Karlie Kloss couldn’t even wait a day before she had to show off her engagement ring on social media. At first, she just flashed her ring on Instagram Stories, then she posted the above photo on social media – that’s a better-quality photo where you can really see the details of the ring. Take away everything you’ve already seen, and just think for a minute: what kind of ring says “Karlie Kloss” to you? I would have said “princess cut, plain platinum band and setting, no more than four carats, from Tiffany’s.” But that’s not what Karlie got. She got a very large cushion-cut diamond with a pave-diamond band. And Joshua Kushner spent a pretty penny on it too:
Joshua Kushner did well. His new fiancée, supermodel Karlie Kloss, took to social media on Tuesday to debut her stunning engagement ring.
Estimated to be between 7 and 8 carats, the cushion-cut diamond appears to be set on a delicate diamond-adorned band, according to Brilliant Earth‘s VP of strategy and merchandising, Kathryn Money, who did not design the ring. She estimated the ring could have cost Kushner north of $200,000, possibly as high as $500,000.
My guess is that it’s probably closer to 8 carats and probably closer to $500K. Just because I think the cut and clarity are probably outstanding, and Joshua Kushner would know that he needed to pick out the best diamond possible.
Some of you were asking about whether Karlie has converted or would convert for Joshua, People Magazine buried that information in their engagement story. Sources say that Karlie converted to Judaism in “early June” and that Karlie “has never been one to make decisions lightly. She spends a lot of time reflecting and learning.” I would hope so – conversions to Judaism take a lot longer than a week or two, from what I’ve heard. It’s a multi-month process, isn’t it? And like Charlotte York before her, Karlie converted because she knew the proposal was in the works. Joshua = Harry! Ivanka Trump had to convert for Jared as well. Sigh… we live in a world where Karlie Kloss and Ivanka Trump will be sisters-in-law.
Photos courtesy of Karlie’s Twitter, Backgrid, WENN.
Yeah whatever, who cares how big the ring is. She’s still stuck with Ivanka as a sister in law. No amount of bling can compensate for having to invite that grifting sack of veneers to your wedding.
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Does this make karlie also #complicit?
And getting stuck with Jared, Boy Wonder, as a brother-in-law and a criminal father-in-law.
ewwww i didn’t think about the in-law angle why’d you have to go remind me?
If she just converted to Judaism I would say she was the one controlling the timeline, and not him as some have said. She controlled when she was ready.
Am I the only one who thinks its really selfish to tell a person that my religion is better and they have to convert to be good enough for me??
I feel like thats a lot to ask of someone.
Not only selfish its 99% ( I know a muslim woman who wanted her atheist bf to convert for example) of the time the woman who is expected to do it.
I could never marry a man who expected that. That in itself would be a warning sign.
No, you’re not the only one. My bf is religious, but I have no beliefs and it would be a warning sign that he was a bad choice if he started forcing his religion on me.
I don’t think it is selfish. And, it isn’t saying “my religion is better.” If someone is deeply religious, they probably want to share the same traditions, celebrations, and religious services with their significant other and pass those same traditions on to their kids. This is more important for some religions than others. I bet Karlie knew pretty early on in the relationship that this was important. and she made a choice to continue the relationship.
I agree with this, and Judaism is interesting in that it lost so many millions of people during the Holocaust…there are very strong feelings surrounding trying to rebuild the Jewish community.
If that was important to me then I would seek out and date someone who was like minded.
I don’t know. It really depends on the context . I’m an atheist but I grew up as a ‘Muslim’ because unfortunately I lived in a country where civil unions don’t exist and you are forced to have a ‘religion’ (atheist doesn’t exist there, they will put whatever religion you grew up in). My German agnostic boyfriend ‘converted’ to islam on paper – I never pressured him, I just explained the fact our children would not be recognized in my home countries and along with the ostracization (as a note- I would have married him anyway, even with the ostracization!) It’s not like anything changed for us tho. I even forget that he converted at times!
And no, it’s not women who have to convert. In Islam, a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man. Muslim men can marry Non-Muslim women. In Judaism it is reverse.
I’m sure whatever decision these two came towards was done mutually. It could be she converted for the family, etc. Who knows. She’s also free to make that decision.
Oh hellow my fellow countrywoman
But is the conversion, in this case, just a performative kind of thing? A box that needs to be checked?
In this day and age, I mostly take her conversion as an indicator that they plan on having children. In terms of Judaism, if the mother isn’t Jewish then the kids are not technically Jewish, even if the father is. So kids, and also maybe Joshua has had his heart set on a synagogue wedding.
So…I have mixed feelings about it, but I think with certain religions, especially one like Judaism that has been actively oppressed for centuries, it’s pretty much necessary if children are going to be involved and raised in the religion. Being able to conserve, maintain, and pass on that heritage is integral to keeping the community alive. Moreover, Jewish heritage is matrilineal, so conversion would be necessary for their children to inherit that designation. When you look up studies that estimate just how much of the contemporary Jewish population has been diminished by the Holocaust and other historical atrocities against them, you can understand why sustainability is a major concern.
I like the ring very much. It doesn’t look OTT because she’s tall and has long fingers.
Choosing Judaism (conversion is like a dirty word for the process of changing religions to Judaism) takes a year or more. They go through classes and all holidays throughout the year with the purpose of truly studying the religion and understanding all the symbology and ritual. At the end there is a big ceremony with a ritual bath in a special building that collects rain water. It’s really quite lovely and if you’re a girl you get away with not having a ritual circumcision 😉
As for the pics…I can see what makes her model but DAMN that purple dress looks TERRIBLE on her!
I’m amusing myself by reading the meltdowns by Kaylors on Tumblr!
They are still trying to convince themselves Karlie and Taylor are a couple.
Don‘t like those rings at all, big stone and extremely thin band. They all look fake and tacky to me.
I agree. Jumbo stones like that looks like cheap costume jewelry from Claire’s
A quick Jewish conversion takes about a year… I have friends who were in it for three or four years. Judaism takes conversion very, very seriously. It’s not something someone does lightly or on a lark. That being said, conversion is a whole lot easier if you convert Reform instead of Orthodox. Ivanka (may she go straight to Hell) got an Orthodox conversion… curious what Karlie actually went for.
Lol. You make it sound like buying a car. Hmm do I go with the deluxe model with heated leather seats and rear view GPS or do I go with the standard model . . . that’s cheaper and actually has a better sound system? Hmm. 😀
Karlie is insane for converting for him.
What is it with the Kushner brothers? Why not marry a girl who was born Jewish instead of asking someone to convert in order to please your family?
They do like their wives tall, as a tall woman I give them props for that. And that’s all I give them props for. Joshua doesn’t seem to mind that his wife looks taller.
The women in my mom’s social circle all rock diamonds in the 4-10 range and there is no way this one is over 5. She probably has long thin fingers and unless it is a crappy deep cut it would be nearly the width of her finger at even 4 carats.
An 8 carat stone is enormous, like Wilma Flintstone big…
agree!
Agreed—that is a lovely stone, but not ice cube big.
Yep, that is what I was thinking as well. I actually really like the ring.
I would also peg it about 5, no more than 6 tops. It’s a pretty stone.
I thought the same thing!! My guess was 5-6 and, oh hello, it’s stunning! Granted, I’m a very short person with scrawny fingers, but I have a 4 ct round that reaches almost to the edge, so I can’t even fathom what kind of boulder situation 8 would be 😂😂.
I’m 5’10 and a half so I can say this, they look like the number 11 together!
There is no way in the world that stone is 7 or 8 carats. My girlfriends mother’s ring is 8 carats and she cant even wear her wedding band on the same finger. I am sure the quality is great but I am putting it at 4 carats and maybe the band will push it close to 5.
Yeah, I was going to say this. That is the smallest 8 carat ring I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen many as my cousin is a diamond buyer. That looks like 4, it honestly doesn’t look much larger than my friend’s 2+ ct cushion ring, but accounting for her longer fingers I think 4 seems right. The price is in the quality of the diamond, no way you get a perfect 8ct diamond for half a million.
Not a fan of that ring setting. It’s difficult to really tell, but the prongs holding the stone look enormous and I hate that. Also, for a larger stone like this, a much wider band would have looked better.
That purple dress looks terrible on Karlie. Did she forget to look in the mirror and see what was happening in the bust area?
Kaiser have you seen Ivanka’s comment to her? Last I checked it hadn’t been responded to. Yikes.
I need to research Joshua. On this site, I’ve gotten the impression he’s politically a polar opposite of Jared. He’s also better looking. I wonder how deep in he is with the family felonies, I mean, businesses.
Double post, my apologies!
Aside from wanting to take tweezers to her eyebrows in the ring shot above, the ring itself is nice, sedate, looks good on her hand.
Is it wrong that I literally have no idea who these people are????
She’s a model who was also (I guess) good friends with Taylor Swift.
Joshua Kushner is Jared Kushner’s brother, and Jared is married to Ivanka Trump.
I also didn’t know who either one of them were, I only recognized his last name
Karlie’s actually a fairly big model. She used to be a big haute couture runway presence but has moved more commercial recently. She’s currently the face of Swarovski crystal and did Express and Victoria Secret previous to that.
The ring looks just like mine (cushion with no halo) — hers is just 4 times the size 🙂
I just find the big stones so tacky, honestly. Not just in terms of appearance but in price tag (and subsequently, what it’s intended to reflect about your wealth status), especially in consideration that nearly all of them are suspected of being part of the blood trade now. Bring on the synthetic diamonds, already, and I might embrace those bigger stones.
The “7 to 8 carats” could also refer to the TOTAL carat weight. Not just the center stone.
She really seems like a pretentious status driven snob. She supports the trumps. That’s enough for me.
She and her boyfriend are democrats and she supported Hillary.
Just a quick question, since I have never worn one of those type rings: When you have a very small band around the finger, with one single huge rock on top, does it ever stay upright? Or do you constantly have to fiddle with it, so the stone keeps in position? It would drive me BONKERS to have a ring twisting and sliding like that.
Converting to Judaism is no small task. First, the person interested in converting will be denied three times, to test their seriousness. Conversation is not encouraged, so only someone fully committed to the religion will be allowed to covert by the overseeing rabbi.
Second, the conversation must be because the person chooses the faith and would do so without the marriage being in consideration. That means she had to do a lot of soul searching and conclude that she really found this to be her faith.
Unlike other religions, Judaism does not want converts (hence the rejection 3 times).
Third, the conversation must be “kosher”, which means that it likely took more than a year of studying and that she had to become an Orthodox Jew first (only then, could she choose to be a liberal Jew or a non-practicing Jew).
The reason it is far more important that women convert is that in Judaism, the ethnic identity comes from the mother. If the mother is Jewish by blood or conversion, then the children are Jewish. It does not matter if the father is Jewish.
So if you wanted to have children and you wanted them to be Jews, they would either have to be born to a Jewish mother or they would have to convert as adults.
I know some of you are saying why did he not just pick a Jewish girl to begin with? Because the heart falls in love with whomever the heart chooses. But it is VERY LIKELY that he told her straight out that he could not be bound to her because of the religious issue. She had a choice and it had to be a real choice (not dependent on her engagement). She started this process well over a year ago. There is no question
Again, both Kushner sons chose to marry girls who are tall, blonde and not born Jewish. Seems like a pattern.
Karlie looks kind of scary in that header pic