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Kelsea Ballerini Reveals How She Knows Chase Stokes Is the One! (Exclusive)
When it comes to his and Kelsea Ballerini’s birthdays, Chase Stokes opts for a pogue life-inspired approach.
That is, a haphazard but yet palmy celebration. And with their birthdays lone days apart—the Outer Banks star turns 32 connected Sept. 16 conscionable 4 days aft the state vocalist celebrates 31—that aforesaid mindset holds existent for this year.
“Whatever we bash for our birthday, it's usually spontaneous,” Chase told E! News successful an exclusive interview. But noting helium usually opts to “keep this worldly private,” helium added, “Maybe we'll enactment it connected the Internet, possibly not.”
Further complicating the readying is however engaged some helium and Kelsea are. In summation to Chase’s caller movie Uglies—which stars Joey King and is based connected Scott Westerfield’s 2005 caller of the aforesaid name—premiering connected Netflix Sept. 13, Kelsea besides has a caller nonrecreational endeavor connected the horizon.
Though Chase noted their birthdays thankfully autumn “between enactment stuff,” helium added of his girlfriend of implicit a year, “She precocious announced that she's a coach connected The Voice and truthful she's been engaged there.” (For much with Chase and the Uglies cast, tune into E! News tonight, Sept. 3 astatine 11 p.m.)
Yet portion the Netflix prima noted helium prefers to support immoderate details for betwixt conscionable the 2 of them, his reply is simply a cleanable illustration of his approach to sharing his life with the world: conscionable enough.
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As helium explained E! News successful March, portion helium does stock the occasional wrong look into his backstage life—including his relationship—he doesn't consciousness "any work to share" his idiosyncratic beingness online, though helium does "give a glimpse into present and there."
"Sometimes it feels similar possibly it's an oversharing situation, oregon possibly there's a batch of details," Chase continued, "but I truthfully judge that my idiosyncratic beingness is really, truly private. For the astir part, I inactive consciousness similar I person a truly bully grasp connected my privacy."
And though he and the Grammy nominee bash some pb engaged lives, they’ve recovered ways to marque it work.
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"We've done FaceTime day nights," Chase revealed, "where we'll prime a cuisine and past fig out, 'Do we privation to bash reddish vino tonight? Do we privation to bash a achromatic vino oregon are we conscionable drinking water?' So, we person recovered beauteous ways to marque region astatine times work."
They besides don’t fto that region get successful the mode of spending clip together, adjacent erstwhile Chase is successful South Carolina filming Outer Banks oregon Kelsea is disconnected signaling caller music.
"We've been truly fortunate successful this caller section that our engaged seasons person not overlapped," helium explained. "So, [Kelsea will] either beryllium present oregon I'll spell to Nashville, which has made it truly nice. In the aboriginal and arsenic we've continued to turn successful our relationship, we conscionable effort to marque definite our schedules tin coexist and we person time."
And for much connected Chase and Kelsea’s saccharine romance, work on, and don't miss Uglies' premiere on Netflix Sept. 13.
-Reporting by Daryn Carp
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January 2024: Happy Anniversary
The 2 observe the day of their archetypal date.
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January 2024: Watching the Sunset
Kelsea shares this romanticist pic connected their archetypal dating anniversary.
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January 2024: Naughty Selfie
"A full travel astir the prima with my bestie," Kelsea writes successful her day post. "@hichasestokes acknowledgment for making maine constitute emotion songs."
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January 2024: Chase's Anniversary Post
"One twelvemonth of lovin you," the histrion writes. "P.s. told ya I wouldn’t embarrass you."
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November 2023: Sex Confession
Kelsea revealed details of their enactment beingness successful November 2023, telling Alex Cooper connected Call Her Daddy, "I'm having a bully time."
"My acquisition with it was precise performative and for the different person," she noted. "And it don't beryllium similar that anymore."
The instrumentalist didn't recognize however enactment could beryllium "a existent connector successful a relationship" earlier dating him.
"I ever thought that it was conscionable thing that you did due to the fact that that's who you bash it with," the Grammy nominee shared. "Now I recognize it's a connector for people."
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November 2023: Loving Like They Mean It
Kelsea plants a smooch connected Chase's feature astatine the CMA Awards successful November 2023.
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September 2023: A Black Tie Affair
Kelsea and Chase are dressed to the nines erstwhile they attended decorator Giorgio Armani's One Night Only lawsuit connected successful Venice, Italy.
The singer-songwriter and the Outer Banks prima stock images of their getaway connected Instagram, including snaps from a cooking people and lounging astatine the beach.
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September 2023: All Smiles
Kelsea shares this behind-the-scenes look from the event.
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September 2023: Birthday Love
To commemorate Kelsea's 30th day connected Sept. 12, 2023 Chase posts a carousel of photos and videos of the three-time Grammy nominee.
"Dirty 30 looks beauteous damn bully connected you ballerini," helium captions the series. "i emotion you."
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September 2023: Couple's Selfie
Kelsea unveils this pic connected Chase's 31st day days later.
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September 2023: Red Hot
The 2 look unneurotic astatine the 2023 MTV VMAs connected Kelsea's birthday.
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September 2023: Red Carpet Romance
The 2 stock a buss astatine the event.
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August 2023: NYC Date Night
The 2 are spotted connected a summertime day successful NYC, wherever she performs connected TODAY.
"It's conscionable bully to consciousness truthful supported and seen," Kelsea says connected the amusement of Chase, "and, yeah, he's specified a wonderful, fantastic quality being."
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August 2023: Ciao Bella
The mates lone person eyes for 1 different astatine a Venice Film Festival event.
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July 2023: The Sweetest Surprise
Chase shocks Kelsea erstwhile helium unexpectedly greets her astatine the airport, with some stars posting video and photos from their adorable reunion.
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July 2023: PDA Alert
The 2 be Armani Beauty's ACQUA DI GIO and Gen A solemnisation successful Malibu, Calif.
May 2023: Hometown Visit
Chase joins Kelsea connected a travel to her hometown of Knoxville, Tenn.
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April 2023: Red Carpet Debut
The brace officially measurement retired arsenic a mates astatine the CMT Music Awards.
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April 2023: Broadway Baby
The twosome be the premiere enactment for the Broadway philharmonic Shucked at Capitale.
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April 2023: Award Show PDA
The 2 showcase their emotion connected the CMAs reddish carpet.
February 2023: Instagram Cuteness
Chase shares a pic of himself and Kelsea showing immoderate PDA.
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January 2023: First Date Nerves
In August 2023, Kelsea posts footage of the opening of their relationship, sharing a throwback clip connected TikTok of herself preparing for their archetypal authoritative day connected Jan. 7, 2023.
"Happy weekend," she captions the post, "heres a video one sent to my champion person earlier my archetypal day with chase."
Set to her opus "How Do I Do This," which is astir going connected a archetypal day aft galore years, Kelsea models her outfit successful the video.
"Here's the look, with the boots" Kelsea says portion checking herself retired successful a full-length mirror. Turning astir to showcase her half-up, half-down hairstyle, she adds, "We've got the hairsbreadth clip, due to the fact that we're trying to beryllium a chill girl."
She continues speaking to an unnamed friend, explaining, "He's picking maine up and we're going to a sushi spot and I'll telephone you time and for a afloat update."
Taking a heavy enactment and raising 1 limb and digit successful the air, she yet says, "I tin bash this. I tin bash this." And, aft doing a small dance, she proclaims, "It's conscionable a date. You conscionable spell and you conscionable devour nutrient and you speech astir things that you do, OK?"
January 2023: Romance Rumors
The 2 are photographed looking cozy astatine a shot game.
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December 2022: Shooting Her Shot
Kelsea Ballerini slides into Chase Stokes' DMs connected Dec. 1, 2022 astatine 1:30 a.m. portion she was retired drunk with friends astatine a bar.
They yet met up successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal clip connected Jan. 7, 2023, which she considers their anniversary.
"He hopped retired of his Bronco, and helium did not accidental a connection to me," Kelsea aboriginal recalls connected Call Her Daddy successful November 2023, "and helium grabbed my look and helium kissed maine and helium pulled my look distant and helium said, 'Thank God you're real.'"
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December 2022: Shooting Her Shot
Their romance blossomed aft that archetypal DM, which Kelsea shares successful September 2023.
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