Natalie Joy and Nick Viall.

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Nick Viall’s fiancéeNatalie Joyappears to approve of his new eagle tattoo.

“Lemme take that eagle for a test ride 👀,” Viall’s partner, 24, playfully wrote of the large bird tattoo on the side of Viall’s right torso.

“Cool vulture tat!!! 🔥,” actorJustin Longweighed in, whileSports Illustratedco-host Lindsay McCormick Smith appeared to have some more intel on the specific type of bird: “That’s an Auburn War Eagle 🙌 🦅.”

Viall proposed to Joy, a model and surgical technologist, in January. TheDon’t Text Your Ex Happy Birthdayauthor presented Joy with a custom engagement ring fromBrilliant Earth, a customized version of theLuxe Vivianain 18K yellow gold set with a 5-carat elongated cushion cut.

“For the rest of my life, it’s you,” Viallcaptioned a photo series on their engagement day.

The pair werefirst linkedin 2020, but they didn’t start sharing their relationship publicly until 2021. At the time, a source told PEOPLE that “she’s great for him.

Addressing the relationship news for the first time on his podcast, Viall said in February 2021: “It’s fun. It’s great. I’m super happy.”

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The Los Angeles-based pair eventually decided to make things official after spending time together in person for a while.

“We kind of kept hanging out, and she finally got a point where she was like, ‘I want to date,’ and I was kind of like, ‘I don’t know,'” he continued onThe Viall Files. “She just was like, ‘OK, this is what I want. It’s fine, no big deal, but I’m gonna go do my thing,’ and she did, and I was like, ‘What?!’ … She went and showed me exactly what I’d be missing.”

source: people.com