Jess celebrated the milestone last week, surrounded by friends and family including brother Mark and his wife Michelle Keegan, and she revealed there is someone special now – but she wants her relationship to stay private.
Speaking to OK! magazine, the TOWIE star said: “I’ve been so content and happy on my own and I think that’s why I wasn’t just saying yes to anyone who asked me out.
“I’ve kissed a lot of frogs, but now I feel so much stronger and I won’t go anywhere near anyone unless I think they are absolutely right.”
Mark and Michelle, both 28, married in a lavish ceremony in May this year and, while Jess definitely wants her happily ever after, she’s in no rush.
She continued: “I want the fairytale like Mark and Michelle. But I’m not going to put pressure on myself. It will happen when it happens.”
Jess split from long-term boyfriend Ricky Rayment, 25, in December last year, after it emerged that he’d been messaging other women behind her back.
Ricky was quick to move on with Geordie Shore’s Marnie Simpson but, although she enjoyed some on-screen flirtations with fellow TOWIE stars Dan Edgar and Peter Wicks, Jess has remained single.
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