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Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny and girlfriend, Gabriela Berlingeri, have gone from mystery to #relationshipgoals within the span of just a few months.
After the two were spotted together at a basketball game in Los Angeles on Feb. 28, Bad Bunny revealed more of their relationship in the spring while promoting his recent albums on Instagram—YHLQMDLG and Las Que No Iban a Salir—and on the May 2020 cover of Rolling Stone, where all of the photos, including some intimate moments between the couple, were shot by Berlingeri.
“I wanted to highlight all my favorite things about him,” Berlingeri said. “I want people to notice his lips. His skin. His eyes. I find him so beautiful.”
This wasn’t Berlingeri’s first time behind the camera. Bad Bunny’s manager, Noah Assad, told Rolling Stone that many of the singer’s Instagram photos have been taken by her.
“I am happy with her,” Bad Bunny said of his decision to make his relationship public. “[People] don’t know she has helped me a lot in emotional aspects when I needed it the most.”
Since then, engagement and even marriage rumors have swirled around the couple. Neither have been confirmed, but one thing we do know is that the couple is very much in love.
Here’s what else to know about Berlingeri and the couple’s relationship.
Gabriela Berlingeri is a jewelry designer from San Juan.
Like Bad Bunny, Berlingeri is 26 and from Puerto Rico. She works as a jewelry designer, with her shop DICIEMBRE|VEINTINUEVE set to launch November 2020.
Berlingeri has always worked as a model for various boutiques, according to TV Azteca, and she has worked with Bad Bunny on his music. On his surprise album, Las Que No Iban a Salir, she is credited as a vocalist the song, "En Casita" or "In a Small House.” The two sing about how hard it is to stay at home, with Bad Bunny admitting to waking up late to play video games, running out of milk for Corn Flakes, and just wishing the virus would go away like former Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló. Bad Bunny and Gabriela alternate between singing the chorus: "Yo que te quería ver, pero no se va a poder," which means, "I wanted to see you, but it's not going to be possible."
Bad Bunny told Rolling Stone that his girlfriend recorded references for his song "Te Gusté" with Jennifer Lopez.
Berlingeri and Bad Bunny first started dating in 2017.
In his Rolling Stone interview, Bad Bunny says he met Berlingeri while eating at a restaurant with his family after singing at a concert for reggaeton duo Zion and Lennox in April 2017. (That same month, Bad Bunny split with his long-time girlfriend of five years, Carliz de la Cruz.)
This confirms the sleuthing Bad Bunny fans have done prior to the couple taking their relationship public. They found photos of Berlingeri at the concert, as well as subsequent videos of him singing with a woman playing his song “Soy Peor” on a ukulele in San Juan. Fans believed the woman in the red shirt to be Gabriela.
Prior to her relationship with Bad Bunny, Berlingeri would post about how much she liked his music on Twitter. On March 9, she liked a tweet from a fan that said, “bad bunny’s girls bio is ‘me gusta ver The Office y escuchar reggaeton.’ can’t do anything but stan a bad b***h.”
Astrologically, Bad Bunny is a Pisces and Gabriela a Capricorn, even hinting that the two zodiac signs don’t mix on his song “Bye Me Fui.” But when speaking with Rolling Stone, the singer admitted he doesn't really believe that.
“I just [wrote it] in a sad moment,” he said. “She and I really have great chemistry, for real.”
The couple made their relationship Instagram official while quarantining together in Puerto Rico.
After months of speculation, Bad Bunny made his relationship with Berlingeri public in March 2020 during the early days of the novel coronavirus pandemic, when the couple was quarantined together in an Airbnb in Puerto Rico.
The two frequently shared videos on Instagram of how they were passing the the time, including a video set to “Canción del Coronavirus” by Los Tres Tristes Tigres, where the couple is dancing, arm wrestling, and playing jenga. The entertainer even posted an, ahem, cheeky video of him and his girlfriend sunbathing. And during his Instagram lives, Gabriela is often seen dancing or joking on camera with the star.
“Do people really think I’m spending quarantine alone?” Bad Bunny told Rolling Stone. “No! I am with someone, she is very special in my life. This quarantine has made me understand that she is the best companion I could have.”
Berlingeri has received some hate for her relationship with Bad Bunny.
Some Twitter users have suggested that Berlingeri isn’t “pretty enough” for the singer. One viral tweet in particular that included a photo of Berlingeri read, “this is bad bunny’s gf, and honestly my ugly ass could’ve had a chance.” This is both wrong (Hola Gabriela, drop the skin care routine!!!) but also fuels unrealistic beauty standards, as if how she looks has to do with anything at all.
“They're just an adorable couple, where one of the two happens to be a celebrity, but they still want to do the regular things they'd be doing regardless of fame,” Editor Maria G. Valdez wrote for POPSUGAR Latina. “So, to bring her physical appearance into it as a way to belittle her just shows how far we still have to go as a society.”
Bad Bunny may have also been alluding to this in a recent tweet about “not playing ‘the artist’ with your false opinions and cute little kitty faces.”
But for as many haters as Berlingeri may have, there are even more showing their support and happiness for the adorable couple.
YHLQMDLG may be a loose timeline of the couple’s relationship.
The first few songs on Bad Bunny’s sophomore album—now the highest charting all-Spanish-language album ever—are more somber and reflective, like when you’re getting over a failed relationship. But then as the album progresses, the mood starts to brighten, and before long Bad Bunny goes full “perreo”—the reggaeton version of twerking.
The singer seemed to confirm this progression in his interview with ET (and also a possible collaboration with Spanish singer Rosalía, but that’s another story), after the interviewer suggests that the album goes from talking about an ex to finally moving on. Bad Bunny laughs and says, “Yes, now I’m perreando.”
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