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Jon Gosselin has a brand new girlfriend! The 46-year-old former actuality star debuted his relationship with Stephanie Lebo on August 1 and revealed they’ve been relationship for 2 years. Jon advised The Solar that he met Stephanie just a few months after he break up from his girlfriend of seven years, Colleen Conrad, in 2021.
“We met at a yard barbecue at a mutual pal Dean’s home,” Jon mentioned. “It was a hillbilly factor we let fireworks off, it was enjoyable. I had been single for just a few months after Colleen and I broke up,” he added.
Stephanie, 35, revealed that the couple began messaging one another after the social gathering earlier than Jon requested her out. After their first date, Stephanie needed to kiss Jon, however he made her wait, which made her fall in love with Jon much more. Jon confirmed that he requested Dean for permission to pursue Stephanie earlier than they turned official.
Since they began relationship, Jon and Stephanie have bonded over having “a lot in frequent” with their previous relationships, Stephanie mentioned. She additionally confirmed that she wasn’t bothered by Jon’s historical past together with his ex-wife Kate Gosselin. “I knew about his previous and every part though I used to be by no means Crew Jon or Crew Kate as a result of I simply didn’t know sufficient or watch the present that a lot,” Stephanie defined. “It didn’t section me or something and I by no means handled him any completely different.”
The previous Jon and Kate Plus 8 star gushed over his new romance and mentioned it’s “straightforward” being with Stephanie. “I really feel it’s taken 19 years to search out Steph. All of the trials and tribulations, the heartbreak, the combating, and worrying about who’s going to speak about me to the press, then lastly I meet Steph,” he mentioned. “My earlier relationships would all go properly at first however then they’d transfer to miscommunications and secrets and techniques. Belief has all the time been a difficulty, however not this time.”
That is Jon’s first public relationship since his break up from Colleen after seven years of relationship. Earlier than that, Jon was infamously married to Kate, 48, with whom he shares his eight youngsters. Jon is estranged from six of his youngsters and solely has relationships with son Collin and daughter Hannah. The 19-year-olds spoke out in opposition to their mother in a brand new Vice TV documentary, the place Collin accused Kate of alleged abuse when he was youthful. In response, Kate claimed that Collin is “troubled” and in want of psychiatric assist, which Jon denied.
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