90 Day Fiance alum Deavan Clegg has announced she's officially engaged to boyfriend Christopher "Topher" Park after nearly three years of dating.
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"He did ask me in November," Deavan, 26, shared with In Touch Weekly on Tuesday, March 7 of the marriage proposal.
"So like a month after we had our baby, he finally popped the question, about time. But yeah, we are officially engaged now."
Deavan said Topher, 30, proposed marriage during a birthday getaway in Salt Lake City, UT, which had initially been postponed due to her son Taeyang's battle with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a diagnosis Deavan had revealed in May 2022.
Deavan -- who shares Taeyang, 3, with Jihoon -- had suspicion Topher was going to get down on one knee, and so she said she "hyped" herself up for the significant moment in her life.
"Then the next day he was running late to pick me up because he had to go get a haircut," Deavan told the magazine, joking about how it was a "rough" road to the proposal.
"Then he called me and told me that he got a flat tire and I was like, 'Oh he's lying. Like he's just buying time, like maybe he's going to get flowers.' Turns out he really did have a flat tire."
When Topher returned to the couple's hotel room, Deavan recalling him receiving an important phone call. He was apparently informed "something bad happened" and so he "had to go to work."
Topher was stuck at work until 3AM, which left Deavan feeling "sad" and deflated. She had assumed the marriage proposal was going to be delayed because of the unforeseen circumstances.
However, the following morning, Topher surprised Deavan with a ring while they were casually packing up their belongings in their hotel room.
"I didn't say 'yes' right away because my brain didn't register that he was still doing the proposal because of how bad everything went," Deavan explained.
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOW"And then I made him sit on the couch and he is like, 'So is that a yes or a no?' And I said, 'Oh yes.' And then I grabbed the ring and just put it on myself and he was like, 'I'm supposed to put it on you.' And I was like, 'No, my fingers are swollen from the baby, like let me do it.'"
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Deavan confirmed the proposal "didn't go as planned at all" but it "fits their story perfect."
"It seems like something wild is always happening," Deavan admitted. "So everybody was joking saying that was actually the perfect proposal with for us, because of how crazy our lives are."
Deavan -- who also has a daughter Drascilla, her first-born child, from a previous relationship -- first sparked engagement rumors when she and Topher were spotted wearing rings on their left ring fingers.
But Deavan clarified to In Touch, "We had like a couple ring and the only reason we wore that couple ring is because -- it's a funny story, but he wanted to bring me as a plus one to his friend's wedding, but his friend said, 'No girlfriends, only fiancees and wives.'"
Deavan therefore confessed, "So we wore those rings just so I could go wedding and I never took it off."
Deavan and Topher announced they were expecting a child together back in May 2022.
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Deavan got pregnant with Baby No. 3 after suffering a miscarriage only months beforehand in April 2021.
Jihoon confirmed he and Deavan had split in August 2020 after one year of marriage, which was around the same time Deavan started hinting she was in a new relationship by posting photos of an unidentified man on Instagram with his face cropped out.
Deavan officially filed for divorce from Jihoon in September 2020, but she accused Jihoon of dragging out the process by not signing the papers and cooperating.
In that same month, Deavan and the mystery man -- who turned out to be Topher, a Korean-American actor -- went Instagram official when Topher posted sexy photos with Deavan on social media.
Deavan revealed she actually met Topher in the Los Angeles airport while she was still in a relationship with Jihoon but the pair's first interaction was casual and they didn't follow up on anything until after Deavan became single again.
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After dating for a brief amount of time, Deavan and Topher moved in together.
Deavan, whose divorce from Jihoon wasn't finalized until last year, previously claimed Jihoon had been "abusive" during their relationship and had done "disgusting" and "vile" things.
Deavan even alleged Jihoon had abused Drascilla, which Jihoon firmly denied.
In a Q&A session on Instagram in May 2022, Deavan insisted Jihoon's alleged lack of responsiveness and care for Taeyang is why a judge awarded her full custody of Taeyang during the divorce proceedings.
Deavan revealed in August 2020 she had moved back to the United States after trying to move to South Korea for the second time to be with Jihoon. She then confirmed their split on social media shortly afterwards.
But Deavan revealed in her Q&A that she and Jihoon actually ended their relationship in November 2019, shortly after she had announced having a miscarriage with their second child on social media, but they chose to continue filming 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way for the money.
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"He would very much love that... Blood doesn't make a father a father," Deavan shared on Instagram Stories.
She elaborated, "Topher has been in Taeyang's life for two years. Taeyang calls Topher dad and cries for him more than me. I think Taeyang only knows him. Unfortunately, that is what my ex decided. He had his rights and didn't take them."
Deavan insisted in 2020 she was completely done filming with the 90 Day Fiance franchise after multiple bad experiences. Deavan said she had been asked to fake scenes with Jihoon, and she also accused the editing team of making Drascilla look out of control.
Deavan additionally alleged 90 Day Fiance's production company had driven cast members to consider suicide.
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