Apr 27, 2011 13:41 GMT  ·  By

Happy news for Kate Hudson and Matthew Bellamy: they are engaged. The announcement comes from Kate herself, who just confirmed it on an interview with Matt Lauer.

Kate sat down with Lauer to promote her latest film, “Something Borrowed,” and the topic of her pregnancy and engagement eventually came up in the discussion, as the video below will show.

After speaking a bit about how her second pregnancy has been so far (Kate and Matt are expecting their first child later this year), Kate finally dropped the bomb: she was engaged.

“It just happened a week ago, I’m so glad you noticed,” she said when Lauer asked her to show him her hand, because he noticed something sparkling on it.

Making a standard engagement announcement seems a bit forced, the actress went on to say.

“I haven’t really announced it and I felt like the announcing thing feels so silly, and I was just waiting for someone to notice,” she said laughing.

Kate and Matt haven’t set a date yet because they want to wait for the baby to come and to try out parenthood for a while, but she is clearly happy about these major changes in her life.

“He’s a beautiful man, and I’m excited,” she gushed. Pressed for details on how Matt proposed, Kate wouldn’t say anything except that it was “very sweet, very romantic.”

In January this year, when rumors about an engagement were starting to make the rounds, Kate denied them, saying that marriage wasn’t at the top of her priorities list for the time being.

“I don’t like putting that sort of pressure on it and I don’t feel it necessary to get married. I am 31, I already have one child, and have had one divorce, so it is not necessarily the golden ticket. I just want t be happy,” she said, as we also reported at the time.

As it turns out, she can be happy and engaged / married. Check out Kate Hudson’s engagement announcement on Matt Lauer below.