HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Maria Bello is headed for the altar.
The 41-year-old actress announced that she is now engaged to her boyfriend, Bryn Mooser, in her hometown newspaper, The Norristown Times Herald in Pennsylvania.
They "fell in love over a sheer passion of politics, Africa and crypto-zoology," the announcement said of Bello and her 28-year-old beau, who is a musician, artist and part-time waiter.
"He's beautiful inside and out — a great human being," Bello revealed in an interview with Page Six Magazine. "He has more character in his little finger than any man I've ever met."
Bello met her soon-to-be husband while he was working at a restaurant near her home. They began dating a year-and-a-half ago after the actress worked up the courage to put the moves on.
"I had a couple of drinks, so I felt brave," she explained. "I walked up and said, 'Can you take this cake and put a candle in it? And by the way, do you have a girlfriend?' From that night on, we’ve been together."
Bello, who has a 7-year-old son, Jackson Blue, with her ex-boyfriend Dan McDermott, admitted to Page Six that she's always been apprehensive about walking down the aisle.
"I was always anti-marriage," confessed Bello, who stars in "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor," which opens on Friday. "I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone — of having a partner in life."
The couple has yet to set a wedding date.
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