Winnie Harlow, 30, hit the “Call Her Daddy” podcast on March 5, 2025, to give a play-by-play about how her engagement to Milwaukee Bucks power forward Kyle Kuzma went down.
Host Alex Cooper greeted the former America’s Next Top Model contestant, who placed 6th in the show’s 21st cycle, with, “I’m blinded by your hand! Congratulations!” Vogue reported the ring is 8.5-carats.
Harlow and Kuzma, 29, announced their engagement in a joint February 18 Instagram post that received over a million likes.
Winnie Harlow Said Shock Proposal Almost Ended In Disaster
Harlow recounted how Kuzma swept her away on a special trip to make his big move, and said he successfully managed to catch her by surprise.
“I was the last one to know abut it. My whole team was like, ‘Did you not realize we’ve been avoiding you for the past two weeks?’ I was like none the wiser, it was so cute.”
She went on to explain how the trip almost went wrong, saying, “Kyle told me that he wanted to go to Turks for Valentine’s Day, and I was like, ‘That’s so cute.’ We went and I got super sick.”
Harlow, who counts modeling for Kim Kardashian’s Skims and walking the Victoria’s Secret runway among her many accomplishments, said everyone was “super scared” and questioned if her sudden illness was going to ruin the trip.
But Kuzma had faith that the big proposal would take the model’s mind off her ailments.
“Kyle was like, once this goes down she’s gonna completely forget she was sick. And he was so right,” said Harlow. She continued, “He not only pulled this off. He pulled it off as if I was a part of the planning. Everything was so perfect.”
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Harlow said on the podcast that her fiancé thought of every last detail, down to making sure she had the perfect manicure for the big moment.
The thoughtful athlete romantically arranged for Harlow’s favorite nail tech from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., where the pair was living at the time, to get Harlow’s nails and lashes perfectly on point.
Harlow said Kuzma casually pretended the tech was in town to see family, in order to keep her in the dark.
Harlow said Kuzma had planned to pop the question once they arrived at their exotic destination, but he ended up kneeling down in the plane because he just couldn’t wait.
“We were getting ready to get on the plane, and he opened the door and it was decorated to the nines,” gushed the model.
She revealed that Kyle read a poem that sounded like he was going to ask her to be his Valentine at the end, but he actually finished with, “Will you be my wife?”
“I was tearing up crying because it was so cute. I literally just went into shock. He pulled out the box and got on one knee, and I was like ‘Yes! I don’t even need to see it!’ It was so beautiful, so romantic, just him and I,” she reminisced.
Harlow revealed that when they arrived for their vacation, she was in for one more surprise, as Kuzma had arranged for the couple’s parents and other family to be there to celebrate.
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Winnie Harlow Reveals How Proposal Was Almost Ruined on ‘Call Her Daddy’