For Kim Kardashian, the third engagement really is
the charm.
The 33-year-old reality star has gushed that the
father of her child and now-fiancé, Kanye West,
pulled off a proposal this week that swept her off her
feet.
"I am the luckiest girl in the world!" Kardashian said
to E!, which airs her family's reality series, "Keeping
Up with the Kardashians." "I get to marry my best
friend!"
West and Kardashian have known each other for
years, as West told Kardashian matriach Kris Jenner
on her talk show in August, and for the Grammy-
winning rapper it was love at first sight.
"I was in love with her before I even got to talk to
her," West, 36, said. "Being in the limelight, you have
to have a match, or someone that's equally yoked.
It's difficult, because there's people that you would
date who would try to date you to maybe be more
famous, or people who would want you to be less
famous than you were, and just not accept who you
are in life. And when I would be on the phone with
(Kim), even at my lowest moments, she'd give me
energy and remind me of who I was."
After dating publicly for a little over a year and
welcoming their first child together, daughter North,
in June, West popped the question on Kardashian's
33rd birthday Monday.
The artist set up an elaborate surprise at San
Francisco's AT&T Park, which he rented out for the
proposal and filled with Kardashian's close friends
and family members. Kardashian's mom knew what
'Ye was up to, as he'd asked her for her blessing.
So on Monday, the artist got down on one knee and
proposed as his question flashed on the arena's
jumbotron: "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!" And that
wasn't all: a 50-piece orchestra played Lana Del
Rey's "Young and Beautiful" followed by West's own
song with Keri Hilson, "Knock You Down," with the
whole extravaganza being topped off with fireworks.
Accepting West's 15-carat Lorraine Schwartz
sparkler, Kardashian responded to his proposal with
an enthusiastic "YES!!!"
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