Bachelor Nation’s Katie Thurston Wasted no time in getting engaged to her husband, Jeff ArcuriOnly five months after they got together.
“Our first date was in May [2024 after first connecting in April]. We got engaged in August. Then, in March [of 2025]We ran to my empty apartment here in New York,” Katie, 35, shared on the Wednesday, September 30 episode. “This is not marriage” podcast.
We It was confirmed in August 2024 that Jeff, 38, popped the question during a romantic walk on the famous Secret Beach in Kauai, Hawaii. (Katie was previously engaged blake moynes came in after finalizing it The BacheloretteSeason 17 concludes in August 2021. They ended their engagement after two months.)
Just weeks after Katie was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer in February 2025, We EXCLUSIVELY reported that the reality star and her boyfriend exchanged vows in a private backyard ceremony at their home on March 22, 2025. (Katie’s breast cancer later progressed to stage IV and she had to undergo a double mastectomy in April.)
Katie Thurston and Jeff Arcuri
Michael Locicano/Getty Images“It’s Not Married” Co-Host serena pitt Joked during Wednesday’s interview that Katie has a knack for “quick dating experiences” because of her experience The Bachelorette.
Katie highlights, “We’ve dated so many people by now that we know what we know.”
She said that being “long distance” with Jeff actually “grew the relationship to the point” that she decided to move to New York City to be with him.
“[A long-distance relationship] It’s all deliberate,” she said. “There is no intimacy clouding the judgment. No alcohol to cloud judgment. It’s just a lot of FaceTime and texts.”
Katie continued, “At the age we were [at that point]I was 34…he’s a few years older than me. We knew what we wanted. We weren’t thinking of going on a date. We wanted to find our match! They say, ‘when you know, you know’… that’s the only way to explain it.
There were some major logistical issues that Katie and Jeff faced when they first moved in together.
Katie Thurston and Jeff Arcuri are happily married — and not here for any criticism that they reportedly rushed their union due to his ongoing battle with cancer. Thurston, 34, reposted a social media user’s comment about their relationship on her Instagram Stories on Sunday, May 11. “I think Jeff felt guilty and he needed to do […]
“Her place was too small for us,” she recalled. “The really hard thing about it was that we had to hire [our new apartment] The scene was invisible because when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, we were actually going to go on a world tour together. I had just turned my keys into my LA apartment.
The couple had plans to travel to New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Europe until her diagnosis turned everything upside down.
“All of our plans changed, so while we were in Hawaii, our agent had to help us find an apartment we could live in before we even got back to New York,” Katie said. “We found this place without even seeing it in person… We were very lucky because we needed something that would fit both of us. Otherwise, her apartment was too small – a true bachelor pad.”
Jeff exclusively shared We It was reported in August that Katie’s ongoing cancer treatment had affected the timeline of their potential expansion of the family.
Former Bachelorette Katie Thurston has shot down speculation that she and her husband, comedian Jeff Arcuri, are splitting after a year of marriage. “I have a question: Are you divorcing me?” Thurston, 34, asked Arcuri, 38, in a video shared via her Instagram Story on Tuesday, April 21. “Okay, I notice you’re not ‘liking’ my posts, […]
He acknowledged, “It has a lot of weight now because we have the presence, not of death, but of something very dark happening – and then, on the other end of it, we’re talking about creating life.” “So there’s a beauty in contrast, I think, and I like to focus on that, on the positivity, on what we’re going to do.”
In addition to her cancer journey, Katie recently confirmed that she is recovering from a chin liposuction procedure, though she insisted that the decision to share her surgery was not an attempt to “impress.” [followers] To do this or make statements about what is beautiful and what is not.”