Michelle Younger has discovered her Fortunately Ever After.
It simply took her somewhat bit longer than anticipated.
In response to Folks journal, the previous Bachelorette lead acquired engaged again on October 24 in her native city of Edina, Minnesota.
A lot to her excessive shock!
Below the belief she was headed to the wilderness to movie a business, Younger was shocked to seek out boyfriend Jack Leius finally on the identical location as properly.
“I completely froze when I saw Jack standing in the middle of this beautiful flower arch of white roses,” Younger recalled to the aforementioned publication, including on this interview:
“I was fooled so badly that for a moment I thought the joke was that Jack was one of the male models that I would be working with at the shoot.”
Added Younger, blown away by the lengths her now-fiance went to with a view to pull off this shocker:
“I hadn’t even slightly sensed this was happening today.”
Younger first appeared on season 25 of The Bachelor in 2021, ending second as Matt James’ runner-up on the time.
She went on to star on season 18 of The Bachelorette later that yr … getting engaged to Nayte Olukoya on the finale of the present … solely to cut up from Nayte in June 2022.
Issues acquired form of ugly between the exes as properly.
Younger went Instagram official with Leius in November 2023, captioning social footage of the pair with, “Hit the Jackpot with you.”
The 2 additionally attended Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist’s Golden Bachelor wedding ceremony in January, across the identical time they moved in collectively.
As for a way they met?
“She has a good friend and her friend has a little brother, who I know, and her friend’s little brother posted Michelle in his [Instagram] Story, and so I kinda just hit him up a couple times,” Leius defined on the “Almost Famous” podcast many months in the past. “Like, ‘Hey, man, when are you gonna introduce me to Michelle?’”
The introduction happened, the pair met and immediately spent the subsequent “four days together,” Leius added again then.
Quick ahead to October and the presentation of a 3.56-carat emerald-cut diamond and the remainder is romantic historical past.
“I tried to say yes several times but was in shock that no words really came out,” Younger gushed to Folks. “There were a lot of happy tears and of course I said YES!”
