Former Bachelorette Michelle Younger and her boyfriend, Jack Leius, utterly had an “invisible string” earlier than they formally began courting.
“She has a good friend and her friend has a little brother, who I know, and her friend’s little brother posted Michelle in his [Instagram] Story and so I kinda just hit him up a couple times,” Leius, 26, printed throughout the Friday, January 5, episode of the “Almost Famous” podcast. “Like, ‘Hey man, when are you gonna introduce me to Michelle?’”
Leius saved pestering his good friend for an advent, telling him that he was once “really serious” about connecting with the previous Bachelorette megastar, 30, as a result of she appeared “really cool” and “beautiful.”
Unbeknownst to Leius, Younger had additionally expressed pastime in her now-boyfriend to the similar sibling pair.
“I had no idea any of this was going on [and] I was with said little brother and my friend, and we were just talking,” she recalled, noting the subject of her singlehood got here up. “I said, ‘I have no idea how I’m supposed to meet my person in Minnesota. Like, [he] is definitely not in Minnesota at this point. I gotta start traveling more because they’re not on the apps!’”
Pondering that Younger had met “all” of her good friend’s brother’s acquaintances, she requested if he’d play matchmaker. The good friend therefore pulled up Leius’ Instagram profile, and Younger was once intrigued that he simplest had “five pictures” earlier than she discovered herself blushing over her bodily enchantment to Leius.
“I was like, ‘Well, is he a good person?’” Younger added. “In my world, I thought I brought it up to this person but [Jack] also did within, like, 48, hours. … It was really weird.”
Younger and Leius met later that night time and instantly clicked.
“I think we spent the next four days together,” Leius instructed podcast host Ben Higgins and visitor Trista Sutter. “And we were dating by Sunday.”
Younger additional speculated that their bond was once a results of the “invisible string theory” that’s been fashionable on social media, explaining that they most probably crossed paths as two Minnesota natives round the similar age.
“We went through breakups at the exact same time,” she mentioned. “We were going through devastating breakups [and] we were in the same stage of our breakups as we were going through ‘Not ready met someone’ [to] ‘Ready to meet somebody’ and then those few steps back. We go to all the same bars … the lake he grew up on, my family fishes [there] 24/7.”
Younger’s romance with Leius is her first courting since she known as off her engagement to Nayte Olukoya. Throughout Younger’s season 18 of The Bachelorette, she were given engaged to Olukoya, 29, throughout the season finale. They break up in June 2022, six months after their proposal aired.