Drew Afualo Is Engaged to Pili Tanuvasa: ‘I Cried So Hard and for an Hour Straight’

Mar. 15, 2025

Drew Afualo and Pili Tanuvasa.Photo:Drew Afualo/Instagram

Drew Afualo/Instagram

Drew AfualoandPili Tanuvasaare engaged!

The Comments Sectionpodcast host, 28, shared her major life milestone onInstagramandTikTokon Monday, Sept. 2. Her longtime partner, a fitness and lifestyle coach, also shared the news on social media, with the engagement ring featured prominently throughout their photos.

“Ima marry tf out of you big dawg,@ptanuvasa🧡,” the author ofLoud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve, captioned her Instagram carousel. “I cried so hard & for an hour straight yall im so deeply in love & happy it’s actually insane BYE)#SPEECHLESSSTAGRAM.”

Drew Afualo.Drew Afualo/Instagram

In the first two photos of her post, the couple had their eyes closed while they embraced as Afualo proudly showed off her engagement ring and a bouquet of roses. She knelt on a bed that was decorated with red rose petals, standing next to Tanuvasa.

Afualo posed solo in one photo in the set, putting her hand in front of her forehead to show off a cushion-cut diamond ring while holding the bouquet.

She also included a photo of the ring set against a background of the romantically decorated bed, in which rose petals were arranged in the shape of a heart.

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“Get into it, mama,” she said, laughing and flashing her ring at the camera. “Who needs to stand up?”

“Also, I’ve been saying this for f—— years. But there is no f—— timeline on dating,” she added. “My man knew he was gonna marry me within the first month of dating me. But neither of us wanted to get married until we were ready.”

Drew Afualo shows off her engagement ring on Sept. 2, 2024.Drew Afualo/Instagram

Afualo continued: “But even past that. Thinking that a ring is gonna, one, make a man commit to you and two, make a relationship worth having is not only ignorant but misogynistic.”

She asked the commenter: “So, again I ask, which one of us needs to stand the f— up?”

Afualo shared that Tanuvasa bought her a ring for her birthday in 2023 and said it would be for her “wedding stack.”

She added that she didn’t pick out the diamond or pay for it because he did.

In his post about the engagement onInstagram, Tanuvasa wrote: “From saying no to going to prom w/ me 13 years ago to now, jokes on you love lmaooooo ❤️.”

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