Jodie Kidd is 'on cloud nine' after revealing she is to marry her ex-soldier boyfriend David Blakeley.
The couple, who first met in November, got engaged in secret four months ago on a romantic trip through picturesque Rajasthan in India.
The former Strictly Come Dancing contestant, who has a two-year-old son Indio from her former relationship with Argentinian polo player Andrea Vianini, tells this week's Hello!: 'It's absolutely brilliant. We are totally chuffed and on cloud nine.'
'On cloud nine': Model Jodie Kidd and her ex-soldier boyfriend David Blakeley tell Hello! magazine they are elated as they plan to marry
Best-selling author David, 34, who left the army in 2006 and wrote an account of his time in the special forces, proposed on the shores of a lake in Rajasthan and told Hello! he was 'overjoyed'.
He said: 'I've never felt like this before. I knew it was different from the moment I met Jodie.'
Jodie, 35, split from her long-term partner and father of her child last summer revealing the relationship had 'fizzled out' and they had found themselves spending lengthy spells apart.
Happy couple: Pictured last month in Switzerland, Jodie and David, who is a model himself, said their romance took them by surprise
Her new romance with David blossomed swiftly and it was so serious Jodie moved in with him weeks later prompting friends to speculate he could be the one.
'It was a heart-breaking decision to split with Andrea, but the right one,' Jodie had said of her split with Andrea.
'David and I got on from the start and things have moved quickly. We are in love and very happy. He is an amazing man.'
Exciting news: The couple tell this week's Hello! magazine they are engaged and reveal a romantic trip to India is where the ex soldier popped the question
In another recent interview with Hello! magazine, she told how she knew very quickly that David was the one.
Having returned from a holiday at her family home in Barbados last month, she said: 'It's been absolutely brilliant,' she said. 'We're very much in tune and share many of the same interests, which is lovely.'
Jodie, who is something of an action woman, says she has more than met her match in David, who spent three years as second in command of one of the Army's smallest and most secretive elite units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon.
His 2012 book, Pathfinder: A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines, described how he and his eight men were abandoned behind enemy lines in Iraq and fought their way back to safety despite repeated ambushes.
The pair met over lunch after being introduced by Jodie's cousin.
Jodie was previously married to internet entrepr! eneur Aidan Butler.
She said she was struck by how 'super nice, super down to earth and cool' David was when they met at the lunch.
'I didn't expect anything but we certainly hit it off very quickly,' she said.
David has said: 'I absolutely feel it is something extremely special and unique and irreplaceable with Jodie.'
The full interview is in the new edition of Hello! magazine, on sale now.
Model looks: Jodie at the Castrol Edge Titanium Strong Blackout launch, Geneva, last month
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