Is Mary-Kate Olsen engaged to Nate Lowman?

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Is Mary-Kate Olsen engaged to her longtime boyfriend Nate Lowman? Of course, if you ask Star Magazine. And the proposal was just as cheesy and cliché as only a Star writer can come up with. Truffles. Rings. Classic dialogue. Including such memorable romantic proposal lines as, “Are you sure you want to do this?”

Mary-Kate Olsen and her artist beau, Nate Lowman, have been talking marriage for a while. Yet when he actually popped the question during the couple’s early October visit to Paris, the moment was sweeter than she could have imagined – and Star has all the details!

The setting was the restaurant at the Hotel Le Bristol, where the two were enjoying a four-course gourmet dinner. “At the end of the meal, Nate gave her a truffle box – she loves truffles, so she went to try one right away,” says a pal. “But inside, she found a little jewelry box instead. When she opened it, there was a beautiful diamond engagement ring!”

Mary-Kate’s reaction? “Nate’s this grungy, cool artist type, so she was shocked, but in a good way, by what was happening. Then he smiled and asked her to marry him and added, ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ Mary-Kate said, ‘You know I want to do this!'”

After excitedly telling her best pals and sister Ashley – “She thinks Nate’s perfect for Mary-Kate,” says the friend – the megabcks babe, 23, has leapt into planning the wedding. “Their entire time in Paris was so romantic for both of them, and Mary-Kate was absolutely swept off her feet by Nate’s proposal. She’s so thrilled she can barely keep it quiet!”

[From Star, Nov. 2nd 2009, print ed.]

So basically Nate said, “Will you marry me?” then followed it up with “Are you sure you want to do this?” How romantic. Isn’t that what you say when you’re getting married for the wrong reasons? Like to save the relationship or because she’s knocked up? I’m not saying she is, I’m just saying that’s about the most unromantic question I can think of. Obviously I don’t believe for a second that Star got a perfectly-retold version of the story with completely accurate quotes. What I love is that their writer obviously filled it in with the way she thought it would go. Which involves wooing of the type most of us fantasized about around the age of eleven.

The print edition of the National Enquirer has an official “there’s no truth to any of this” denial from Mary-Kate’s rep. However the Enquirer (who I’m much more likely to believe than Star any day) also has a lengthy article about the prenup that’s supposedly being hammered out by Mary-Kate’s lawyers. They don’t even sensationalize it – they essentially say Nate understands that Mary-Kate has a $900 million fortune to protect, and he’ll sign a reasonably prenup. The only drama comes in from his friends supposedly telling him to hold out for a lot of money in case of divorce, their reasoning being “What’s $50 million to someone worth $900 million?” If there’s any truth to that, then Nate’s friends are morons. Speaking of which, if you want to have a look at some of Nate’s recent artwork, you can see pictures from the Maccarone Gallery in New York City here.

I doubt they’re actually engaged because Star’s story was clearly written by a fifth grader who’s read one too many Judy Blume novels. But I bet they’re working their way there, and will probably be engaged by the end of this year. Oh and I really don’t buy that Mary-Kate eats truffles. That’s the biggest tip-off, right there.

Here’s Nate and Mary-Kate at Paris Fashion Week on October 5th. Images thanks to WENN.com .

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22 Responses to “Is Mary-Kate Olsen engaged to Nate Lowman?”

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  1. Harper says:

    Header pic makes him look alarmingly like Johnny Depp in “Benny & Joon!”

  2. Camille says:

    @Harper- I thought that too!

  3. TwinkleToes says:

    I love that the twins got nose jobs together at the same time. Awww. Did this twin finally retire those hand painted $1K colored contact lenses that make the iris appear so much larger? Really, nobody has eyes like that but most people don’t know about the iris enlarging contact lens.

  4. Firestarter says:

    I think he looks like David Silver.

  5. WTF?!? says:

    LOL, TwinkleToes. The Contact Lens Conspiracy! Dumbest conspiracy theory ever.

  6. TwinkleToes says:

    WTF, I posted on the cheek implant scene in Clooney’s post. Do I need to post the hand painted contact lens post here, also? Well, do I? Btw, twins made cover of tabloid with their nose jobs. Gonna look up the link for you, hon.

  7. NIKKI says:

    I agree Harper. I was going to say he looks like a bad version of Depp.

  8. TwinkleToes says:

    Jeepers, CREEPERS, where’d you buy those eyes?

    May I?

    http://sickitten.com/2009/07/14/what-celebrities-wear-colored-contact-lenses.aspx

  9. bella mama says:

    i thought the same thing harper!

  10. tooey says:

    For one horrified moment I thought Johnny Depp had run off with a little pocket troll…

  11. Sumodo says:

    Awww. She actually ate food. Engagement? Who cares.

  12. WTF?!? says:

    LOL @ TwinkleToes. Desperate to be right much?
    Those are not ‘iris-increasing’ contacts, they’re coloured lenses, been around for decades and are worn by hundreds of thousands of non-celebs as well, for a lot less than $1,000 a pair. And I don’t see the Olsen twins listed on that page, anyway.

  13. Meghan says:

    I thought he looks like a cross between Johnny Depp and the dorky guy from the Babysitters’s Club Movie who had a crush on Dawn.

    Why yes, that movie was on last weekend and I watched it. And it did NOT help me on my Physiological Psych test to be going “the brain, the brain, the center of the chain…”

  14. Lita says:

    So I wasn’t the only one that went “wow, poor man’s Johnny Depp!”

    Judy Blume was great when I was a tween. @Meghan – you would have been brain-chanting “I must, I must, I must increase my bust!”. ;o)

  15. coucou says:

    Too young to look like Depp, I thought it was Jack White from the White Stripes. Her lips look nice, wonder if that’s the Keira implant?

  16. Gertie says:

    LOL -his “artwork” is super funny! Mary Kate had BETTER get a prenup! Hmmm I think I’ll root through the dumpster today,make a random pile of what I find & see if I can be displayed at that gallery….

  17. Sumodo says:

    Yes, I checked out his artwork, too, and I wondered, “How much money did his parents pay for his education at some fancy art school, because they threw their money away.” I checked, he graduated NYU. That’s more than M-K has ever done.

  18. I don’t think she looks very good here (maybe just an unflattering picture).

    But really, what does she do anymore? acting? modeling? Not sure why we should be interested in her.

  19. Aprill says:

    I think Marriage will make her stable.
    Happy for her.

  20. Nebraska says:

    I love the dudes hat and he totally does look like Jack White!

  21. Jo 'Mama' Besser says:

    Grungy, cool?

    SCREEEEEEECH!!

    Are we ripping ‘fifteen years ago’ off, or just loathe to embrace the cleansing touch of soap? It doesn’t matter.

    Embrace showers. And standing around in Seattle without an umbrella doesn’t count.

  22. here says:

    Yeah i’ve heard about this allot. Nates dad runs my school. She came up to visit during the summer, the small town folk’ were quite excited!