Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and supermodel Miranda Kerr are rumored to get married this weekend: Here’s how he won her over in a year
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There may be wedding bells in the air for LA’s newest power couple.
After hints that supermodel Miranda Kerr would get married to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel in May, the New York Post’s Page Six reports that two will wed in a small ceremony of around 30 people at their LA home over Memorial Day weekend.
The Australian supermodel started dating the 26-year-old CEO nearly two years ago and a whirlwind romance followed, which lead to their engagement last year.
Here’s how the two powerful stars fell so quickly for each other:
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The power couple first met at a dinner for Louis Vuitton in Los Angeles and became friends. ‘We were really good friends for a long time before we started dating,’ Kerr told The Sydney Morning Herald.
In 2007, Kerr was the first Australian to become a Victoria’s Secret Angel and was among the world’s highest-paid models. Now she’s working on creative projects like jewelry lines and just launched a handbag collection in Asia.
The 33-year-old Kerr was once married to Orlando Bloom and had a son, Flynn. Spiegel had to wait at least six months to meet him, per Kerr and Bloom’s rules, but ‘things are going well,’ Kerr said. ‘We’re just a modern family now.’
Spiegel stays busy as the CEO and cofounder of Snapchat, the photo-messaging app. It’s been a busy year for Spiegel as he took his company, now known as Snap Inc. public in March. It’s now valued at nearly $27 billion.
Even though they stay busy with work, Kerr says Spiegel loves to come home and chill with the family. ‘He’s 25, but he acts like he’s 50. He’s not out partying,’ Kerr once said. ‘He goes to work in Venice [Beach, in LA]. He comes home. We don’t go out. We’d rather be at home and have dinner, go to bed early.’
In May, the couple went all in and purchased a 7,164-square-foot house for $12 million in the Brentwood neighborhood of LA. Things were already getting pretty serious — and they’re now rumored to be exchanging vows at the same mansion.
While their relationship is mostly private, the duo make some high-profile appearances like a dinner at the White House with President Barack Obama.
Mostly, though, the pair love hanging out together.
In July 2016, Kerr announced their engagement by using Bitmojis from Bitstrips — a company Snapchat had just bought for $100 million — to show that Spiegel had popped the question. ‘I said yes!!!’ Kerr said in her Instagram post.
Despite her use of Instagram, Kerr says she “cannot STAND Facebook” and has been “appalled” at all the features they’ve copied from Snapchat and her fiancé. “Can they not be innovative?” she said. “Do they have to steal all of my partner’s ideas?”
Snapchat hasn’t been daunted though. Spiegel took its parent company, Snap Inc., public in March. He’s now estimated to be worth $5.5 billion after the IPO.
Kerr was there to support him, sending Snaps with early Snapchat employees from the floor of the stock exchange.
Now, the two are rumored to finally be wed this weekend in a private ceremony at their home. Congrats to L.A.’s newest power couple!
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