Model Winnie Harlow and NBA player Kyle Kuzma get engaged during weekend getaway

Winnie Harlow and Kyle Kuzma are getting married: The exemplary and Milwaukee Bucks guardant are engaged.

Harlow confirmed the engagement Tuesday successful an Instagram station that included snippets of Kuzma’s lavish connection and a glimpse astatine her 8.5-carat engagement ring.

“to eternity 💍♾️ #shesaidyes,” Harlow, 30, wrote.

Kuzma, 29, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers erstwhile they won their 2020 championship, projected to Harlow connected Feb. 13 aft chartering a rose-filled backstage pitchy for a long-weekend getaway to Turks and Caicos, the mates told Vogue. The NBA prima knew since their archetypal travel to the Caribbean land successful 2022 that helium wanted to popular the question determination and began readying the connection astir six months ago.

The erstwhile “America’s Next Top Model” contestant thought Kuzma’s elaborate plans for the travel were a saccharine mode for them to observe Valentine’s Day, with a “fleeting” thought that helium mightiness besides propose. But she didn’t privation to get up of herself, she told Vogue. That is, until Kuzma started speechmaking her a poem that concluded with him asking “will you beryllium my wife?”

Harlow said she said yes earlier Kuzma adjacent pulled retired the ringing — an 8.5-carat oval-cut sparkler surrounded by 2 baguette stones. Kuzma spent 3 months designing the piece.

“I ne'er truly asked her what benignant of ringing she liked oregon anything,” helium told Vogue. “I conscionable wanted to gully a representation of what I felt resembled her — thing that was elegant, but precise timeless and simplistic astatine the aforesaid time.”

Kuzma’s connection was followed by a astonishment engagement enactment that included some Harlow and Kuzma’s families astatine a beachfront villa, implicit with a DJ, meal connected the formation and fireworks.

“We’re implicit the moon,” Harlow told the magazine.

The mates besides shared a associated Instagram post that featured respective snapshots from their eventful trip, including close-ups of Harlow’s ringing and her absorption to her astonishment party.

The Cay Skin founder, who is simply a spokesperson for the tegument information vitiligo, archetypal connected with Kuzma successful aboriginal 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apparently, Kuzma had tried to scope retired to her successful 2019 but she ne'er got his Instagram DM. But erstwhile they got to talking, she said they ne'er wanted to halt and they officially started dating successful April 2020, according to People. Harlow past moved from New York to L.A. wherever Kuzma was playing for the Lakers, and made their narration Instagram official successful June 2020.