Well, well. It looks like all of those “sources” were right! Miranda Kerr is officially engaged to billionaire Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel. Miranda is 33, Evan is 26. The age difference is no big deal – we wouldn’t blink if the ages were reversed – except that Evan seems a lot younger. He seems like he’s still a frat bro in college. I’ve long suspected that Miranda is useful to Evan for that reason: she legitimizes him (somewhat) as an “adult,” as a player, as someone who should be taken seriously. As for what he brings to the table for Miranda… well…I mean, I can only guess.
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel is celebrating his engagement to Miranda Kerr, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. The supermodel accepted the proposal from the 26-year-old tech superstar, who she has been dating for two years.
‘They are extremely happy,’ a spokesperson for the Snapchat CEO told DailyMail.com exclusively. Miranda started dating Stanford University graduate Evan in June 2015 after meeting at a fashion industry dinner.
Reportedly, Evan was ready to propose months ago but they were just bickering about the prenup. I assume Miranda will have to sign a prenup at some point (if she hasn’t already), but I also suspect that she’s going to get knocked up in a hurry, don’t you?
Miranda confirmed the news… on Instagram and Snapchat (although most people are just talking about the IG). She posted a photo of her ring (below), which is reportedly a 2.5 carat round diamond with two baguette diamonds. Us Weekly spoke to “jewelry expert Michael O’Connor” who says that ring probably cost something like $55,000. Which is a decent chunk of change for me, but Evan is a BILLIONAIRE. And the general rule is to spend two months’ salary. How does one calculate that when one is a billionaire? That O’Connor guy goes on and on about how the ring is understated and beautiful and “the couple decided on a timeless style that proves they ‘don’t need to try.’” Yes, that’s just what you want your ring to say: “He didn’t want to try.” I think it looks like He Went To Jared.
PS… These are still my favorite photos of the happy couple. The raw sexuality of these photos!
Photos courtesy of Instagram, Fame/Flynet, WENN.
Two months salary? What is wrong with people?
55k is a stupid amount of money to second on a ring. It’s too big for my taste anyway.
Miranda and Pippa should write a book or something. Golddigging for dummies. It would sell better than Pippatips.
that rules comes from the people making money with those rings. i dont know why people follow it.
agreed. i would have socked my now-husband if he’d spent that much. that’s a wasted 6 grand and i doubt i would have been comfortable wearing it every day.
The ring is gorgeous, tasteful by not weighing her hand down by being a ridiculous size. In their privileged world It’s one of the nicest rings I’ve seen for a long time.
This. Engagement rings in general started as a marketing scheme by a jeweller. Amazing how gullible people can be. If you want an engagement ring, that’s fine, but bear that in mind
It didn’t actually. There are some reports of engagement rings going as far back as Ancient Egypt, but a jeweller in States made it popular again after the tradition kinda stopped.
Yeah I used to run a jewellery store and I never once pushed anyone to overspend. I always told them to choose the ring which suits the woman. So many guys felt guilty when they were drawn to rings which were cheaper than what they felt obligated to spend.
My ring was significantly underbudget. Like 75% less than what we budgeted to spend. But I still love my ring even though it isn’t huge or flashy.
Keepsake Diamonds started using it in their ads in the 1970s and I’ve seen it in DeBeers ad campaigns for years. I was a jeweler and found people either stated the two months income line outright, or decided on a ring based on what they could afford. some decided to open a credit line with the store and bought based on how much the monthly payment would be.
50k??? For a ring???
In my world that is a very nice holiday (honeymoon anybody?) and an economic second car (second-hand) and a nice bank deposit!!!
You don’t get married for the jewelry, do you? Well, Miranda Kerr … different matter. The ring is beautiful and much more elegant than that of this Wallis-Simpson-faced perma-baked sister-of failed party tips writer.
Hell to the yees
I like it better than Pippa’s man-ring monstrosity.
Agree, Pippa’s ring is U.G.L.Y.
I love the cut of her center stone but i feel the rest of the ring is overdone. It would have been gorgeous as a simple solitaire, that diamond is plenty without adding more flash.
Oooooh I love a simple solitaire!! It’s never, ever going to go out of style and it really shows off the cut of the stone.
Pippa, you too cute for that setting.
I feel that Pippa tried hard to find something that looked like it was an heirloom that looked like it had been in the family for generations. Only it hasn’t. That is why it looks so chunky = equals “old” in Pippa’s mind. Medieval family heirloom is what Pips likes best.
I agree, I’ve always thought that really big diamond rings look tacky, like costume jewellery.
big diamond rings (or other) can look sophisticated if executed in style and worn in confidence. Neither Middleton girl manages.
Diana would have managed to make costume jewelry look like the real stuff. But these Middleton girls …
I think the “engagement-wedding” culture is ridiculous. I think it’s stupid for women to expect to be offered a very expensive ring just because their significant other is loaded. Plus her ring is huge and indeed very expensive. That’s the price of my apartment in Bucharest! What the heck?! And I don’t care if he’s a billionaire. I’m sure he’ll sped a lot more on the wedding itself, on the house they’ll live in or on all the travelling they’ll be doin’. As long as she likes the ring it shouldn’t matter the price.
Congrats to Miranda and Pippa hahahaha!
55k is a good amount for a billionaire. Laura from basketball wives got 1million ring, but never made it down aisle. Such a waste.
I read the debeers scheme years ago and sent it to my friend to read. He’s planning on going into the Catholic priesthood someday, so we ended up discussing rings and marriage.
At the end of it, I told him if someone I was serious about did this, I’d March the guy back down to the jewellery store, make him return it, and use the money to for a down payment on a house. My friend literally stops talking and when he finally opens his mouth again, the only he says is “whoever marries you is going to be so happy that you’re so low maintenance.” LOL. 😂
Actually I agree with you. What is the point of having a five-figured sum dangling from your finger? Car, holiday, new furniture, bank deposit, mortgage downpayment … all so much more useful especially if you want to LIVE in a relationship. That is what it is about, right?
Btw. I do get what Pippa gets out of that marriage. A sh**load of dough. But what does he get? There are lots of girls far more pretty and far more successful career-wise. There are more pretty + more interesting women with a decent career who make a good partner.
Instead Mr-billionaire-investor choses a bird that never learned to fly. Pips never got to make it on her own feet financially or career-wise and she is over 30!!!! Pips finished University years ago (nearly a decade) but no steady job nor employment. ???
Honestly if Mr-billionair-investor would marry Miranda Kerr then at least it were obvious what it were about and she is pretty and she has had a career and she doesn’t have a face like something terribly dry like Pips.
well obviously. no one dates a billionaire casually.
Miranda has been in it to win it with this guy. Her hustle is way more ferocious than I would have given her credit for when she first popped on the scene.
And agreed, she’s going to get pregnant very fast I think with more than one in quick succession. She seems like a good mom so whatevs. Another trust fund bro baby.
Yep she had her eye on the prize. First Packer and then Steve Bing. They are all billionaires ( don’t quote me) , so it’s clear that money was a factor. I will say out of all of them Evan is the better looking one.
@Aussie girl
Agreed. And I have to admit I never thought her plan would come to fruition.
But that Kia gif is needed right now,
I know, this girl’s got game. Well done, Miranda. *Golf clap*
Engagement but not yet married. We will see. If she drops the ball now . . .
Remember once upon a time she had James Packer and Steve Bing, too.
Wasn’t she the one who moved in with Mariah Carey’s (now) fiancé as soon as she divorced Orlando Bloom? That guys twice this guy’s age.,guess she doe$n’t have a type…
Her type is male, white and wealthy post Orlando.
Her type is RICH!!!!!!
Yep, she certainly appeared to have a type – billionaire (that’s after Orlando )
I love that the ring doesn’t look like a gaudy cocktail ring, but why does it look like she has six fingers in the photo?
Her left hand is over his hand.
That Instagram photo makes me laugh. Evan on one knee proposing and Miranda looking at the camera with a ” I am so surprised! I was not expecting this look”
Remember Miranda, you are just engaged. You still have to get this guy to actually marry you
i mean he’s a billionaire so i get it, but she doesn’t have the best taste in men.
I love that ring! Classic Harry Winston style.
Agree! It is timeless and lovely.
How is June 2015 to now 2 years? Anyway, considering a lot of the rings celebrity women get proposed to with are worth hundreds of thousands, 55K is not much, I’m surprised he went small and “cheap”, but good for him not getting pressured to go huge and tacky.
The ring is small. For a billionaire. These people move in international moneyed circles. Miranda’s going to have to sit around with all of the other billionaire wives and their diamond knuckle-draggers *shakes head*. She’d better have a good story to tell or some compensatory jewels.
I know a billionaire is a billionaire BUT this (toe) ring, plus the rumors of a draconian prenup tells me a lot about how he views his finances. And sharing them.
Good luck Miranda! Props for a well played game of marry-the-billionaire.
“tells me a lot about how he views his finances”
What it tells me is that he is smart. Any man or woman marrying a far less wealthy person should get a prenup.
Heck, everyone should get prenups and avoid future nasty legal battles.
@ Carisse
The tighter the dough the more the children?
Also: courts are known to shred prenups which are too unfair towards one party.
I am not sure if it is legit to deduce small ring = stingy billionaire. Perhaps neither of them had a thing for rings. Perhaps the ring they wanted wasn’t there so they chose a smaller one temporarily. Perhaps Miranda is playing this: “I love you not your money small ring will do (for now)”
Look I’m an Aussie but I seriously cannot stand this chick. She gives Aussie chicks a bad name. All her hippie, organic schtick is so boring because she’s about as hippie as Trump and is equally obsessed with money as that orange faced baboon.
But Anyhoo she will have her work cut out for her, marrying a billionaire. I give it two years.
Agree snowpea
Aussie girl are you a Sydney girl? There’s a few of us Aussies lurking around here these days!
No snowpea I just scrape it in over the NSW border in Albury. I’m originally a Melbourne girl though 😊
Hi there, fellow Aussies! I also agree with you, Snowpea. MK has always presented herself as a new-age, hippie chick, all Mother-Earthy and sweetness and light,, but apparently, it’s an act. One of my sisters-in-law has been part of the David Jones Fashion Committee for many years, and has never had anything nice to say about her. Let’s just say she’s known as “hard work”, professionally speaking, and leave it at that.
Oh I love insider gossip!!
The serval interviews I seen or head her do in Oz she has always came across as an empty vessel. Perhaps she doesn’t translate well in these interview forms but yeah she really came across as dense.
She is focused. And international notoriety and too much gossip pages about you apparently ruin your chances to marry a billionaire.
I don’t like the golddigger stench either.
Snowpea, You hit the nail on the head. Her game is ferocious as one said. She will need two kids,to get any decent money out of this guy. I personally love a big diamond. Grace Kelly’s emerald cut is at my top limit. I was a late bride with a house and no kids so we went pretty big-but went as close,to the source as I could in Tel Aviv. But a do agree with all of the folks that it is wasted money-I am still happy with my wasted money.
A happy marriage celebration is no waste. It is consumed and shared with the family.
50.000 Dollars dangling from your finger is a waste. Or worse: a status symbol that is supposed to scare off other golddiggers.
“that orange faced baboon” 😂😂😂
Agreed. Ugh., I’m Australian living in Southern California and I’m embarrassed by her. Your comment about her being a hippie trump is spot on!
I have to say, the ring is fine, whatever but I liked the one from Orlando Better.
Agreed, she’ll be laughing on the other side of her face before long.
Do you fellow Aussies remember when she won the Dolly model competition? There was such a furore because she was so young, I think 13. I am the same age as her and at the time I was all fired up with teenagerness about the Mean Adults judging her for being young. It’s a shame she turned out to be such a piece of work.
Yes, I remember! And I had the same reaction you did when there was controversy over her win. I used to be a fan of Miranda’s until I realised she was a massive diva.
That’s a really pretty ring. Those million dollar rings with diamonds bigger than your head are ugly. I don’t think Evan should be mocked for getting a “cheap” ring. Also I wonder if they’ll actually get married. Miranda seems too smug or something. I don’t get the “I love him” vibe from her.
His body language is not good in those pictures. He’s not into her.
he is just very awkward and does not seem to have a lot of experience with women. of course he is into her, its not like she forced himself on him and he couldnt find anyone else. he is a techbro and certainly attracted to dumb models. i doubt he would ask her to marry him if he wasnt into her. he has got more to loose from a possible marriages than she does.
I think the opposite. He looks like an awkward little boy ( and wow he IS little very tiny boy) and she looks like she is going through the motions.
I don’t see any RAW sexuality between these two at ALL.
And he is so tiny. For a man.. I mean boy. Lift some weight dude.
I think he looks fine. Not all men need to be muscular. It’s the douche written all over his face that makes him unattractive.
I know. I was wondering, was that sarcasm?
I noticed his boychik arms right away, yikes.
I don’t get the “rules” about any spending (apart from 10% for the waiter when happy with the survice).
I like the ring alot, the money he spent is not much for a billionaire and its a simple, kinda classic look. When celebs spend a mil or more, is when I give them a hard eye roll.
I see she finally got what she has been campaigning for, she goes hard huh?
I haven’t seen pics of her adorable son in a while.
Most of the time the focus is on the gold digging woman. The truth is the rich husband gets to marry a young, gorgeous woman AND have beautiful children. This is huge!! These guys are thinking of their legacy. They want the picture perfect family. Miranda, make him pay for that!!
Oh, I think it’s a quid pro quo situation. These women probably wouldn’t marry these guys if they weren’t rich, nor would these guys marry these women if they weren’t beautiful. Everybody wins ( or loses). Now, they might be together for all the right reasons and I’m just oh so very cynical, but it’s Miranda Kerr we’re talking about.
Wasn’t it Marla Maples who on being asked if she’d have married Donald without the money, asked if he would have married her without her looks? It may have been some other trophy wife but I think it does hold true – if a man marries a supermodel it may not be her intelligent conversation he’s interested in.
@ Tia
No, it was Melania who said that
You are all so CYNICAL!!! This is what true love looks like! I mean WHY can’t a billionaire frat-bro in his mid-20s be the soulmate to a gorgeous VS model? You rarely see the rich guy marry a model, it must be the real deal! It’s their personalities that attract them to each other for sure.
Isnt she also worth 30 million ? How can she be a gold digger ? I doubt there are a lot of things 30 million cannot buy
There is a HUGE difference between the millionaire lifestyle and the billionaire lifestyle.
There is also a HUGE difference between what these magazines claim you are worth, and how much you actually have.
-There are apartments in New York which cost 26 mill.
-Pippa Middleton’s fiance has a house worth 17 mill (pounds).
-Paul Allen’s yacht is worth around 100 million.
It all depends on how much *stuff* you want, who you hang with, and how competitive you are with them.
The fact that he got such a reasonable ring makes me think that 1) they will actually make it down the aisle and 2) he’s not going to be parted from his money quite as easily as he thought.
I think that Miranda will indeed try and get knocked up like yesterday but there were rumors that she tried the same thing with Packer and no baby materialized.
She is holding onto him like her life depends on it (and probable it does).
I wish them the best of luck; hopefully they won’t need it.
I know he’s “worth” 2bil but isn’t that really tied up in the value of his ownership % of SnapChat – not cash or liquid assets on hand. So really this ring may have been right in line with his actual CEO salary from a company that isn’t turning that great of a profit yet!
“So really this ring may have been right in line with his actual CEO salary from a company that isn’t turning that great of a profit yet!” Well said. He is not a billionaire.
This girl’s game play is on point! Write that book Miranda -“How to bag the billionaire!”.
It used to be that models “settled” for multi-millionaire rockers or actors. Now they have to lock down billionaires. Times have changed!
They’re allowing for inflation 😉
No chemistry at all. None.
Miranda is going with the supermodel retirement plan. At least he’s not a shady Russian Oligarch, or a 60 year old hedge fund guy.
She got a billionaire who doesn’t look like a troll. (Unlike Jerry Hall.) So kudos for finally locking that down.
I actually think the ring is really pretty and elegant. A 2.5 round cut really looks closer to 3-3.5, especially if it’s set higher. It also looks like its D grade vvsII with no marks so it prob shines like crazy. Who needs a ring to prove you’re rich when you have access to his bank account??
More likely IF/D if $55k for 2ct.
Not true. I have a 2 carat cushion cut in pave halo setting, D, VVSI, $15k. It’s only at such a high mark up if you go to a retailer. My husband went a wholesaler and bought the ring and the stone separately.
Of course. Remember when she tried to lock down James Packer? She truly had no shame.
Prenup will be tighter than a bug’s butt…
Guess they worked out the pre-nup to her satisfaction. Yeah, the proposal was a real shock! Sure. I think her ring is nice for a big diamond. Some of them look like something you’d find in a candy popcorn box as a prize! Gaudy and too big on their finger. Horrible! Money does not equal taste in so many cases, obviously!
As for Miss Miranda, she lost my respect when I saw how she treated Orlando Bloom. He clearly truly loved her and their son and was in it for life. She clearly felt his star wasn’t shining brightly enough and dumped him to find someone with more money before her looks or figure started fading, and she jumped from one billionaire to another until she managed to hook this guy. It’s pretty clear in the pictures that she is playing a role and isn’t that into him, imo. Zero passion and he looks like he’s barely out of his teens. I have a son his age! I have zero respect for women who just marry or have children for money, so they can live a luxurious life. I think it’s very sad to have children with someone you don’t really love just so you can get a good income coming in. Of course, maybe I’m just cynical and she’s a wonderful, sweet girl who truly in love with this guy and if that’s the case, congrats to them. Hope they have a happy life. (but I doubt it).
If she wasn’t beautiful he wouldn’t be with her. She’s marrying for money, he’s marrying for looks. She’s not the only one marrying for the wrong reasons, so don’t just make her the villain when there seems to be two of them.
I do not think anyone cares about him at all, he is not famous. That is why there are no comments about his behavior.
Totally agree.
Neither she nor Pippa are married…yet
Where can i get a ‘terribly rich TM’ man?
Like Pips she will lock this one down with a wedding and kids asap!
When marrying a terribly rich (TM) man, ensure you discreetly stop taking birth control precautions. #PippaTips
One ladder rung at a time. Isn’t she still technically married to Bloomie though? It’ll take some time to finish that bit I’d imagine😉. She’d better get cracking on that new baby anchor. Maybe the airlines will finally find her lost wedding dress so she can actually use it this time around.
I don’t think they ever actually got married.
Their pure, raw, organic love warms the cockles of my cold, dark heart.
I think it’s TASTEFUL in size. (But cracked me up Kaiser when you said it looked like he went to Jared because it straight up DID.)
That Instagram photo is so tacky!
Way to go, toddler-face.
I think engagement rings are nonsense in general, but I actually don’t mind this one. I know nothing (nor do I care) about diamond cut/quality, but this ring is much more aesthetically pleasing to me than those hideous halo things that seem to be popular.
Good luck to both of them. I think around the time he’s 40 he will be looking for a new trophy wife.
Agreed. But I doubt she will care. She’ll be in the Wealthy Divorcee Cougar stage.
I know it’s kinda mean, but i dont care. I feel like both their noses have met their soul mate.
Yeah she’s a model, but her nose is like a caricature someone at a farmer’s market drew. His nose? Same. Their noses together? Match made in heaven.
Last time I checked, in order to have been dating for two years, you had to date for, wait for it!, two years.
The article quoted says: “The supermodel accepted the proposal from the 26-year-old tech superstar, who she has been dating for two years.”
All right. And then there’s this: “Miranda started dating Stanford University graduate Evan in June 2015 after meeting at a fashion industry dinner.”
When did the amount of months to make up two years get changed from 24 down to 13 months?
Signed: Cranky Pants
“Raw sexuality”? I hope that was sarcasm. She has a toddler head and he looks like he’s about 12.
Miranda gets my props. She doesn’t mess around. I would love to know what her pre-nup is.
Apparently it is pretty draconian, so she will have to drop babies in order to get the cash.
Pool on when she’s knocked up starts now.
I bet she’s pregnant within 6 months, tops.
#troowuv
I bet she is pregnant within 7 weeks ago.
Yeah…. I give her six months too!
It’s because he makes her laugh, right?