Brooke Burkeis preparing to walk down the aisle again — something she admittedly didn’t see coming.
“It was a big year, you know … dealing withmy family loss and my brother, and then the joy and the celebration of what Scott and I are going through — it’s been a lot,” said Burke, whose brother Tommydiedin July, one day after his 44th birthday.
“I’m just entering into the final season of this year trying to be positive, trying to set great goals for myself, for my family … and leaning into and celebrating love with an open heart and acceptance,” she continued. “And you know, I never expected this to happen. I really didn’t. I would have said never, never, never again — and then someone comes along and changes your life. I’m just trying to live that way and I’m trying to raise my children that way.”
PEOPLE broke the news ofBurke’s engagementlast month, after the star celebrated her milestone 50th birthday with her husband-to-be alongside friends and family.
Burke and the commercial real estate developer, 48,started datingin August 2019 andmade their red carpet debutthat November.
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“It is awesome because he is a great father,” Burke told reporters at the time. “He has two children and that is one of the things that I love most about him. He is really kind and responsible and devoted, so our kids are getting to know each other.”
“It’s a big deal, but it is really loving and kind, and I am really happy,” she continued. “He is a sweetheart, a really sweet guy. Yesterday I used the ‘B’ word. I was like, ‘Whoa! Boyfriend?! Babe, do you want to be my boyfriend?!’ I had to change his name in my contacts to ‘Boyfriend.'”
TheDancing with the Starsalum shares daughters Neriah, 21, and Sierra, 19, with ex-husbandGarth Fisher, to whom she was married from 2001 to 2005, as well as daughter Heaven Rain, 14, and son Shaya Braven, 13, withDavid Charvet, whom she married in 2011. Shefiled for divorcefrom Charvet in 2018; the proceedings werefinalizedin March 2020.
source: people.com
