Photo: Katie Thurston/InstagramKatie Thurston is showing love for her boyfriend on his 28th birthday.On Wednesday, the formerBachelorettestar shared a photo of her cuddling with John Hersey onInstagramin honor of his big day. “Cheers to you handsome🥂 28 looks good on you already 😘 🤍,” she captioned the photo.“Happy birthday! 🐕 🐈⬛ 👩🏻❤️👨🏻 Celebrating you is easy,” Thurston added.The couple — who first met on Thurston’s season ofThe Bachelorette— confirmed their relationship one month after she and her final rose recipient Blake Moynes ended their engagement.Earlier this month, Thurston and Herseyopened upin a video called “12 Days of Oops” about the controversy surrounding their relationship and the criticism over how quickly they went Instagram official afterher breakupwith Moynes.“I wanted to really show that to me John is my world. John is handsome. John is romantic. John is everything and I wanted to make a really big, grand gesture to show that,” Thurston said.Paul Archuleta/GettyNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free weekly newsletterto get the biggest news of the week delivered to your inbox every Friday.“Was there a lot of hate that came with that? Yeah… it’s a hard thing to navigate.” she continued, “People are always like, ‘Well, you should’ve told Blake…’ We talked about giving Blake a heads up.“Moynesbroke his silenceabout his former fiancé’s new relationship in November.“You start to think about timelines. I know they spent a lot of time together and stuff, but there’s just no way, I didn’t have an inkling,” Moynes said on an episode of theTalking It Out with Bachelor Nationpodcast. “I’m a very secure guy, a confident guy, and I give my trust out 100 percent, especially to the person I should be trusting the most.“Moynes added: “I really don’t think there was any physical cheating there, but there’s clearly emotional for it to transition as quickly as it did.”
Photo: Katie Thurston/Instagram

Katie Thurston is showing love for her boyfriend on his 28th birthday.On Wednesday, the formerBachelorettestar shared a photo of her cuddling with John Hersey onInstagramin honor of his big day. “Cheers to you handsome🥂 28 looks good on you already 😘 🤍,” she captioned the photo.“Happy birthday! 🐕 🐈⬛ 👩🏻❤️👨🏻 Celebrating you is easy,” Thurston added.The couple — who first met on Thurston’s season ofThe Bachelorette— confirmed their relationship one month after she and her final rose recipient Blake Moynes ended their engagement.Earlier this month, Thurston and Herseyopened upin a video called “12 Days of Oops” about the controversy surrounding their relationship and the criticism over how quickly they went Instagram official afterher breakupwith Moynes.“I wanted to really show that to me John is my world. John is handsome. John is romantic. John is everything and I wanted to make a really big, grand gesture to show that,” Thurston said.Paul Archuleta/GettyNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free weekly newsletterto get the biggest news of the week delivered to your inbox every Friday.“Was there a lot of hate that came with that? Yeah… it’s a hard thing to navigate.” she continued, “People are always like, ‘Well, you should’ve told Blake…’ We talked about giving Blake a heads up.“Moynesbroke his silenceabout his former fiancé’s new relationship in November.“You start to think about timelines. I know they spent a lot of time together and stuff, but there’s just no way, I didn’t have an inkling,” Moynes said on an episode of theTalking It Out with Bachelor Nationpodcast. “I’m a very secure guy, a confident guy, and I give my trust out 100 percent, especially to the person I should be trusting the most.“Moynes added: “I really don’t think there was any physical cheating there, but there’s clearly emotional for it to transition as quickly as it did.”
Katie Thurston is showing love for her boyfriend on his 28th birthday.
On Wednesday, the formerBachelorettestar shared a photo of her cuddling with John Hersey onInstagramin honor of his big day. “Cheers to you handsome🥂 28 looks good on you already 😘 🤍,” she captioned the photo.
“Happy birthday! 🐕 🐈⬛ 👩🏻❤️👨🏻 Celebrating you is easy,” Thurston added.
The couple — who first met on Thurston’s season ofThe Bachelorette— confirmed their relationship one month after she and her final rose recipient Blake Moynes ended their engagement.
Earlier this month, Thurston and Herseyopened upin a video called “12 Days of Oops” about the controversy surrounding their relationship and the criticism over how quickly they went Instagram official afterher breakupwith Moynes.
“I wanted to really show that to me John is my world. John is handsome. John is romantic. John is everything and I wanted to make a really big, grand gesture to show that,” Thurston said.
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“Was there a lot of hate that came with that? Yeah… it’s a hard thing to navigate.” she continued, “People are always like, ‘Well, you should’ve told Blake…’ We talked about giving Blake a heads up.”
Moynesbroke his silenceabout his former fiancé’s new relationship in November.
“You start to think about timelines. I know they spent a lot of time together and stuff, but there’s just no way, I didn’t have an inkling,” Moynes said on an episode of theTalking It Out with Bachelor Nationpodcast. “I’m a very secure guy, a confident guy, and I give my trust out 100 percent, especially to the person I should be trusting the most.”
Moynes added: “I really don’t think there was any physical cheating there, but there’s clearly emotional for it to transition as quickly as it did.”
source: people.com