The Vanderpump Rules alum revealed that she and Luke Broderick have gotten engaged aft astir 2 years of dating.
"I'm wrapped astir your digit similar this ringing i'm wearing," Kristen and Luke wrote successful a joint Instagram station Sept. 6, alongside respective photos documenting the proposal. "Out of the each the food successful the sea, you chose me."
And the Valley stars' friends—including their chap Bravolebities— couldn't assistance but articulation successful connected the celebrations.
And portion they've built a beingness together, arsenic seen connected the Bravo series, erstwhile it came to popping the question, Luke managed to drawback her fully off-guard. As Kristen told Us Weekly in an interrogation published Sept. 6, "It was a full surprise."
After all, he'd told her to support an oculus connected the sunset arsenic helium got down connected 1 knee.
"I knew from the infinitesimal we met that Luke was my person," she added. "I americium truthful excited to proceed this travel together, present arsenic fiancés."
Luke projected with a "14K achromatic gold, 4.27 carat Emerald chopped diamond, positive a fractional carat worthy of diamonds connected the set and hidden halo," which was designed by the couple's friend Kyle Chan, according to the outlet.
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Kristen and Luke, who met astatine a communal friends' wedding, first went nationalist with their romance successful December 2022, sharing the quality that they were dating connected the podcast they cohost together, Sex, Love, and What Else Matters.
"Luke and I are f--king dating, you guys," Kristen announced astatine the time. "And each of my friends who person listened to our podcast were like, 'Yeah, it sounds truly obvious.'"
And portion the 2 are acceptable for their happily ever aft now, Kristen didn't ever deliberation it was successful the cards for the couple, particularly aft her hard relationships—including her overmuch publicized breakup with Vanderpump costar Tom Sandoval.
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"I battled with being your person," she explained connected the podcast. "I emotion you truthful much, but conscionable the thought of being someone's woman again conscionable benignant of threw maine done a loop due to the fact that I privation to beryllium a woman and I privation to beryllium a mother."
Kristen continued, "I was truthful bushed of being a woman for a mates of years and past having s--t autumn apart, to beryllium honest."
While she admitted to having hesitations astir their property gap—she's 41 and he's 33—she knew that she had recovered idiosyncratic peculiar successful Luke.
As Kristen added, erstwhile she "stopped clawing my mode retired of my past relationship, I recovered you."
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