Alexis Bellino and John Janssen Courtesy of Alexis Bellino/Instagram
Alexis Bellino and boyfriend John Janssen are engaged after lower than 1 yr of relationship.
“On Cloud 9 🎉❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️, celebrating 9 months of affection and laughter, and looking out ahead to my endlessly with you,” Bellino, 47, wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday, August 28, whereas saying the massive information. “Each second collectively has been a present. I’m so in love with you and the gorgeous life we’re constructing collectively. And the reply is 100000000% sure.”
The Actual Housewives of Orange County star concluded the submit with an excerpt from the Bible’s Corinthians 13:13, writing, “And now these three stay: religion, hope and love. However the biggest of those is love. #giftfrommym.”
Alongside the proposal announcement was a photograph of the couple smiling at one another as Bellino confirmed off her diamond sparkler for the digital camera. She additionally shared a sequence of movies by way of her Instagram Tales of the duo celebrating their 9 month anniversary by having fun with a romantic getaway at a secluded ranch.
Many stars are taking their relationships to the following stage in 2024 by getting engaged. Lower than one month after Bachelor in Paradise season 9 alum Brayden Bowers revealed that he was relationship fellow Bachelor Nation character Christina Mandrell, he proposed. “I simply knew that there was one thing particular, and there was one thing totally different, and […]
When followers have been first launched to Bellino throughout RHOC season 4, she was married to now-ex-husband Jim Bellino. The previous spouses wed in 2005 and finalized their divorce in 2018. Collectively they share three kids: son James, 18, and twins Miles and Mackenna, 16. Whereas she exited the Bravo present after season 8, Bellino returned for season 18, which premiered in July.
Janssen, in the meantime, has a protracted historical past with Bellino’s fellow RHOC costar Shannon Beador. The twosome dated on and off from June 2019 to November 2022.
Bellino and Janssen first sparked romance rumors in December 2023 after they have been launched by means of mutual pals the month prior. The pair made their official crimson carpet debut in March on the DirecTV Oscars Viewing Get together in Los Angeles, and Bellino instructed Us Weekly later that month why she was barely hesitant to substantiate the romance.
“I used to be a little bit bit nervous, nevertheless it’s as a result of we’ve been so judged by our relationship,” Bellino admitted. “It began as a friendship, fashioned into extra and right here we’re. [And] social media actually will be very evil. So it’s been lots, however now we simply lastly determined we’re taking the bull by the horns and going full power.”
In the end, Bellino mentioned the damaging criticism solely strengthened her reference to Janssen, telling Us, “It counteracted what they actually wished to do, which is tear us down, and really made us stronger.”
Though Bellino has but to movie with Janssen this season, he did pop up within the midseason trailer that dropped final week. Bellino and Beador, in the meantime, have continued to have rising rigidity between them. Final momth, Beador solely instructed Us that there are causes “apart” from her ex-boyfriend that make her not wish to “pursue a friendship” with Bellino.
“There’s the clip of her going, ‘You’re not going to win my man’ or one thing. It’s like, I’m not within the competitors. Take pleasure in!” she quipped, including that whereas she was initially damage by the romance, she has moved on from that chapter of her life.
“John broke up with me after three and a half years. It was fairly public, and for six months he dated somebody. I dated somebody, however we did reconnect and neither of us admitted it,” she defined. “I feel we each knew deep down it was by no means going to work, however we did care about one another. And so for an additional six months, we have been again collectively performing like we have been boyfriend and girlfriend …I’m glad that we’re not collectively anymore and perhaps one thing like this needed to occur to ensure that me to interrupt ties.”
