Michelle Kwan engaged to National Security officer

Washington, Sept 12 (ANI): US figure skater Michelle Kwan has announced that she got engaged to Clay Pell, director for strategic planning on the National Security staff at the White House on September 3. "It was a simple decision and it made sense, that's what's so exciting to me," Kwan told People magazine. "We are working together as a team, like in [pair skating]," she said. To which Pell, 30, added: "It was amazing from the very beginning how in sync our way of thinking is, our basic values and our sense of priorities. We just both got each other." Pell proposed to the Olympic star at Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island. "It was hot and we were going to go into the water to cool ourselves off a little bit. "I wasn't anticipating going swimming. I said, 'I don't feel comfortable because I don't have my bathing suit on.' He's like, 'No, come on in,' so I said, 'Okay'," she said. Pell said that he was nervous about wanting to do it right, but he wasn't nervous about what the answer would be. "We had been talking for a while about how we would like to have a family and the idea of getting married and what we wanted to do with our lives - and public service," he said. "So I think we both knew where we were relationship-wise and where we were going," he added. (ANI)