In December 2009, Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell put a ring on it. “Yes, they are engaged. Over the holidays,” a rep for the “Bad Moms” star confirmed to People at the time. However, it was not until the 2010 Grammys that the pair confirmed their engagement with Bell showing off her three-carat diamond engagement ring on the red carpet.
Nine years later she revealed to People that despite their longtime relationship, she was shocked by Shepard’s proposal — because he initially did not believe in marriage. “I had surrendered, like, ‘OK, well, I’m never going to get any sort of traditional marriage out of this, and that’s OK because I trust him,'” she explained. “I really, really trusted him and believed that we were going to go the long haul.” Still, Shepard knew how much getting married would mean to Bell and admitted to agreeing to marriage as a sign of his love for the “Bad Moms” star.
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However, as a way of standing with their gay friends, the pair made the decision to hold off their wedding until same-sex marriage was legalized. And so in June 2013 when it was announced that the same-sex bill had been passed, Bell dramatically took to Twitter (via Brides) to submit her own proposal, writing, “[Dax Shepard] will you marry me?” The post was accompanied by hashtags in support of marriage equality. Before getting married though, Bell and Shepard made one more addition to their family.
