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Speechless. Absolutely beautiful. So in love with YOU. ??

A photo posted by KAYLA RAE REID (@kaylaraereid) on Oct 9, 2016 at 7:17pm PDT

Ryan Lochte is engaged! To a lady he met on Tinder. So… I guess that happens. I never would have thought that Tinder hookups would lead to an engagement, but here we are. It seems like Ryan Lochte met Playmate Kayla Rae Reid back in March of this year, and they immediately hit it off. She stood by him through his Rio Olympics controversy and now she’s standing by him through Dancing with the Stars. I guess that makes her a keeper!

Break out the champagne! Ryan Lochte and model Kayla Rae Reid announced their engagement on Sunday, October 9, sharing the news on their Instagram accounts.

“Memories forever!!! #thelochtes #LA” the 12-time Olympic medalist, 32, captioned a photo that showed the couple kissing on a trail overlooking the Pacific Ocean as Reid displayed her new engagement ring. “Speechless,” the Playboy model wrote as she shared another pic. “Absolutely beautiful. So in love with YOU.”

As Us Weekly exclusively revealed in May, the professional swimmer’s relationship turned serious pretty quickly, with Lochte, even giving them a couple name: #Rayla. The pair began dating this past March, and the current Dancing With the Stars contestant confirmed to Us in May that he was in a relationship with a woman who wasn’t a swimmer.

“It just kind of happened,” he told Us exclusively when asked about dating any of his fellow Olympians. “But now that I have someone, it is stability and it is nice. It’s really nice having someone who isn’t all into swimming and doesn’t really know much [about the sport].”

Reid, who was born in Virginia and raised in California, hinted in an interview with the Daily Mail in August that they met through a dating app.

“He was on Tinder. I might be on Tinder,” she said. “That’s all I’m going to say about it.”

[From Us Weekly]

When their children ask how they met, they’ll have to say “there was this app where you could hook up with strangers on the downlow and we fell in love.” Still, congratulations to Lochte and Kayla, I guess. She’s 25 years old and he’s 32, which seems… okay. I mean, she can’t “model” and “pose for Playboy” forever. And while Lochte lost a lot of endorsements following the Rio debacle, he’s still got money.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Lochte’s IG and Reid’s IG.
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