According to PEOPLE magazine Jodie Sweetin got a huge surprise gift at her 29th birthday party at the Kibitz Room in Los Angeles Tuesday night January 18, 2011.

It was a complete surprise for everyone when Jodie Sweetin’s boy friend, Morty Coyle, proposed to her in front of all their party guests.

Jodie Sweetin told PEOPLE. ”It was a complete surprise,”  ”We are just thrilled and I am in shock still!”

“I was glad that everybody was there,” she says. “People videotaped it, it was great.” And the venue was decked out specifically for the occasion as well – even though Sweetin didn’t know it.

an engagement ring!

“My friend decorated the whole place with little diamonds on the table and other touches,” she says. Of course, those weren’t the only gems involved.

Her engagement ring, “is so beautiful,” says Sweetin of her 2½-carat oval sapphire, surrounded by 18 diamonds in a snowflake shape. It’s “a one-of-a-kind original,” adds Coyle, from Erwin Hesz jewelers.

Still, it’s a bit early to put the former Full House star (who also has a two-year-old daughter, Zoie, with ex-husband Cody Herpin) on wedding watch.

“We are in no hurry as far as dates or anything like that,” says Sweetin, who adds that gay marriage rights factor into their decision to wait. Adds Coyle: “We want to wait until there’s equality for everybody to get married.”

And if that day doesn’t come anytime soon? “That’s okay,” says Sweetin. “We were absolutely committed before this, anyway. We’re just so excited.”

Adds her new fiancé of their happy news: “Just because we weren’t married doesn’t mean she doesn’t deserve a ring.”

Jodie Sweetin new Book “Unsweetined”
reveals incredible shocking stories of drug abuse which was released on November 3. Jodie confessed to snorting cocaine right before delivering inspirational speeches for ‘Just Say No’ to encourage students to live sober.

Jodi sweetin was living a lie but kept her relapse a secret. Jodie said “I was back to partying like I was at my worst, spending seven hundred dollars a week on meth [and] coke.”

In her book, Sweetin says she drank a couple of times a week through high school, and while she experimented with pot, she began using harder drugs such as cocaine and Ecstasy in college. She said she would return home on weekends and sleep off her week of revelry to “put myself back together.”

Her drug use only increased. Sweetin admits to snorting crystal meth in a bathroom stall at the premiere of her “Full House” castmates Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s film “New York Minute” in 2004. Sweetin said she always traveled through airport security with drugs on her. In a nine-month period bridging 2006 and 2007, she estimated, she spent $60,000 on drugs.

Jodie said writing “Unsweetined” was a catharsis, allowing her “a chance to tell the story the way I wanted to tell it, and get to a place where I was ready to be honest.”

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Jodie Sweetin appeared on TODAY Monday November 2, 2009 to discuss her new autobiography, “Unsweetined: A Memoir,” which details a hellish battle with drugs and alcohol that began at age 14, just a year after “Full House” closed shop in 1995. Her battle continued even after she was an in-demand speaker on sobriety — and even after she gave birth to her daughter, Zoie, in 2008.

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Sweetin, now 27, warmed hearts during her eight-year run as squeaky-clean, goody-two-shoes Stephanie Tanner on “Full House.” While she told Lauer the show “was a wonderful experience in my life,” it left her with adjustment problems after it ended.

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