The Bachelorette alum Andi Dorfman has gushed about her relationship with boyfriend Blaine Hart and how she's totally in love.
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"We've said a lot of things, a lot of cliche phrases like, 'Timing is everything,' [and] 'When you know, you know,'" Blaine, 35, told Us Weekly on Saturday.
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Andi, 34, promised the magazine that if -- or when -- she and Blaine get engaged, "I will tell you guys first, after we tell our parents."
Andi, who starred on The Bachelorette's tenth season, officially debuted her new boyfriend on Instagram on New Year's Eve.
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Andi posted a photo of the couple kissing at The Breakers Palm Beach and captioned it, "By far my favorite thing from 2021."
And then on New Year's Day, Andi uploaded a photo of the pair posing side by side in formal attire outside of the swanky hotel.
"Cheers to a year filled with love and sparkles. 2022... I have a feeling you might very well be the best one yet! Happy New Year," Andi wrote alongside her post.
The former reality TV star said she decided to go public with her romance because she had "met someone that I wanted everyone to know about."
"It sounds cliche, but shout from the rooftops, I was like, 'I want everyone to know how happy I am in love,'" Andi shared.
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Once Andi received support and words of encouragement from her friends and social-media followers, she said it made her "want to even go deeper and share more of it because I realize people are actually happy for me to find love."
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Meanwhile, Blaine, a commercial real estate professional, is also smitten with his girlfriend.
"Where do I start?" Blaine asked Us. "I think we have a great chemistry, a good connection. She's very smart, also very funny, keeps me laughing... The list is long, but the humor is at the top."
Andi initially revealed on Instagram in November 2021 that she was dating someone special, but she didn't disclose his identity at the time.
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On November 10, Andi posted a photo of herself embracing Blaine, who was hiding his face, on Instagram.
"Forever an ATL gal," Andi captioned the picture along with a heart emoji.
In the photo, Andi's followers could see the back of a man's head who was wearing an Atlanta Braves hat in Los Angeles. It appeared Andi wanted to protect Blaine from fame at the time.
It turns out Andi and Blaine -- who claims he didn't watch her The Bachelorette season -- actually met 15 years ago and reunited in Summer 2021.
"He was kind of hitting me up a little bit," Andi explained of how she and Blaine exited the friend zone.
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"And then we were both in Italy [on separate vacations]... And he basically said, 'I want to take you out for drinks' [and we've] been together ever since!"
Andi recalled meeting up with Blaine and having "no expectations," but she couldn't deny his good looks.
"When he walked into the bar... I was like, 'Dang, he's so cute,'" Andi gushed to Us.
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But the pair are trying to make a long-distance relationship work and have been "splitting time" between South Carolina -- where Blaine lives -- and Los Angeles, CA, where Andi currently resides.
"I'm trying to convince him [to move to L.A.]," Andi said.
A source previously told E! News that Andi is the happiest she's ever been in her life and the former The Bachelorette star and Blaine are "the perfect match."
"Her friends and family absolutely adore Blaine!" the source noted, adding that Blaine is a "really sweet guy."
Andi, a former assistant district attorney from Atlanta, GA, found fame when she appeared on The Bachelor's 18th season starring Juan Pablo Galavis.
Andi proceeded to star on The Bachelorette in 2014, when she rejected runner-up Nick Viall and got engaged to winner Josh Murray. The finale aired in July 2014.
Andi and Josh announced their split on January 8, 2015. Almost two months later, Andi took to Twitter to reveal she had decided to move to New York City. She then relocated to California in June 2020.
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Andi has written two tell-all memoirs, It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After as well as Single State of Mind, the first of which bashes Josh and how he had treated her during their short-lived relationship.
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Andi had accused Josh of being verbally abusive, temperamental and controlling in her book -- which Josh in turn called "fiction."
"I was disgusted with myself for what I put up with. I was a strong, independent woman and I allowed [Josh] to be [emotionally abusive]. Now, I know I don't want someone jealous or controlling. I know what won't make me happy in [the future]," Andi told People in 2016.
"We all have red flags in our relationships that we don't see. Looking back and seeing those red flags was very cathartic for me. I realized our relationship wasn't the highlight of my life like I thought it was. So I took it off the pedestal and realized all was not lost."
Andi admitted in January 2021 that she would have made very different choices on The Bachelorette if she could go back and do it all over again.
"Honestly, if I had to pick a different person from my season it would not have been Nick, who was second. It would have been Chris Soules, who was third," Andi reportedly said on the Dax Holt and Adam Glyn's "Hollywood Raw" podcast.
"He was my buddy, my friend. I really liked Nick and Josh... Chris was like my safety blanket. He was the guy I could go on a date with and I knew that we would have a good time. There wasn't a ton of pressure."
Andi, who was single at the time, said she wouldn't want to do the show again, even though she really enjoyed starring on The Bachelorette.
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