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Bachelor alum Becca Tilley has found her forever person.
Tilley, who was the runner-up on the 19th season of the dating series, when Chris Soules starred, and returned in the following one to romance Ben Higgins before being eliminated ahead of hometown dates, is engaged to pop singer and actress Hayley Kiyoko.
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“My dream girl said yes to forever,” a collection of photos from the big moment were captioned in an Instagram post shared by both.
The images show them both in and around sparkling waters, with Kiyoko on bended knee at one point. Tilley, shown in tears, admires a sparkling ring on her hand, and Kiyoko lifts her off the ground as the two celebrate.
They have been a couple for seven years, although they didn’t confirm their relationship until 2022, when they shared a kiss onstage at a party for Kiyoto’s song “For the Girls.” Tilley appears in the Bachelor-themed video for the track.
That was four years after they met at an April 2018 release party for Kiyoko’s album Expectations. (The artist’s acting credits include Lemonade Mouth, The Fostersand Jem and the Holograms,)
Six years after the introduction, Tilley recalled that she had not looking for love.
“I wore a shirt that said ‘no time for romance,'” she wrote on Instagram. “Hayley ignored it.”
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Still, Tilley said, the pair “fell in love so quickly.” She added, “It really is a cosmic mystery how someone can be a stranger in one moment and quickly become the most important person in the next.”
She had previously expressed that she wanted to keep her post-reality TV relationships private. By then, she thought she deserved it.
“My last relationship was pretty public and out there and I’ve kind of got to the point where I’m like, ‘Am I able to keep anything to myself?’ So in this process of dating and going through that again, I’ve been trying to keep it more low-key … it’s been tricky,” the Louisiana native said. “It’s a tough world out there, the dating world.”
