Cristiano Ronaldo's young son Cristiano Jnr, dubbed Cristianinho, has no idea who his mother is, family members have admitted.
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The Real Madrid and Portugal star’s sister Elma has revealed to The Mirror that the four-year-old boy has now stopped asking about the woman, believed to be a surrogate mother.
And she added that the family had even once told the youngster that his mother was dead.
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She said: “Once we told him she was in Heaven, but my brother and mum asked us not to repeat it.
"We say now his mum went travelling . He doesn’t ask anymore.”
Questions about the identity of Cristiano Jnr's mother surfaced last week, when the pro footballer's mum Dolores Aveiro released an official biography.
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In the book, she revealed that she went to the US to pick up Cristianinho after his 2010 birth.
She said Ronaldo, 29, told her: “The mum will never be known.”