Christina Haack Clarifies Cartier Love Ring, Says She Is Not Engaged

Christina Haack’s ring was never an engagement clue so much as a reminder that not every meaningful piece on a left hand is headed for a proposal. The jewelry in question was a Cartier Love ring, the engraved everyday band Haack said she has worn for almost 10 years, not a new diamond engagement ring waiting for a wedding date.

Haack addressed the speculation in an Instagram Story after being photographed with Christopher Larocca at HGTV’s Bachelor Mansion Takeover event on March 12, 2026. Her response was blunt: “Bad reporting,” she wrote, then clarified, “That ring (that I’ve worn for almost 10 years) is a Cartier love ring (a gift to myself) with my kids initials.” The detail that makes the piece personal is also the detail that explains the confusion. A Love ring reads as a committed, sentimental band, while an engagement ring is usually built around a center stone, often an oval, emerald cut, or round diamond, lifted in prongs or set in a bezel. One announces a relationship status; the other can simply signal attachment.

That distinction matters because Haack has been wearing the ring through several chapters of her public life. She and Larocca went public in January 2025, after first being linked in late 2024, and the relationship has unfolded under an unusual amount of scrutiny. Haack has been married three times, to Tarek El Moussa, Ant Anstead and Joshua Hall, and her divorce from Hall was settled in May 2025 after the couple separated in July 2024. Even now, she continues to move in a blended-family orbit with the people from those previous chapters, including Tarek El Moussa, Heather Rae El Moussa and the children she shares with her former husbands.

The romance with Larocca has stayed visible. He appeared in the background of The Flip Off season finale that aired March 5, 2026, and he joined Haack at the Bachelor Mansion event a week later. Still, Haack has been consistent about the pace of the relationship. She said they were “not in any rush” and told Us Weekly in March that marriage is “just not on my radar right now,” even as she has said she would probably marry again someday and would want a long engagement before doing so.

For readers used to decoding celebrity hands as if they were clues, Haack’s ring is a useful correction. Not every band is a promise, and not every polished circle of metal is an engagement story. In her case, the signature piece is older, more intimate and far more personal than a proposal rumor.