Okay, I know, I know — there are some of you out there who’ll read this post, roll your eyes and remind me that this is one of those rare exceptions…that for most of us mere mortals and plain-looking folk, love does not arrive with thunderbolts, sunlight suddenly bursting through the clouds and winged angels strumming harps and singing in a choir.

But you know what? Reading about second runner-up, Jonathan Waud from Make Me A Supermodel talking about how he met his wife just makes me feel like gagging and choking on my jealousy vomit.

Q: How did you meet your wife?

JW: I was at the Grove in L.A. with a friend of mine, and saw this beautiful girl walk into the Coffee Bean. She was a complete and utter stranger but I had to follow her. Sounds very stalkerish, I know, but I followed her in– even though I don’t drink coffee, or didn’t then- and somehow started talking to her. It was the first time I drank coffee and the first time I fell truly in love.

I’d never had a total ache in my stomach…. up until I met her I thought I knew what love was. This might sound cheesy and a bit of a cliché, but it really was fireworks. It was completely different from anything I’d experienced before.

I proposed six months later to the day of our first date, filled our apartment with roses and proposed over a candlelit dinner. Funny, the ring cost $300, which was a lot for me then and didn’t even come with a box. I looked everywhere for ring boxes but they all seemed really plain so I found a beautiful mother of pearl jewelry box and placed the ring inside it. She still has that box and takes it with us when we travel.