Braunwyn Windham-Burke and girlfriend Jennifer Spinner are officially engaged.
“I’ve never been happier,” the “Real Housewives of Orange County” alum said to People on Saturday, confirming the news of her engagement to Spinner exactly a year after they began dating.
“Jen is my person. She said to me once, ‘How much do you love me?’ And I looked at her and said, ‘It’s not how much I love you. It’s how small I love you. I love you on a molecular level.'”
Continuing, she said, “And that’s really it. My DNA was made for her. I’m thrilled to be able to say now, ‘This is my fiancée’ — just like I know, I’m going to one day be able to say, ‘This is my wife.'”
Braunwyn — whose divorce with Sean Burke has yet to be finalized — popped the question at 14th Street Park in New York City while recreating the couple’s first date throughout the city.
The reality star officially filed for divorce from Sean in October 2022 after 23 years of marriage.
The former couple share seven children together: Bella, 22, Rowan, 20, Jacob, 17, 9-year-old twins Caden and Curren, Koa, 7, and Hazel, 4.
“Part of the reason I proposed now was because I now have an end date in my divorce; we’re about 80 days from it wrapping,” she explained to People.
The former reality star noted that the two “exchanged promise rings” and had their non-legally-binding Vegas wedding together because Braunwyn’s divorce “seemed endless” to them and they wanted to “set intentions in [their] relationship.”
The former Bravolebrity explained that these actions were as if they were saying to each other, “This is what we are promising to each other. This is our commitment to start a life together.”
“I proposed today knowing we can actually start planning a wedding. So it feels incredible.”
In March, Braunwyn told Pvnew in an exclusive sit-down interview that the reason she took the step to file for divorce was due to Sean allegedly emptying their joint bank account.
“It’s the reason I did file for divorce. When you’re still legally married, there’s not a lot to protect you,” she told us.
“So Sean had emptied out our joint bank accounts unbeknownst to me,” she further claimed.
“Literally, one day I woke up and I had no access to any of my cards or any money. And that was why I filed for divorce.”
However, since meeting Spinner, Braunwyn — who got sober in 2020 — told People that her life today is what she has “wanted for so long.”
“I was always looking for something — whether it was drinking or partying or a TV show or fame — and I couldn’t find it. And obviously, it’s not one person who creates calm in you; it’s a bunch of things in your life coming together at the same time.
“But I can honestly say, Jen started the ball rolling on that all. And I’m not grasping for anything anymore,” she shared.
“I’ve finally found it.”
