*Supermodel Beverly Johnson has revealed that she is engaged at age 67.
Johnson opened up about her boo thang Brian Maillian in a new interview with PEOPLE, saying: “This is the first time I’ve dated someone so close to my age! We know the same songs and we’ve lived through a lot of the same things.”
She also said of the 70-year-old financier, “As I was breaking boundaries in the fashion industry, he was doing the same on Wall Street.”
Johnson tells the publication, “just finding the love of my life at this point in my life has been amazing.”
She said the engagement occurred while they were attending an event in Palm Springs with family.
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@people magazine thank you for announcing my love Brian & my engagement to be married !!!!?♥️ please read about how It happened ..!!! pic.twitter.com/1Be0g6ZgJr
— Beverly Johnson (@BeverlyJohnson1) July 15, 2020
“My older sister Sheilah was there and she said to Brian, ‘I didn’t hear you give my sister an answer when she asked you to marry her,'” Johnson recalls. “And he said, ‘I have answered her. I have asked her to marry me. And she said, No. Besides that — I don’t have a ring.'”
The fashion icon says, “Brian’s 88-year-old mother took off her wedding ring and passed it down the table till it got to Brian and he got down on one knee. I was sobbing uncontrollably and he said ‘Will you marry me?’ and I said yes!”
Maillian put the ring on her finger and her soon-to-be mother-in-law told her: “You can keep it on until the rest of the day!”
When the couple later went shopping for an official engagement ring, Johnson told him, “I said ‘Brian, I don’t know how to say this but I don’t want a diamond ring, let’s buy a house instead.'”
And that exactly what they did.
They currently live together in Rancho Mirage, California.
Johnson was previously married to real estate agent Billy Potter and music producer Danny Sims, father of their daughter Anansa.
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