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The head of the sculpture, posted by Ronaldo on Instagram Image Credit: Instagram

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has taken his love of selfies a step further - by spending Dh115,000 on a waxwork of himself.

And he even paid his Spanish hairdresser to give the statue an inch-perfect trim.

The Ballon d'Or winner posted a picture of the sculpture on Instagram.

He will display the finished piece in his Spanish mansion, according to the Daily Mail.

Ronaldo, 30, commissioned British artist Michael Wade to make the waxwork, the same man who created a similar piece for the Madrid Museum of Wax.

"We still had the mould that we'd used to sculpt him in 2013, so this copy was a complete duplicate," Wade told the Sun newspaper.

"But we left the hair alone, because that's exactly how he wanted it. We put all the hair in, one at a time and then, in Madrid, his hairdresser came along to cut it."