What is the real meaning behind Emma Watson’s diamond ring amid engagement rumors?

Rumors about Emma Watson's alleged engagement continue to spread, despite the actress having cleared the air weeks ago.

The Harry Potter alum was spotted at Paris Fashion Week on October 6 in a tan suede jacket and a light pink metallic mini dress. However, it was her blingy diamond ring that had heads turning.

Netizens have been inundating X with speculations that she could be engaged to her fellow Oxford classmate Kieran Brown, as the two have been linked since July last year, according to E! News. She recently explained that the accessory was a gift from her friends.

“Having gone through this odyssey, which has been the last seven years,” Emma Watson, 35, told Jay Shetty during the September 24 episode of his On Purpose podcast. “I was like, OK, I feel like I’ve got to a place—and this will continue forever—where I want to celebrate where I ended up after I kind of left land.”

Emma Watson opens up about dating, friendships, and societal pressures:

According to Page Six, Emma Watson, who sat front row at the Miu Miu show, sported the diamond ring in question on her ring finger. It features a center round-cut diamond with 22 baguette cuts encircling it, nestled over a clean yellow gold band. As of this writing, the designer behind the same remains unclear.

In her interview with Jay Shetty, Emma Watson said the ring came from “a day of celebrating with my friends and chosen family.” The ring came from 22 of her close friends, with each buying one baguette. She told Jay she couldn't have made it as a child actress without her friends.

“I’ve never owned anything so valuable in my life because to me, it represents the life that I’ve built,” she shared, “which was the one that I really wanted, which was one that was made up of community and my roots and faith and trust. And in some funny way, it signals to me that even though I have no outward signs of my success,” she continued, “save for this crazy one-woman play I’ve written—I don’t even have my degree yet—it signals to me that for me, I achieved what I wanted to achieve for myself.”

She said of the importance the ring holds to her:

“I love that every time I look down at my finger. I can see all of the faces of the people who bought it for me.”

As reported by People magazine, elsewhere in the segment, Emma Watson also addressed the prospect of marriage. She explained that she hopes to tie the knot one day, but doesn't "feel entitled to it."

"I hope it happens to me. But I don’t feel entitled to it. It will either be part of my purpose here and my destiny, or it won’t," she said.

The Beauty and the Beast actress was first seen wearing the ring at the Venice Film Festival, Elle has reported. While speaking with Jay, she slammed the pressure young people face nowadays to get married:

“To make them feel like they have no worth, or like they haven’t succeeded yet in life, because they haven’t forced to its culmination something that I just don’t think can or should ever be forced," she remarked. “It’s something that, honestly, I feel like I’ve had to earn, I’ve had to work for: to be in a place where I feel like I can look someone in the eye and be able to tell them who I am, and to have some idea—and it will change and grow—of what I want and what I’m here to do.”

Emma Watson also looked back on her own experiences with dating, noting,

“I think what’s nice is, at the very least, dating for everyone is basically a complete disaster and free-for-all. So like I feel like I’m in good company in that sense.”

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