'Tacky' woman slammed for 'upstaging' her best friend's engagement news by showing off her larger ring

A 'tacky' woman has been slammed online after being accused of upstaging her best friend's engagement by flaunting her bigger ring to followers. 

Earlier this month, social media star Joanna Zanella Schaub, 35, who lives in LA, posted an Instagram Story celebrating her friend's engagement.

In the photo, the mother-of-three - who is engaged to former MMA fighter and podcaster Brendan Schaub - held her hand out next to her friend's so her 70,0000 followers could see their engagement rings.

While Joanna opted for a square, cushion-cut diamond ring framed by additional diamonds, her friend Natalie has a smaller Princess cut diamond set on a pave band. 

Joanna captioned the photo: 'Welcome to the club BFF.'

Joanna Zanella Schaub (left) pictured with her best friend of 17 years Natalie (right). The social media star shared this photo to celebrate Natalie's birthday last year

In the photo, the mother-of-three held her hand out next to her friend's so her 70,0000 followers could see their engagement rings

Joanna's post was later posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, where users accused her of 'upstaging' her friend. 

X user Rosey told her 23,000 followers: 'When your friend gets engaged, it’s important to make sure everyone knows you have a bigger ring.' 

The post has amassed over 54,000 'likes' and has been seen by over 7.4m X users since it was shared last week.

Jumping to the bride-to-be's defence, one outraged user wrote: 'The bigger ring appears to have pave-set diamonds which is the diamond equivalent of a push-up bra. Versus her friend’s classic 3 carat solitaire.' 

Agreeing with this comment, Rosey replied: 'Indeed. Tacky move, tacky ring.' 

'This would destroy some of the friend groups that I'm in,' another added. 

'Subtle flexing is so wrong,' a third agreed. 'True friends celebrate love, not the size of the ring,' a fourth wrote.

A fifth added: 'I feel like I’m general when people say “welcome to the club” in regards to parenthood, marriage etc, they don’t want them to have their own moment.' 

Joanna's post was later posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, where users accused her of 'upstaging' her friend

However, not everyone agreed that Joanna's was trying to 'upstage' her friend and argued the post was perfectly innocent. 

One supporter wrote: 'Is it just me or the pic seems like a harmless BFF post?' 

Another asked: 'Is that what she's doing or is that what you're seeing?' 

Meanwhile, a third added: 'I didn't get that from this at all? It just looks like two friends celebrating both being engaged. That's a beautiful thing.' 

'This is just a case of differing taste,' a fourth said. 'The more elegant vs the more luxurious, but both are excited to be engaged.'

In a previous post on her Instagram, Joanna paid tribute to her friend Natalie - who she has known for 17 years - on her birthday.

She gushed: 'The adventures we’ve had, the memories, the milestones, and life itself has been the best with you by my side. May today be as special as you and I hope you know I love you with all my heart.'

Last month, Joanna's fiance Brendan Schaub posted a video he accidentally took of  himself flipping his off-roading truck.

Schaub was recording an episode for his 'Tune Town' show on YouTube when he flipped his Dodge Ram TRX in the California desert.

After spending the afternoon shooting footage of him ripping through sand and climbing boulders, he tried doing some donuts.

But he ended up losing control of the vehicle and rolled it over - leading to some busted windows. Schaub was able to exit the vehicle fine, but was heard cursing after his misfortune.