90 Day Fiancé star Chantel Everett has announced she is engaged to her partner Ashley Bowen.

Bowen proposed to Everett, who shot to fame on the TCL reality show in 2016 alongside then partner Pedro Jimeno, on 17 December at Uhuburg, a Renaissance castle in Helen, Georgia, according to details shared by PEOPLE.

As per the publication, Everett believed the outing was for a photo and video shoot and was shocked when Bowen got down on one knee and popped the question.

“Our love feels like it was written in the stars. So romantic, so authentic, so raw,” the couple exclusively told PEOPLE.

“We love that about ourselves. We love that about our love story.”

In an interview published with Swoon in September, Everett said she met Bowen through her brothers.

“I met Ashley through River and partying, basically. I met her through River at one of his birthday parties, and we got really close after that, and she just became a really good friend of mine,” she said.

“I remember asking one of my friends one time, I was just wondering like, ‘Do you think Ashley likes me?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh no, no, she doesn’t like you. She’s just being a really good friend.’

“But hindsight’s 20/20. She had romantic feelings for me.”

“I feel like what we have built is very healthy,” Everett went on to tell the outlet. “So it feels good to be in a committed relationship with somebody who I feel safe with.”

Everett opened up about her sexuality during an episode of 90 Day: Hunt for Love in August, where she said she wanted to “explore” her relationship with “a friend of mine who is also a woman” and who had admitted they have feelings for her.

“Right before I came to the resort, something did happen with one of my friends,” Everett said of Bowen on a different episode of the show.

“I was hanging out with my friend, Ashley, and we were drinking wine and she explains to me that she has feelings for me that are actually romantic. Well, one thing led to another, and Ashley kisses me. I almost fainted, I was so shocked, and I really liked it.”

She said it “felt like my first kiss ever” and she was “so overwhelmed at what it all meant because I have not ever thought about dating a woman”.

“What would that mean?” she questioned. “What would that mean for me, my dating life, and my sexuality? Does this mean that I’m a lesbian? Just like that? I don’t know.”

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