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Vanessa Hudgenshas found comfort in herengagementtoCole Tucker.
TheHigh School Musicalstar, 34, toldToday’sHoda KotbandJenna Bush Hagerabout her refreshed confidence as she prepares to walk down the aisle to Tucker, 26.
“It feels amazing. It’s so funny, I was talking about this with Cole…. People are always like, ‘Does it feel different? [Do] things feel different [getting engaged]?'” Hudgens shared on Friday. “That was always my question normally, but now I get to be asked it.”
“And you know what, it actually does,” she continued. “There’s a sense of security. You feel so safe. It’s the best thing ever. I love being a fiancée.”
The actress, who first showed off her ring onInstagramon Feb. 9 in a joint post with her baseball player beau, said she knew almost immediately that he was the one.
Hudgens also responded to Tucker’stweet from back in 2012when he was a teen about being “in search of: A girl who’s down to watchHigh School Musicalwith me and scratch my back.”
“I know it really is so funny,” acknowledged Hudgens, who played Gabriella Montez in the Disney film series.
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The couple got engaged in February, about two years after they started dating. Hudgens told PEOPLE last month that the engagement had surprised her, though she knew the moment would eventually come — she just didn’t know when.
“I was extremely surprised,“she says of Tucker’s proposal. “We had definitely talked about it, but I did not expect it to happen the way that it happened and the moment that it happened. It definitely caught me off guard and I was bawling my eyes out.”
Hudgens said the wedding was still in the planning stages, but she was knee-deep in it and already overwhelmed.
“It’s a big daunting thing — so much goes into it,” she says with a laugh. “LikeGwen Stefanisaid, this s— is bananas.”
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Hudgens first sparked dating rumors with Tucker in November 2020 when they were seen holding hands in Los Angeles. The pair met on a Zoom meditation group call, and Hudgens later revealed she made the first move.
“I get on the Zoom, and I’m like, ‘Who is that?'” she shared onThe Drew Barrymore Showin May 2021. “I found him, and we started talking.” They made their relationship Insta-official on Valentine’s Day that year.
She continued, “If I want something or someone, I’m going after them. I fully just slid into his DMs and was like, ‘Hey, it was nice to meet you.’ So I think there is no shame in making the first move.”
source: people.com
