Bachelor in Paradise couple Pieper James and Brendan Morais are enjoying a romantic island getaway in celebration of Brendan's birthday.
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Based on a photo of Brendan modeling on a dock, it appears they are staying at the Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort & Casino.
On Monday, Pieper uploaded an image of herself posing on the side of a large boat.
The 23-year-old wrote alongside the picture, "Golden child," and subsequently shared a video on Instagram Stories of her apparent sunset boat cruise with Brendan.
This past weekend, Pieper posted a photo of herself sprawled out on a surf board in the ocean and she captioned it, "Salty, sun kissed, & smiling."
Pieper also wished her boyfriend a happy birthday on Instagram Stories considering he just turned 32 years old on Sunday.
"Happy birthday B, the only person I know who wears sneakers and socks to the beach," Pieper wrote over a photo of the couple embracing and laughing on the beach, according to People.
In addition, the pair have reportedly shared photos on Instagram Stories showing they received a massage by the pool, hiked by the ocean, and conducted a desert photo shoot.
After a bumpy ride on Bachelor in Paradise, Pieper told Us Weekly in mid-September that she and Brendan were "working through things" and "taking it day by day."
E! News reported about two weeks later the pair had reportedly split in order to focus on themselves and quiet public backlash, but during a mid-October appearance on The Bachelorette alum Becca Kufrin's "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast, Pieper denied the breakup report and set the record straight.
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RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOW"That's just all they are, is rumors," Pieper said at the time.
"I mean, I can understand [with] Brendan unfollowing me [on Instagram] and that kind of thing why people maybe came to the conclusion that we split. But we're still together."
Pieper said she and Brendan intentionally kept their romance under wraps after leaving Paradise together.
"The reason we didn't choose to go public [with our post-show romance] like everybody else on the show was just because, obviously, our experience was a little bit different. We tainted our own experience in that way," Pieper explained.
Bachelor in Paradise appeared to catch Brendan using Natasha Parker as a placeholder while waiting for Pieper -- whom he apparently dated for about two months "without labels" before filming began -- to arrive in Paradise this past summer.
Brendan, while covering his microphone on the beach, admitted to "incriminating" himself by essentially admitting to Pieper he had downplayed their pre-Paradise romance to other cast members and had to do "certain things" in the process to ensure they could reunite on the beach.
Pieper and Brendan were also taped talking about their influencer status and the number of social-media followers they had prior to the show.
Natasha, who developed strong feelings for Brendan along the way, called the bachelor "a liar" and "manipulative" clout-chaser considering Brendan had insisted he and Pieper just had a "super casual" fling back home and had only hung out twice.
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"So we are kind of working on ourselves and each other, and we're focusing on being a couple before taking that public," Pieper continued on the podcast. "Because obviously, this hasn't been an easy thing to go through."
Once the footage aired of Brendan betraying Natasha, he lost more than 100,000 Instagram followers and Pieper's follower count dropped about 9,000. As for Natasha, she gained nearly 400,000 followers, Entertainment Tonight reported.
"There's a lot of flaws in seeing what played out, you know, obviously I wasn't there the whole time and I didn't see it all, so seeing it all play out [is a lot]," Pieper acknowledged. "But we're together... That's where we stand right now."
Several Bachelor in Paradise 7 cast members, including Demi Burnett, told Brendan and Pieper to leave the show if they had any "dignity" left, which resulted in Brendan complaining his co-stars were making "a pathetic attempt to intimidate" him.
But since they were not wanted on the beach and the environment had become toxic, Brendan and Pieper left the beach on their own terms and said they'd continue their relationship at home.
Pieper told Becca on her podcast that all the drama actually strengthened the bond she has with Brendan.
"We were dealing with conflict kind of with each other but also from an outside perspective. It did make us stronger [because] right away, we knew how we both communicated in arguments... and how we dealt with, like, exterior bad things," she said.
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In September, Brendan released a lengthy seven-minute video apology on his Instagram account and was adamant about the fact he and Pieper had never been in an exclusive relationship prior to Paradise.
And Pieper -- who previously claimed, when drama was at its peak, she had no regrets -- said, however, she's "truly sorry" for hurting Natasha and anyone else through her actions.
"I'm not saying it was, like, peaches and rainbows the whole time," Pieper noted of her Brendan relationship.
"But it was good to kind of have that feedback and know down the line if something comes up how we both deal with those things."
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"At the end of the day, I'm happy with my decision. I'm happy with Brendan, as controversial as that might be to say," Pieper told Becca.
"I just kind of did what I always do and followed my gut and my heart and connected the dots. That's the experience I got."
After Brendan and Pieper left the show, three couples got engaged on Bachelor in Paradise's Season 7 finale: Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt, Kenny Braasch and Mari Pepin-Solis, and Maurissa Gunn and Riley Christian.
Prior to appearing on Bachelor in Paradise, Pieper competed for Matt James' heart on The Bachelor's 25th season earlier this year, and Brendan competed for both Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adams on The Bachelorette's sixteenth season last year.
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