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The latest buzz about Kim Kardashian's massive engagement isn't its size or its weight, but whether fiancé Kris Humphries actually gave it to her.
Though some have wondered how Humphries, a New Jersey Nets player with a yearly salary of just $3.2 million, could afford a 20.5-carat ring worth a reported $2 million, other outlets are reporting that Kardashian actually bought the jewel for herself – years ago.
MediaTakeOut.com, for instance, dug up an old post of its own from 2008, featuring Kardashian wearing a giant diamond ring on her right hand.
At the time, the site wondered if it meant she and then-boyfriend Reggie Bush of the New Orlean Saints were engaged but keeping it quiet.
A side-by-side comparison of that ring and the one Kardashian recently sported in People magazine, which announced her engagement to Humphries, shows an uncanny resemblance between the two sparklers.
Both appear to feature an emerald-cut center stone with trapezoid-cut stones on each side, set in what appears to be a platinum band.
Last month, Life & Style reported that Kardashian had already been discussing her ideal engagement ring with jeweler Lorraine Schwartz. Sure enough, just a few weeks later, Humphries proposed with a Schwartz creation.
According to TMZ.com, the inside of the band was engraved with two biblical passages that hold special meanings for the couple. It's unknown whether the old ring has that feature as well.
Either way, Kardashian wouldn't be the first star to be accused of purchasing her own engagement ring.
Similar rumors surfaced last fall after Jessica Simpson received a Neil Lane ring with a central ruby and two diamonds flanking it from the unemployed Eric Johnson.
And Britney Spears was also speculated to have paid for her ring when she became engaged to the less-successful Kevin Federline in 2004.
Source: nydailynews.com
Though some have wondered how Humphries, a New Jersey Nets player with a yearly salary of just $3.2 million, could afford a 20.5-carat ring worth a reported $2 million, other outlets are reporting that Kardashian actually bought the jewel for herself – years ago.
MediaTakeOut.com, for instance, dug up an old post of its own from 2008, featuring Kardashian wearing a giant diamond ring on her right hand.
At the time, the site wondered if it meant she and then-boyfriend Reggie Bush of the New Orlean Saints were engaged but keeping it quiet.
A side-by-side comparison of that ring and the one Kardashian recently sported in People magazine, which announced her engagement to Humphries, shows an uncanny resemblance between the two sparklers.
Both appear to feature an emerald-cut center stone with trapezoid-cut stones on each side, set in what appears to be a platinum band.
Last month, Life & Style reported that Kardashian had already been discussing her ideal engagement ring with jeweler Lorraine Schwartz. Sure enough, just a few weeks later, Humphries proposed with a Schwartz creation.
According to TMZ.com, the inside of the band was engraved with two biblical passages that hold special meanings for the couple. It's unknown whether the old ring has that feature as well.
Either way, Kardashian wouldn't be the first star to be accused of purchasing her own engagement ring.
Similar rumors surfaced last fall after Jessica Simpson received a Neil Lane ring with a central ruby and two diamonds flanking it from the unemployed Eric Johnson.
And Britney Spears was also speculated to have paid for her ring when she became engaged to the less-successful Kevin Federline in 2004.
Source: nydailynews.com