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Reports: Ryan Phillippe is engaged

Andrea Mandell
USA Today
Actor Ryan Phillippe and actress Paulina Slagter attend the People Magazine Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Dec. 18, 2014, in Beverly Hills, California.

It was a romantic Christmas for Delaware native Ryan Phillippe.

The 41-year-old actor proposed to his girlfriend of over four years, Paulina Slagter, over the holidays, according to People and E! News.

Phillippe last starred in ABC's "Secrets and Lies." Slagter is a Stanford Law School student.

"She's awesome," Phillippe told Howard Stern earlier this year. "When people see her they have these judgments because she could be a model but she's about to graduate Stanford Law. Also what's great about it – as you get older certain issues become more important to you. I'm very involved in civil rights issues, and so to be with a woman who could actually make an impact in the legal realm – that's a beautiful thing."

Page Six first reported the engagement.

Phillippe was married to Reese Witherspoon from 1999 to 2008. They have two kids: Ava, who at 16 is a doppelgänger of her mother, and Deacon, 12.

Witherspoon, 39, married agent Jim Toth in 2011.

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