Last month, we reported that 18 year-old Bella Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame was engaged to be married. Now, she’s firing back at critics who are saying that she is too young to walk down the aisle.
In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Bella addressed the haters who have called her out for getting engaged to Jacob Mayo after dating him for just six months.
“First off, we’ve been friends for a long time,” Bella said. “I think a lot of people want to say, like, ‘Oh my gosh, they’ve only been dating for six months.’ But we have known each other for so long. And since quarantine is like dog years, we’ve been in quarantine the whole time we’ve been dating and we’re together all the time.”
“We started dating because he came home from college to be here for quarantine, and that’s been a big factor,” she added. “I don’t know if normally I would have gotten engaged to someone after six months, if we would have just met and started dating, you know? But on top of that, in the south so many people get married so young. Like, my parents got married at 18, my brother got married at 18, my grandparents married at 18. It’s very common around here so it didn’t really shock me too much about my age.”
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Putting aside her haters, Bella said that she is overjoyed to be engaged to Jacob and that she can’t wait to spend the rest of her life with him. She explained that while she had “no clue” about the ring he picked out — “it definitely was a surprise!” — she did “have an idea” that a proposal was happening.
“I kind of saw it coming. I knew it was coming at some time soon, but I didn’t know exactly when,” she admitted. “He asked both my parents together [for my hand in marriage]. Jacob didn’t tell me that he asked them at all, he was keeping it such secret.”
“The next day, my mom was like, ‘So did Jacob talk to you about our talk?’ And I was like, ‘No,'” Bella continued. “My mom thought that Jacob must have told me, so she ended up spilling the beans to me. I ended up finding out that way.”
She also said that she and Jacob had done a “little bit” of wedding planning so far, but not much.
“I’m kind of living in the moment right now until Christmas I guess,” Bella explained. “Kind of been saying, like, after Christmas I’ll really get on it. But we’ve been doing a little bit of planning. Just like ideas and stuff like that, but nothing set in stone yet.”
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