Nazanin 'Naz' Khanjani has finally found happiness with a new man after being twice unlucky in love.
She was the runner-up in last year's season of The Bachelor NZ, when Jordan Mauger chose Fleur Verhoeven over her, then went on to have a dramatic split from her following boyfriend, Craig Sutherland.
Naz, 27, is thrilled to announce she's now in a stable, loving relationship with 31-year-old Hamilton bodybuilder and bricklayer Daniel Mazzola.
"His body is to die for!" Naz gushes.
"I'm like in love with his body, he's got the bodybuilder's body that I've got a huge weakness for."
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She says the pair are falling for each other hard, are morally in-tune... and he could bench press her with one hand.
"He's got his life together and he knows what he wants. He's not into the party scene any more, he's mature. Right from the start, he told me the next girl he wants to be with is the one he wants to settle down with and get married to. That's what I want too."
Mazzola says he is "pretty smitten" with Naz.
"We hit it off really well and just gelled. We have a lot in common and she's just an awesome girl, really thoughtful and caring," he says.
Naz was notorious on The Bachelor NZ, keeping an infamous 'hit-list' and often being referred to as 'Nasty Naz'.
"She's very strong-willed and she stands up for herself, but I'd never call her nasty or a bitch or anything like that," says Mazzola.
He says some friends and family were aware of Naz's notoriety, but everyone is nonetheless supportive of their relationship and trusting of his judgment.
Although she's very confident she's with Mazzola for the long-haul, Naz says the couple delayed announcing their relationship just to be on the safe side.
"It's taken us some time to go public with this. With my last boyfriend, it all happened so quickly," says Naz.
"With Dan we weren't keen to go public at the start because of our ex-partners, but now we're pretty positive about everything, we're very happy with each other, we have no doubts."
Naz says the pair have been talking for about three months, but Mazzola was "taken" when they first met, so they didn't hang out much to begin with. She insists she didn't flirt with Mazzola while he was with his former partner, or do anything to disrespect her.
"When it comes to relationships, I have very, very high morals. I'm very old-school," says Naz.
"Even though I was single at the time, I respected the fact that he was taken and he respected his partner as well. We didn't do anything wrong."
Naz still lives in Auckland while Mazzola lives in Hamilton, but says they'll be visiting each other every weekend and even during the week as well.
"He owns his own home in Hamilton, so it'll probably be me that eventually moves," says Naz.
If her thinking about moving cities to live with Mazzola sounds serious, she's also already talking babies. Naz saw a clairvoyant over the weekend and was delighted to be told to expect a baby boy within the next two years.
Meanwhile, former The Bachelor NZ Jordan Mauger reportedly has launched a profile on dating app Bumble, just months after announcing he himself was in a relationship with a new woman.
"That doesn't surprise me," says Naz, who claims he approached her after the show finished filming, despite being with Fleur at the time.
"I've seen him behave like that first-hand myself. It's actually quite sad."
As far as the new season of The Bachelor NZ with Zac Franich goes, Naz says she isn't watching it and has no interest in doing so.
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