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The Bachelorette star Jillian Harris is about to take a big step.

Surprisingly, she’s not dumping Ed Swiderski, her fiance, despite rumors of him giving it to more women than Jon Gosselin over the past few months.

The Canadian cutie is moving to Chicago to be with her man on Tuesday, she dished Thursday: “I’m all packed up and ready to go,” the 30-year-old said.

E! tracked down Jillian at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in N.Y.C., where her date was an entirely different bachelor than the one who put a ring on it.

Mike Steinberg, the New York-based baseball camp owner whom Jillian Harris nixed in episode four, accompanied her to the catwalk. It was Ed’s idea!

“Ed was supposed to be here today but then he couldn’t book his flight,” she explained. “Ed and he have been really good friends since the show. So Ed’s like, ‘Why don’t you have Steinberg sit in for me? That’ll make some great news.'”

The future Mrs. Ed Swiderski also mentioned spending time with The Bachelor star Jason Mesnick and his runner-up-turned-fiancee, Molly Malaney.

Jason and Molly aren’t engaged – for now. But Jillian is, and she’s already planning her wedding to Ed. Just not aggressively planning it right away.

“I think everybody witnessed that it could be so intense right after the show was over. We want to try to live a normal life and get to the point where we live together and we really come together, then start planning,” she said.

Surprisingly logical for a reality TV star. Not that Jillian Harris doesn’t already have a few of the wedding details picked out. Or most, or all of them.

“I want to have a couple cakes, a live band and maybe like 100 people there, that’s it,” she said. “Probably in my parents’ backyard. Totally low key.”

As for babies, they’re in the far off future for now: “I’m very excited to have kids but I’m excited to have a place for my clothes first,” she says.

Asked who should be the next star of The Bachelor, Jill said that Reid Rosenthal would be the ideal choice, because he’s “a solid package.”

That he is. But who do you think should be The Bachelor?