Legendary figure skating champion Michelle Kwan is getting hitched.

Kwan, 32, already has two Olympic medals and five world championships to her name, and now she's added a diamond ring from her 30-year-old boyfriend Clay Pell.

Pell, a lawyer and director for strategic planning on the White House's National Security staff, first met Kwan in April 2011.

Pell popped the question on Sept. 3 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," Kwan said. "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.' "

Pell admitted he was anxious about orchestrating the perfect proposal, but he knew he'd hear the answer he wanted.

"I was nervous about wanting to do it right, but I wasn't nervous about what the answer would be," he said. "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. So I think we both knew where we were relationship-wise and where we were going." 

Kwan's public service work comes from the Council to Empower Women and Girls Through Sports and as a U.S. public diplomacy envoy through the State Department.

The figure skater said he was certain that committing to Pell for life was the right choice for her.

"It was a simple decision and it made sense, that's what's so exciting to me," Kwan said. "We are working together as a team, like in [pair skating]."

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