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Shaun White & Nina Dobrev's Love Story TIMELINE
Nina Dobrev and Shaun White are taking their narration to caller heights.
The Olympic golden medalist and Vampire Diaries actress conscionable announced their engagement aft 5 years of dating.
“She said yes,” Shaun wrote successful an Oct. 30 Instagram post, with photos that showed disconnected his romanticist candlelight proposal, and Nina aboriginal added successful her ain post, “RIP Boyfriend, hullo fiancé.”
In the photos that captured the couple’s breathtaking narration milestone, Nina wore a achromatic sparkly formal with polka-dot patterned tights, achromatic heels and her hairsbreadth successful a elemental consecutive hairstyle. Meanwhile, Shaun sported an all-black tuxedo.
The candid photographs were particularly sweet, showcasing Nina’s absorption to Shaun getting down connected 1 genu and an up-close changeable of Nina’s elemental engagement ring, with a ample square-cut diamond successful the halfway of a bladed band.
Nina and Shaun’s large quality comes aft an eventful year for the couple—as the Love Hard actress underwent a serious genu fracture from a biking accident that landed her successful the infirmary and was followed by months of rehabilitation.
Still, the 35-year-old proved that the retired Olympian was her biggest protagonist passim her recovery, sharing that helium purchased a sweatshirt emblazoned with the galore eras of her Vampire Diaries quality Elena Gilbert—and sported it for her successful a goofy video she shared successful a wellness update societal media station successful June.
Since they archetypal began dating successful 2019, Nina and Shaun person proven to beryllium each other’s amended halves, archetypal debuting their romance arsenic they quarantined unneurotic during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. It was astatine that constituent that their narration "really accelerated" and the 2 "made it wide to their friends that they are a superior couple," a root antecedently told E! News.
And erstwhile Shaun retired from nonrecreational snowboarding successful 2022, helium raved of Nina’s “love and support” done the beingness transition—especially considering galore of his household and friends couldn’t beryllium determination to spot his last contention astatine the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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“She knew each of my friends and household couldn't beryllium determination and she got everyone unneurotic and made this unthinkable video of everyone saying however overmuch they privation they could beryllium determination and sending their emotion and support," the 38-year-old told E! News astatine the time, adding that helium played that video "every day" portion successful Beijing. "So that was conscionable truthful wonderful. It truly acceptable the code for the remainder of the trip.”
The extremity of Shaun’s snowboarding vocation was besides lone the opening of 1 of the couple’s favourite associated activities: skiing together. Indeed, the Canada autochthonal and erstwhile Olympian are 2 peas successful a pod erstwhile they deed the slopes.
“She's truly bully connected the board,” Shaun gushed of Nina to E! News earlier this year. “She grew up successful Canada. So, it was bully 'cause that's decidedly sometimes a narration make-or-break. Not if they can't ride, but I've had radical travel up with maine and it didn't extremity good 'cause I'm not the champion manager astatine times.”
Nina’s affinity for skiing is conscionable 1 of the galore reasons their narration ever sticks the landing. As Shaun added to E! News, “It's bully to person a spouse that loves the mountains and is adventurous and each that.”
Keep speechmaking for each measurement of Nina and Shaun’s romance up to their engagement.
January 2020: Happy New Year...
Dobrev and White deed it disconnected aft they partied unneurotic with friends, including her Vampire Diaries co-stars Kayla Ewell and Candice Accola King, at the opening of the Bellagio Resort & Casino's caller supper nine The Mayfair successful Las Vegas connected New Year's Eve.
A twelvemonth later, amid the coronavirus pandemic, Dobrev would stock this photograph of her and White astatine the bash, arsenic good arsenic a video of him lifting her up Dirty Dancing-style lone to person them some topple into the snow. She wrote, "How we thought 2020 would go...how it really went."
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March 2020: Romantic Bike Ride
Dobrev and White spark romance rumors after they are spotted riding bikes unneurotic successful Malibu, Calif. A source tells E! News that the 2 began to "ease into a relationship" aft spending New Year's Eve together, adding that things "really accelerated" betwixt the two after the coronavirus pandemic broke out.
"After spending weeks unneurotic during quarantine," the root says, "Nina and Shaun person made it wide to their friends that they are a superior couple."
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May 2020: Snip Snip
The 2 marque their narration Instagram authoritative erstwhile both share a photograph of the actress trimming White's red hair. Most hairsbreadth salons closed owed to COVID-19 restrictions. Under her post, Dobrev writes, "Adding to resume: hairdresser."
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November 2020: Happy Thanksgiving
Dobrev and White celebrate Thanksgiving with his family, arsenic seen successful photos helium posts connected Instagram.
Instagram / Shaun White
December 2020: Road Trip!
Judging from their Instagrams, Dobrev and White vacationed unneurotic in the Zion National Park country successful Utah doubly successful 2020, successful May and successful December.
December 2020: Happy Holidays
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December 2020: "So In Love"
Just earlier New Year's Eve, different source tells E! News that the 2 "are genuinely truthful successful love."
"They openly speech astir their aboriginal together," the insider continued. "They're conscionable ace happy, and things are going truly good with them."
January 2021: Happy Birthday, Nina... Again!
Dobrev celebrated a "redo" of her 31st day connected her 32rd and White paid tribute to her with photos of the 2 sporting these looks.
October 2021: Check Mate
Alonside pal Adam DeVine, the mates dressed up arsenic characters from The Queen's Gambit for Halloween with White going arsenic as the iconic Beth Harmon and Dobrev channelling U.S. chess champion, Benny Watts.
January 2022: Snow Bunnies
Dobrev deed the slopes with her pro snowboarder emotion astatine Copper Mountain successful Colorado.
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February 2022: Last Olympics
After White finished 4th successful the Men's Snowboard Halfpipe astatine the 2022 Olympics and officially retired from competing, Dobrev expressed however arrogant she was of him.
"The extremity of 1 chapter, means the opening of an breathtaking caller 1 with endless possibilities," she wrote successful portion of an Instagram post. "You volition everlastingly beryllium the G.O.A.T. of snowboarding. Not to notation you are besides the G.(B).O.A.T. = Greatest Boyfriend Of All Time."
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May 2022: Red Carpet Debut
The mates yet went reddish carpet authoritative astatine the Top Gun: Maverick movie premiere successful London.
May 2022: Red Hot Romance
Alongside her tux-clad boyfriend, Dobrev sizzled successful a reddish Monot gown astatine the 28th yearly amfAR Gala during the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
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May 2022: Hearts Racing
The brace watched the qualifying for the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco up of the large race. For the occasion, Dobrev looked wore a chic, chalk-colored suit by Smythe.
June 2022: Fun successful the Sun
The 2 turned up the heat portion vacationing successful the Maldives.
September 2022: Birthday Boy
"I truly picked a victor [ and helium truly picked a booger ]," Dobrev wrote successful an Instagram tribute for White's 36th birthday. "Happy belated Birthday you weirdo. My weirdo. @shaunwhite."
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October 2022: Degrassi Days
What did White truly deliberation of Dobrev's cheerleading country from Degrassi: The Next Generation? The jock gave his reaction connected TikTok and proved erstwhile again they're always on each other's squads.
December 2022: Family Time
The duo celebrated the holidays with a family trip to Mexico.
January 2023: An Out-of-This-World Tribute
"What satellite are you from and volition you instrumentality maine with you?!" White wrote connected Instagram for Dobrev's 34th day during their travel to Antarctica. "Thanks for making beingness incredible! Happy day my love."
February 2023: Valentine's Day
"Life is simply a roller coaster with you," the histrion wrote connected Valentine's Day 2023. "It goes from superior to babe birding successful seconds … convey you for ever making maine smile. blessed valentine’s time @shaunwhite."
January 2024: Sweet Shout-Out
"Life with you has been my top adventure!!" White wrote connected Instagram for Dobrev's 35th birthday. "Happy day my love!!"
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March 2024: Oscars Night
The duo looked truthful crisp astatine the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party they merit their ain trophy.
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July 2024: Happy Independence Day
The 2 celebrated the Fourth of July with respective personage friends, including Miles Teller and Keleigh Teller and Usher.
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