Woman are wearing FAKE engagement rings over fears of losing their real ones - and to REPEL unwanted advances from men

More women than ever have admitted to wearing 'dupe' engagement rings to avoid losing the real things amid wild and often boozy pre-wedding trips.

For others, making the switch allowed them to relax a bit and reduced paranoid about losing the ring in day to day life, while still signaling their engagement to others. 

In one TikTok, Miami resident Emz Frisch Leger displayed the fake engagement ring, which she got off Amazon, that she planned to wear to her bachelorette party.

'Because I cannot be responsible for losing this ring! Yo, if you know, you know, I already had bought a dupe, but I lost it. So it says a lot about the type of human being I am!' she said.

Women have have taken to wearing fake engagement rings in public. Pictured is Emz Frisch Leger, who didn't want to worry about losing her real ring during her bachelorette party

'I lose s**t too easily. I could throw my hands up in the air and that s**t could fly and I don't care,' she pointed out of the significantly lower stakes there were over losing track of the dupe.

'Rob me! Rob me, sir! Yes, here you go!' she play-acted, implying she wouldn't be unbothered were a thief to get hold of the fake ring.

A TikToker named Toni also got a fake engagement ring specifically to wear to her bachelorette party in Puerto Rico.

'I bought it because I was scared to lose my real ring. We were going on a boat, we were going to be doing all kinds of different things and I just didn't want to risk it,' said Toni.

'I wouldn't have minded if I'd lost it in the middle of the ocean somewhere,' she added.

Other women just felt 'safer' not wearing their real, and really expensive, engagement rings out amid daily activities. 

Newly-engaged TikToker Miki Rai showed off an imitation engagement ring her fiancé had bought for her, as a near-exact lookalike of the real one. 

'I'm unfortunately somebody who loses my things all the time, so this is perfect. I feel like it's safer just to leave the real thing at home,' she explained.

TikToker Toni (left) wore a fake engagement ring on her bachelorette vacation to Puerto Rico. Miki Rai (right) admitted that she's 'somebody who loses my things all the time'

NYC nurse Madison Skretch never wore her real ring out out of fear that something would happen to it - so now proudly sports a fake version

She added that both the real thing and the dupe had 'rose gold bands with round styles' as well as a 'hidden halo.' 

Elsewhere, an NYC nurse named Madison Skretch said she got a fake ring for $20 on Amazon, 'and I'm so happy that I did,' she emphasized.

'Because I felt like I was never wearing my ring,' she said. 'I don't wear it to work, I don't wear it to workout. I literally get to wear it two days a week.

'I was just so paranoid that it was going to fly off when I took a glove off or something. Or that it would just get dirty and I didn't want to deal with that,' she continued.

She added that she'd just worn it on vacation to Mexico, and didn't have to worry about losing it in the 'ocean or the pool.'

Others, like TikToker Meghan Currie (pictured), have been wearing fake engagement rings to discourage men from hitting on them

Flight attendant Eva revealed her fake engagement ring, which she planned to wear on the job to deter unwanted attention from passengers

Still other women offered an entirely different rationale for sporting fake engagement rings - one more motivated by making men believe they are 'taken' when they don't want to be chatted up by strangers. 

TikToker Meghan Currie admitted she occasionally wears one to stop men from hitting on her. 

'Being "taken" is the only way you'll be left alone because men respect other men more than they would ever respect me,' she captioned a six-second clip of her showing off the faux-bling.

Taking a similar approach was a flight attendant named Eva, who disclosed she'd gotten a fake ring to discourage unwanted male attention. 

As she declared in a TikTok: 'POV you buy yourself an engagement ring so passengers stop flirting with you.' 

She added in the caption: 'I'll let you know if it works.'