Dua Lipa has opened up about her relationship with her fiancé Callum Turner as she detailed ‘intensely falling’ for the actor in a candid new interview.
The singer, 29, who also posed for a stunning shoot alongside the chat, admitted she is prepared to be ‘vulnerable’ and allow love even if it means she gets hurt.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar U.S. for its Global Icons issue, Dua said that although opening her heart is scary she feels ‘lucky’ she gets to feel it.
The couple began dating in early January last year, before making their romance official months later in June. They confirmed their engagement a year later.
Discussing their relationship, Dua said: ‘I love love. It is a beautiful thing. It’s a really inspiring thing. You find yourself so intensely falling all the time in the best way possible. That vulnerability is so scary, but I feel so lucky to get to feel it.
‘I’ve spent a lot of time being guarded or protecting my heart, and so I’m letting go of that feeling and just being like, “Okay, if I’m supposed to get hurt, then this is what’s going to happen.” I have to just allow love.
Dua Lipa has opened up about her relationship with her fiancé Callum Turner as she detailed ‘intensely falling’ for the actor in a candid new interview
The singer, 29, who also posed for a stunning shoot alongside the chat, admitted she is prepared to be ‘vulnerable’ and allow love even if it means she gets hurt
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar U.S. for its Global Icons issue, Dua said that although opening her heart is scary she feels ‘lucky’ she gets to feel it
When asked how it feels to be speaking so candidly about her relationship, she said: ‘I’m happier than ever, so it feels like I’m doing a disservice by not talking about it.’
‘When you’re a public person, anything that’s very personal is very vulnerable. It’s not like I don’t want to share it.’
Dua, who turns 30 in August, publicly shared her excitement for the first time since the actor got down on one knee during a recent interview with British Vogue.
The pop sensation discussed her family plans, saying she’s concerned how having children will fit in with her career as a pop star.
‘I’d love to have kids one day,’ she said. ‘But it’s like the constant question of when would there ever be a good time – how it would fit in with my job and how it would work if I went on tour, and how much time out I’d have to take.
‘I think it’s just one of those things that’s going to happen when it happens. I love kids, but I think there’s so much more to raising a child than just loving children.’
Confirming their engagement, Dua said: ‘Yeah we‘re engaged. It’s very exciting.
‘This decision to grow old together, to see a life and just, I don’t know, be best friends forever – it’s a really special feeling.’
The couple began dating in early January last year, before making their romance official months later in June. They confirmed their engagement a year later
Discussing their relationship, Dua said: ‘I love love. It is a beautiful thing’
Dua posed in a cut out white dress for one stunning picture
She sported a Madonna cone-style bralette and black satin skirt
She also modelled a black leather suit
Late last year, news of their romantic proposal emerged and Dua has regularly been seen with a dazzling diamond ring on her finger.
Speaking of their wedding plans, Dua said she hopes to finish her tour and Callum to wrap up filming before they tie the knot.
While the wedding hasn’t been at the forefront of her mind amid her busy schedule touring, she did admit she has started to think about her dress.
She said: ‘I want to finish my tour, Callum’s shooting, so we’re just enjoying this period.
‘I’ve never been someone who’s really thought about a wedding, or dreamt about what kind of bride I would be. All of a sudden, I’m like: “Oh, what would I wear?”‘
Dua said she’s ‘obsessed’ with her engagement ring, before insisting ‘It’s nice to know the person that you’re going to spend the rest of your life with knows you very well.’
Dua and Callum were first linked in January 2024 and reportedly got engaged over Christmas in 2024.
‘I think it’s just one of those things that’s going to happen when it happens. I love kids, but I think there’s so much more to raising a child than just loving children.’
She looked incredible in a Chanel black silk crop top
The star rocked a pair of quirky denim and leather trousers
Dua and Callum had ‘many Sliding Doors moments’, where they were in the same place at the same time without realising, before being introduced to one another at the River Cafe in London.
A year later, she was having dinner in Los Angeles with her friend Mustafa the Poet when ‘all of a sudden’ Callum appeared.
She thought: ‘Oh, it’s that really hot guy from The River Cafe.’
During their conversation, the pair realised they both ‘just happened to be reading’ Hernan Diaz’s novel Trust.
Asked if she feels they were destined to be together, she replied: ‘One thousand per cent.’
Dua and Callum first sparked romance rumours in January 2024 when they both attended a Masters Of The Air afterparty in London.
Prior to making her relationship public, the Dance the Night songstress revealed during promotion for her album Radical Optimism that she had to find her ‘confidence’ again after previous relationships had gone awry.
The backdrop to one of the images was the iconic Eiffel Tower
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Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she revealed: ‘In terms of relationships, I needed to get to this place in order to find what I really needed. You have to be in the act of forgiveness and growing and learning, and being okay with the past in order to move on with what’s to come next.
‘So it’s, for me, Happy for You is a beautiful, happy song, because it’s so reflective of my journey.
‘I think with every relationship, with every experience you learn about yourself, you learn about things that are hurtful to you, what you expect, what you should be ready to give as well.
‘I think, again, it goes back to that exchange of vulnerability.
‘I think I’ve had relationships which have been really hurtful, especially earlier on, where I feel like I’ve been made to feel like not good enough or have made me lose my confidence and I’ve had to find that again.
‘You learn about your own non-negotiables. I think that’s an important thing. It’s of course the right person, but it’s really about the right relationship.
‘You find that in friendships and in love relationships as well, of your non-negotiables.’
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