Top chef Wout Bru gets engaged to girlfriend Natassia: “I thought it was a joke” | Instagram HLN

e.gWout Bru (54) and his 22-year-younger girlfriend Natassia Van Kerkvoorde went to Champagne this week to celebrate her birthday, and now have an extra reason to enjoy themselves. The couple got engaged during their trip. Wout opted for pure romance and asked the question from a boat in a beautiful lake, complete with a nice glass of wine.

Wout and Natassia have been together for almost seven years and also have two children. In 2020, they welcomed their first daughter, Aimée, and their second girl Beau was born at the end of 2022. Natassia is also a great mother, Bru – who is regularly away from home – previously said. “While I am busy in Durbuy, she is on her own in Antwerp four or five days a week, with a baby and a toddler. Her role should not be underestimated,” he said.

Natassia had anything but seen the proposal coming, she says. At the end of last week, her Instagram account was hacked, which she attaches great importance to her career as a model. After a lot of stress, she has now created a new account, but the loss of her precious memories was also difficult for Natassia. The trip to France that she had planned with Wout to celebrate her 32nd birthday came at just the right time.


When he suddenly produced a ring on a boat, the model couldn’t believe her eyes. “I really thought it was a joke. He wasn’t on one knee so I thought he didn’t mean it, but of course that was just because the boat wasn’t stable enough,” she laughs. When Natassia started to realize that it was a real proposal, she burst into tears. “All the emotions of the past week came to the surface at that moment. After all that stress, this made me so happy.”

This will be Bru’s second marriage. He and his ex-wife Suzy Jacques ran his business Maison Bru in French Provence for many years. However, in 2014 there was a break. The cook also gave birth to two children with Suzy more than twenty years ago: Lou and Boris.

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