Earlier this week we reported that Eva Marcille (Pigford) and Lance Gross got engaged during the holidays. In an exclusive interview with Essence.com, the couple xposed the details of the surprise engagement.

Essence.com Reports:
On Wednesday, December 24, while vacationing with their families at the couple’s favorite winter getaway spot—the Big Bear ski resort in the San Bernardino Mountains outside of Los Angeles—Marcille and Gross decided to open gifts after dinner in their rented cabin. When Marcille opened her gift—a pillow with a note attached that read: “Hope you like it. Give this pillow to the man you love and he will explain.” After taking the pillow and using it as a cushion, Gross got on bended knee and popped the big question with a 3.36-carat 1895 Pave Cartier ring at 11:30 P.M. PST.

“I was in a complete state of shock!” the 24-year-old Los Angeles native tells ESSENCE.com. “I cried. It was totally unexpected. I’m still in shock. I could not even sleep because I was afraid that I might wake up from the most beautiful dream ever.” (more…)

America’s Next Top Model Winner, Eva Marcille (aka Eva Pigford) is engaged now! Her boyfriend of two years, House of Payne actor, Lance Gross proposed to her on Christmas Eve. How Sweet. No date has been set yet for the nuptials.

In a recent interview with Clutch Magazine, Lance Gross says this about Eva:

We’ve been together a little over a year and a half. We’re pretty serious; we live together. She’s great. She’s supporting me in my dreams and I support her in hers. We really mesh. We’re like in our own little bubble, in La La Land. Yeah, that’s my baby.

Awwwww! Too sweet. Congrats!

Eva Marcille (formerly Pigford), winner of the third season of Tyra Bank’s hit reality show, “America’s Top Model”, has been hired by The Young and the Restless to play a young mother on the hit daytime drama! For all you soap opera lovers, you’ve probably seen her on the show already. The network is planning on giving Eva a more permanent role. Go girl!

FYI- If you are wondering after leaving Banks and Medina for new management, she officially dropped ” Pigford” from her name, now going by Eva Marcille (her middle name).

Eva Pigford and her man Lance Gross took pictures at the ‘The Academy Of TV Arts & Sciences presents: The Daytime Emmy Nominee Reception’ on Monday in Burbank, California. Is it me or did Eva lose A LOT of weight. The pictures are adorable! Check em’ out: (more…)

America’s Next Top Model winner Eva Marcel Pigford  is dating House of Payne star Lance Gross, 26. (more…)