As all eyes are on him and the France national team, many soccer fans are wondering: Who is Kylian Mbappe dating?
Mbappe became the most sought-after soccer player in the world beside this world cup 2022. At only 19 years old, Mbappe became the second youngest player to score a goal (after Pele) at the prized tournament and helped his team win the 2018 World Cup. For his feats and unbelievable skills, he won FIFA World Cup Best Young Player and French Player of the Year. As a player on Paris St. Germain, Mbappe won four Ligue 1 titles and three Coupes de France, and is the club's second-highest all-time top goalscorer. After France beat Morrocco during the semi-final rounds, all eyes are on the team and how they will face Argentina and Mbappe's Paris St. Germain teammate Lionel Messi, who announced that it will be his last World Cup.
In 2022, Forbes listed him as number 35 in the World's Highest Paid athletes, and also listed him as number one on the World's Most Paid Soccer Players list. He beat out both top soccer players Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo who have previously dominated the list in the past couple of years since 2014. If France wins the World Cup against Argentina, Mbappe's home country team would earn about $40 million, while the second-place team would earn $30 million. When he won the 2018 World Cup, he donated his entire $500K World Cup bonus to the charity Premiers de Cordee, which provides free sports instruction for children with disabilities. With multiple endorsements from Dior, Hublot and Nike, the soccer player is definitely dominating the sports world. So if Mbappe wins this World Cup, many fans will be asking: is he single? Maybe…but maybe not.
So who Kylian Mbappe is dating?
Kylian Mbappe has been recently rumored to be linked to Belgian model Rose Bertram. According to The Sun, it is thought to have met Mbappe after his foray into the fashion industry, living in Paris.
Bertram was signed to a modeling agency when she was 13 and signed to Dominque agency when she was 16. In an interview with Vogue, she said "I remember when I started people always told me that it would never work out. They told me that I'd never get to do big jobs because I wasn't tall enough, didn't have a very skinny high-fashion body type. Right now we're in 2016, and it’s so important to give chances to girls who aren’t tall, who have curves, and are different. That way you can tell that fashion is changing, now it's all about who you are." On what her big break was, she told G-Star, "Definitely when I worked with Juergen Teller. The famous photographer, you know? I was around 18 or 19 and did a campaign with him and it came out on billboards in New York. Afterwards I got a call from Sports Illustrated. Which resulted in 3 years of work. Good for building my image. And yeah, my following."
Bertram was the girlfriend of fellow football player Gregory van der Wiel. The two were together since she was 17 and have one child together who was born in Toronto. van der Wiel played for the same team as Mbappe but their paths did not cross since the former left the team in 2016, a year before the 23-year-old signed with Paris St. Germain.
Though Bertram and Mbappe haven't been publicly seen together, the two are speculated to be together. The two follow each other on Instagram, feeding into the fan theories.
