Vanessa Minnillo Shows Off Engagement Ring

Yes, diamonds really are a girl's best friend!

A beaming Vanessa Minnillo proudly showed off her gorgeous engagement ring Thursday in Mexico where she's vacationing with fiance Nick Lachey and some pals.

The ring is an Asscher-cut diamond with baguettes from Bader & Garrin.

"We're excited and incredibly happy about our engagement and we look forward to a wonderful future together," the couple announced in a joint statement after word leaked of their impending nuptials.

Lachey, 36, popped the question in traditional form to Minnillo, 29, last Thursday.

On his Twitter page Friday, Lachey wrote: I popped the question on bended knee. I do a lot of squats so my knees are very strong.

The couple began dating in 2006, a year after he split from wife Jessica Simpson.

Lachey and Minnillo broke up for a while last year before reuniting.

No wedding date has been announced.

Interesting fact: Lachey and Minnillo share the same birthday; on Tuesday, November 9th, she turns 30 while he turns 37.

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Nick Lachey & Vanessa Minnillo Are Engaged!

Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo are engaged, reps for both stars tell Us Magazine exclusively.

"We're excited and incredibly happy about our engagement and we look forward to a wonderful future together," the couple tells Us in a statement.

"They're so happy, doing great," a source adds. "Thrilled about it."

According to another source, Lachey proposed with an Asscher-cut diamond with baguettes from Bader & Garrin.

"I popped the question on bended knee," Lachey tweeted Thursday. "I do a lot of squats so my knees are very strong."

The two began dating in 2006, following his highly-publicized divorce from Jessica Simpson.

Though they briefly split last summer, they got back together a short time later.

The True Beauty host recently told Parade their relationship has lasted all this time because they openly communicate.

"You have to talk through everything," she said. "We talk daily about things that upset us. It's about having a sounding board because if you hold in all your thoughts, dreams, anger and anxiety than you're only hurting yourself."

She said they have no plans to do a reality show a la MTV's Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, which caused strain in Lachey's relationship with Simpson, 30.

Chatting on Good Day Philadelphia last year, the Sing-Off host -- whose show was just renewed for a second season -- said he was "happy" with Minnillo, whom he described as "a very smart girl. She's far smarter than I!"

Lachey and Minnillo have another reason to celebrate: They both have birthdays Nov. 9.

Lachey will be 37; Minnillo, 30.

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Kourtney Steps Out Amidst Wedding Rumors

Getting another work week underway, Kourtney Kardashian looked cheerful as she exited her hotel in New York City on Monday morning (October 18).

Clad in a longsleeve crimson top, jeans and black kneehigh boots, the E! reality star glanced at awaiting paparazzi as she readied to continue shooting "Kim and Kourtney Take New York".

The sighting comes just as Miss Kardashian has landed herself in the National Enquirer with rumors of an upcoming wedding with babydaddy Scott Disick.

Allegedly doing so to rid of negative press stories regarding Disick, the tabloid's source tells, “She told them she and Scott will give their baby Mason a sibling by next year. She’s made it crystal clear they will not play the ‘Bad Scott’ game anymore. Kourtney wants the world to know she and Scott are truly happy, and that he’s so not the villain he’s made out to be on the show. Producers aren’t happy, of course. They feel that all the conflict makes for high ratings."

The insider adds, “Last season she and Scott told producers they wanted to get married, but quickly caved when they were told, ‘No way!’”

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