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Janet Mock Gets Engaged To Boyfriend Aaron Tredwell, Launches New MSNBC Show

On Friday, Janet Mock debuted as the host of MSNBC's online show So POPular. But the entertainment reporter/transactivist had some bigger news for fans on social media: She and boyfriend Aaron Tredwell got engaged.

Mock flashed the bling on Instagram on Sunday, declaring “I said YES.”

I said YES.

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The two met on the dance floor in 2009 at a bar in Manhattan, she wrote in XOJane. “He's a fantasy come true, and I want him to want me,” she recalled.

We're real together, and Aaron and the friendship and love affair that we've built is my foundation. A platform that has fortified my own sense of self, and has, in the nearly three years since we've met on that Lower East Side dance floor, given me the strength to step out of my shadow and come forward as a trans woman, lending my story as one of many narratives on what it means to be a young woman who happened to be born a boy.

Aaron is better than my tweenage fantasies, better than the dreams I had of some boybander singing to me in a tree, better than anything I could've written for my protagonists.

He's better because he's real, because he exists, because he wants more than just the idea of me. He wants me.

In addition to hosting So POPular, Mock has penned a best-selling memoir, Redefining Realness. No date has been announced for her and Tredwell's wedding.

Watch the premiere episode of So POPular below

h/t: The Advocate

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