Jon Gosselin has found love again, and he’s finally ready to talk about it. In an exclusive interview with The Sun, the former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star revealed that he has been in a relationship for the last two years but only decided to openly share the relationship now.
In fact, now Jon says he's the "happiest" he's ever been.
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Jon and his girlfriend have managed to fly under the radar.
In the interview, Jon revealed that he's been dating Stephanie Lebo for the last two years but decided not to go public with the relationship.
Jon and Stephanie met at a mutual friend’s backyard party and immediately hit it off. Jon had been single for a few months after the end of his last relationship.
Though the couple met in person, social media was where the relationship began. "We started DMing each other and after that we just never stopped talking," he said.
Their relationship developed quickly.
After two days of nonstop talking, Jon asked Stephanie out on a date for the same evening.
"I just showed up all sweaty with no makeup on, curly hair with my gym outfit at this very nice bar and he liked me as I was. It was cute," Stephanie shared.
She also revealed that he ordered her cheesecake, but she "doesn’t like cheese." Despite this, she still found the move endearing.
It sounds like it was practically love at first sight.
The pair clearly hit it off right away.
"I wanted to kiss him in the parking lot after that first date, he walked me to my car and did that Cinderella spin thing to me and I just felt it," Stephanie explained. "But he just looked in my eyes and said, ‘I’ll see you tomorrow.'"
She added, "When I got home I told him, 'I wanted to kiss you' and he said, 'I did too.' Then it just went from there."
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'She just happened,' he said.
Jon had just come out of a long-term relationship, but that didn’t seem to matter when it came to Stephanie. "I wasn’t looking for anything, and neither was she but it just happened," he shared.
If anything, his past relationships, including his marriage and divorce from Kate Gosselin, the mother of his eight children, set him up to be a better partner to Stephanie.
"She said to me, 'I have a kid' and I just said, 'a kid? Who cares, I have eight!'" he shared.
There's no word if Stephanie has a relationship with Collin and Hannah.
Of course, Stephanie knew that Jon had been a reality TV star, but his past fame didn’t change the way she viewed him as a person. "It didn’t phase me or anything and I never treated him any different," she said.
"I did know who he was when I first met him, although I haven’t watched the show as faithfully as some others have," she shared, adding that she had only seen a few episodes of the show in the past.
"I feel it’s taken 19 years to find Steph. All the trials and tribulations, the heartbreak, the fighting, and worrying about who is going to talk about me to the press, then finally I meet Steph," Jon said.
The couple didn’t talk about how much of a relationship Stephanie has with Collin and Hannah, the two children he has custody of from his marriage to Kate.
