Ronaldo’s a father? That’s news to me, says his 'heartbroken' girlfriend

Daddy: Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo's girlfriend is said to be "devastated" after apparently being left in the dark about the birth of his son.

Russian underwear model Irina Shayk is believed not to have known that an unidentified American woman was carrying the former Manchester United star's child.

According to newspaper Correio da Manhã, she wrote on her Facebook page: "You have broken my heart. Thanks for making me cry. Why have you done this?"

On another entry she is said to have written: "He was about to become a father and he didn't tell me anything."

Ms Shayk's comments come as the guessing game continued over the identity of the baby's mother.
The child is said to have been born on June 17 while Ronaldo was on World Cup duty in South Africa.

The Portugal and Real Madrid player has previously been linked with a number of women in the US, including Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.

The child is being looked after by Ronaldo's family on the Algarve.

His sister Katia Aveiro said her brother was "very happy" about becoming a father. Local media said the baby was born as a result of a fling with an American woman.

There were also unconfirmed reports that Ronaldo paid a surrogate mother to have the child at the end of last summer in San Diego, where he was on holiday.

Speaking at one of the family's homes in Vilamoura, on the Algarve, Katia told Diário de Notícias: "He has brown eyes and brown hair like Cristiano.

"He's very happy, of course! Who isn't happy having children? The baby looks like him, although he's still too small to see what his features will be like."

Ronaldo wrote on his website, Twitter and Facebook: "It is with great joy and emotion that I inform I have recently become a father to a baby boy. As agreed with the baby's mother... my son will be under my exclusive guardianship."

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