Katie Couric‘s daughter is engaged — and she’s wearing a very special piece of jewelry to celebrate.
Couric, 62, announced her 27-year-old daughter Ellie Monahan’s engagement to boyfriend Mark on Instagram Sunday.
“OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG,” she gushed alongside a photo of the future husband and wife. “Ellie and Mark are engaged!”
The journalist also revealed that Mark proposed with the engagement ring Couric received from her late husbandJay Monahan.
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Couric and Monahan married in 1989 and had two daughters, Ellie and Caroline (now 22). But in 1998, Monahandied of colon cancerat age 42.
“It’s also, I think, most profoundly given me a higher sense of purpose that I’m in a position to take this unimaginable pain and loss and try to do something positive with it,” she added.
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Couric went on tomarry banker John Molneron June 21, 2014 at her private home in the Hamptons.
“It took me a long time [to marry again], because I loved being married and Ilove being married now,” Couric told Cagle. “And I’m not a solitary person. I like company. And John is so funny. He’s just got this incredibly dry and wry sense of humor, and he doesn’t take himself too seriously. And he’s just fun to be around.”
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“Sometimes we get angry at each other. Sometimes I feel like he can be tough and I’m sure he thinks I’m insane,” she continued. “But for the most part, he’s really good company, you know? And I can totally be myself with him, sometimes maybe to a fault.”
source: people.com
