Emma Watson has shared the meaning behind her new ring after sparking engagement rumours during a recent appearance at Paris Fashion Week.
The actress, who has described the pressure to marry as a ‘violence and cruelty’ against women, wore an impressive, vintage-style ring on her engagement finger while attending a Miu Miu catwalk show in the French capital.
Watson, 35, has revealed the symbolic meaning behind the flower shaped accessory, initially thought to be an indication that her student boyfriend Kieran Brown had proposed.
Appearing on the latest instalment of The Jay Shetty Podcast, the Harry Potter star – who gave up acting in 2019 and has since enrolled at Oxford University – revealed each glittering petal represented a different aspect of her life away from show business.
She said: ‘I guess having gone through this odyssey, which has been the last seven years, I It was like, okay, 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 left land, it felt like.
‘I did a ritual with, I guess just a day of celebrating with my friends and chosen family. They each bought me this ring, which has 22 petals on it, and each of them bought one.’
Emma Watson has shared the meaning behind her new ring after sparking engagement rumours during a recent appearance at Paris Fashion Week
The actress wore an impressive, vintage-style ring on her engagement finger while attending a Miu Miu catwalk show in the French capital on October 6 (pictured)
She added: ‘I’ve just never owned anything so valuable in my life because to me, it represents the life that I’ve built, which was the one that I really wanted, which was one that was made up of community and my roots and faith and trust.
‘In some funny way, it signals to me that even though I have no How would signs of my success, 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.’
Watson is currently in a relationship with PhD student Kieran Brown, whom she met while studying for her part-time master’s degree in creative writing at Oxford University.
But the actress, who lives in the city’s affluent Jericho district, insists she will marry in her own time, and won’t be pressured into exchanging vows because it’s viewed as the conventional thing to do.
She said: ‘I’m just so happy not to be divorced yet. That sounds like a really negative answer, but I think that we’re being pressured and forced into this thing that I believe is a miracle.
‘I might never be worthy of 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.
‘I think the way we treat it as though, Well, why haven’t you? This is something that has to happen in this certain time span and at this certain age in this way. It’s the least romantic thing I can possibly think of.’
‘Truly, if I had tried to get married any point, basically before about a year ago, it would have been carnage. I just didn’t know myself well enough yet. I didn’t have a clear enough idea of what my purpose, my vision, how I was going to be of service.
Appearing on the latest instalment of The Jay Shetty Podcast , the Harry Potter star revealed each glittering petal represented a different aspect of her life away from showbusiness
Her boyfriend is Kieran Brown (pictured with the actress), whom she met while studying for her part-time master’s degree in creative writing at Oxford University, where he is pursuing a PHD
‘I didn’t know where I really felt like I needed to be. I think I have some of those answers now. So when I meet someone, I can say, Hi, I’m Emma. This is what I care about.’
She added: ‘I think it’s such a violence and it’s such a cruelty on people, and especially young people, I think, and especially women, 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 can or should ever be forced.
‘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.’
During the same interview, the actress said her public support for trans rights did not mean she had turned against Harry Potter JK Rowling.
She said: ‘I really don’t believe that by having had that experience and holding the love and support and views that I have, mean that I can’t and don’t treasure Jo and the person that I, that I had personal experiences with.’
‘I did a ritual with, I guess just a day of celebrating with my friends and chosen family. They each bought me this ring, which has 20 two petals on it, and each of them bought one’
