Spanish soccer star’s girlfriend reveals her herpes flare up like it’s no big deal – the Internet explodes

Ines Garcia, the 21-year-old girlfriend of Spanish footballer Lamine Yamal, posted on Instagram that she was experiencing a herpes outbreak and showed a cream applied around her nose. The post drew attention online, with some users criticising her for sharing personal information they said could expose Yamal to ridicule.

Garcia told her five million Instagram followers that she had woken with the outbreak the previous day and had previously experienced them as often as monthly. The article says Yamal earns an estimated $25 million to $33 million a year in salary, before endorsements; it speculates about Garcia’s motives but provides no evidence for those claims.