Battle of the Bling

When the reality show “Jersey Shore” first premiered just two years ago, did you ever imagine the drunken gal who called herself a meatball would be on the covers of magazines thanks to the fact she’s about to become a mom and wearing a $55,000 engagement ring? We didn’t either. But back to the ring: Snooki likes her diamonds like she likes her hair: Big. The piece – bestowed upon her by fiancé and baby-daddy Jionni LaValle – totals five carats, ... more 

When the reality show “Jersey Shore” first premiered just two years ago, did you ever imagine the drunken gal who called herself a meatball would be on the covers of magazines thanks to the fact she’s about to become a mom and wearing a $55,000 engagement ring? We didn’t either. But back to the ring: Snooki likes her diamonds like she likes her hair: Big. The piece – bestowed upon her by fiancé and baby-daddy Jionni LaValle – totals five carats, including a three-carat princess-cut stone and a custom-created band with 2 carats worth of diamonds. But Jionni got a little guidance from his wife when the couple went window shoping last year. “She was giving him some hints like certain types of stuff that she would like,” Ben Bekdas, the owner of B&B Jewelers in Wayne, New Jersey, recently told MTV News. “So, Jionni came in about a couple months ago; he came in looking at engagement rings. He basically came up with certain design that she liked in some of the rings." less