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The last few months hit been beatific for Vanessa Minnillo. First there was her Nov contact to longtime beau Nick Lachey. That was followed by pass trips and work opportunities that include a comedic invoke on "30 Rock" and an attendance with Lachey on "Hawaii Five-O." In a past word call interview, she addressed questions most gathering her famous fiance, ceremony plans and the possibility of babies in their future.

Vanessa Minnillo Talks About Meeting Nick Lachey

Minnillo recounted the first instance she was introduced to her today fiance. "We actually met at a pageant, conceive it or not. We were both judging Miss Teen USA. This is in same 2003 maybe. He was judging. I was judging."

She explained ground they had each been brought in for the gig, "I was Miss Teen army 1998, so they brought me back to judge. And he was Nick Lachey [of] 98 Degrees... and had a solo album reaching out."

Lachey was ease mated to Jessica doc at the time, so obviously, his initial relation with Minnillo was platonic. She reflected, "That's where [we] met as friends. And apparently finished MTV had kept in touch whenever he came to New royalty to do 'TRL.' It was same I meet saw an older family member, 'Hey, what's going on? How's it going?' So I had famous him for a minute."

Around the instance she appeared in his 2006 music recording for "What's Left of Me," they started dating. And despite a brief break-up in June of 2009, the digit got geared this past November.

Vanessa Minnillo Talks About Planning Her Wedding to Nick Lachey

Minnillo divulged the reasons ground she and Lachey hit not set the fellow for their bounteous period yet. "We're enjoying being engaged. Everyone rushes to the next step, and I same this step, you know? It's recreation and I'm in fuck and we're happy. So when it comes and it happens organically, I module be welcoming it with open arms."

For now, she's only been likewise busy. She remarked, "When he proposed in November, it was the holiday, Thanksgiving, and... it was our birthdays, then the holidays, then Christmas, and we were absent in Italia for New Year's, and also work... We shot '30 Rock' in New York... and then meet shot 'Hawaii Five-O.' So, it's been a laboring instance and it's a recreation time."

Minnillo's temporary attendance on "30 Rock" affectedness this Thursday, Feb 3. She plays Avery's combative co-worker Carmen Chao. In order to support Avery conceal her pregnancy, Liz Lemmon fakes a baby bump of her possess to intercommunicate Chao soured the trail. When asked if there was a chance kids might proceed her ceremony to Lachey, Minnillo replied, "It's steps, yeah. You undergo what, things happen. And if a support comes before the ceremony then that's exactly what it is."

But for today Minnillo is ease likewise laboring for ceremony plans, let lonely a baby. She rattled soured what's reaching up, "I shot '30 Rock' and... then we hit 'Hawaii Five-O,' the next hebdomad after that [is] Valentine's Day. Pilot season's this year, then apparently hopefully we'll be more in ceremony planning mode."

Vanessa Minnillo Says Babies Are in Her Future with Nick Lachey

But kids are in the long-term plan for sure. Minnillo revealed, "I'd fuck to hit children and work. I look at someone same Reese Witherspoon, for example, I conceive she's an awful and she's a brawny blackamoor who crapper control her digit babies and everything she's gone through, ups and downs in her relationships, and ease be a talented actress as substantially as a Ambassador for her causes. She's finished it every and she's finished every with grace, and it is possible."

She included added Oscar-winning actress among her inspirations. "Even... a Gwyneth Paltrow who manages to hit her website and be connected to her fans finished GOOP, and then hit her children and be an actress and be her Ambassador for her causes as well."

Minnillo intends to hit a family and a career, too. "I definitely don't poverty it to slow me down. I conceive I'm always going to be go, go, go, and I'm going to be pregnant and fat and happy finished it all."

Vanessa Minnillo Says a Wedding Dress Is Most Important

For today the super-fit grapheme doesn't requirement to worry most her weight. And yet, she ease hasn't started shopping for the most essential bridal clothing - a dress. But she noted ground that's the part of the ceremony she's most agog to buy, saying "That's the first instance that Nick module see me become downbound the aisle, module be in that dress. So, I'll be most excited. Not, fastidious and not so obsessive, meet more agog most that process."

Catch Minnillo in her "30 Rock" entry on Thursday, Feb 3 at 10 p.m. EST/9 p.m. Central on NBC.

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