Jake Paul and girlfriend Jutta Leerdam are engaged.
Paul, 28, announced the news via Instagram on Saturday, March 22, in a joint post with Leerdam. “We’re engaged💍🕊️🤍we can’t wait to spend forever together🥹,” he wrote alongside photos from the special moment. Paul and Leerdam, an Olympic Dutch speed skater, were both dressed in white and surrounded by white flowers and candles when he got down on one knee.
Among the sweet pics was a close up of the ring, as well as a snap of Leerdam jumping in excitement. Leerdam shared the photo via her Instagram on Saturday, writing, “Find someone who makes you jump for joy.” She added, “On heels hahahaha.”
Per Olympics.com, the couple met via Instagram in 2022, but finally went public with their relationship in April 2023. “Jake sent me a DM on Instagram and asked if I wanted to be on his podcast,” Leerdam, who made her 2022 Olympic debut in Beijing, said in the documentary Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson. “And I was like, ‘Okay, let’s do it. Can be good, can be nice.’”
She added, “I never, ever expected to date him, like never. Of course, I didn’t know a lot about him. I could only scroll on his Instagram and form an opinion like the whole world does. But he is the complete opposite.”
Last week, Paul praised Leerdamn via Instagram after she competed in the 2025 World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships on March 15.
“The hardest worker and the most gorgeous,” he wrote. “You inspire me babe. Isn’t ironic how the person who is the most important athlete to a sport is the one that they try to tear down the most. Can’t relate because we don’t fly at y’all’s altitude🤴🏼👸🏼I hope love runs the universe one day💞.”
The couple’s engagement comes after Floyd Mayweather responded to the former Youtuber-turned-boxer’s claim that he’s dodging their fight.
“We offered Jake Paul the fight probably 10 or 20 times and he turned us down,” said Mayweather, 48, who spoke exclusively to Us Weekly on March 12. “So that’s bulls—.”
In response to claims from Paul that Mayweather and his team wanted the social media star to cut his weight down to 160, something Paul called “physically impossible,” Mayweather had a solution for that.
“Well, we can do an exhibition,” he said to Us. “We know we can’t do a real fight because it’s not going to be sanctioned because of the weight difference. But we could do an exhibition. That’s easy work, super easy.”
However, at the time, Mayweather gave credit to Paul and his brother, fellow social media star Logan Paul, telling Us, “One thing about Jake Paul and Logan Paul, we can’t knock their hustle. I take my hat off. I like how they hustle.”
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