AMC alum J.R. Martinez announces engagement

AMC alum J.R. Martinez announces engagement

Former All My Children star J.R. Martinez (ex-Brot Monroe) is engaged.

Congratulations are in order for All My Children alum, Dancing With the Stars winner, and Army veteran J.R. Martinez (ex-Brot Monroe). The actor has announced that he is engaged.

Martinez took to Facebook to share that he and longtime girlfriend Diana Gonzalez-Jones are ready to share their lives together.

"It wasn't easy but we did it. Now we're doing it," he posted, along with a ring emoji. "We were basking in joy!"

Martinez, a real-life war veteran who starred on AMC from 2008 to 2011, has a daughter, Lauryn, with Gonzalez-Jones. She was born in May 2012.

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Edited by SC Desk