Kym Marsh and Dan Hooper

Kym Marsh and Dan Hooper

Kym Marsh is the "happiest" she's ever been following her engagement.

The 'Coronation Street' actress revealed her boyfriend Dan Hooper had popped the question earlier this month and she's now confessed she never dreamed her year would end on such a high note following her rocky start to 2014.

She said: "I'm the happiest I've ever been and if I'd been told that at the beginning of 2014 I wouldn't have believed it.

"At the start of the year I was going through my divorce [from Jamie Lomas] and I was still recovering from the operation that meant I couldn't have any more children."

The 38-year-old star - who plays pub landlady Michelle Connor in the ITV soap - insists her newfound joy is all down to meeting her husband-to-be.

Writing in her column for OK! magazine she added: "At that point, I couldn't have imagined my life would've changed so much or that I could be as happy as I am now. Everything changed when I met Dan."

The brunette beauty's comments come following news she was planning to quit social networking site Twitter after she and her children were targeted by trolls.

However, a source close to Kym insists her absence from the site is simply as result of her looking after a sick relative.

The insider told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "A member of her family has been quite poorly the last few days which has meant she has been offline as for Kym family always comes before anything else. She'll be back tweeting soon enough."

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