinny, unmasculine…a dude wearing-nurse-shoes (but not a nurse), and seemingly trying too hard.
It’s just too much, or not enough, or not even worth analyzing, which I just did. Grossssssssssssssss & nast.
I must be alone in this but I think she is absolutely gorgeous, and she hasn’t p*ssed in my cornflakes or whatever it is she seems to have done to most of the women on here.
She’s not ugly, but she’s a fairly cookie-cutter type HW/fashion blonde.
She hasn’t pissed in our cornflakes, but she’s annoying because, back 10 years ago when she actually got acting jobs, she seems to have focused on the fame instead of maintaining acting talent.
She’s hardly the only one, but rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
Wasn’t she the one that had the affair w/Goop Paltrows husband Chris Martin &he called her the young version of goop????
he reminds me of a cross between christophuh from “the sopranos” and a goat. judging only by appearances kate definitely traded down when she dumped the viking sex god for polish.
yeah, i’m a shallow bitch.
I like half of her skirt.
Wasn’t she the one that had the affair w/Goop Paltrows husband Chris Martin & he called her the young version of goop????
Yes the “socks” shadow was probably left by those gray booties she wore every single day for years. They probably imploded and I’m glad.
Those shoes are hideous. And so is her man. LOL Girl, 5 steps down from ASkars. Srsly.
She shoulda held onto ASkars and had some cute Svedish babies.
He’s just another example of her ghastly taste.