Brody Jenner & Girlfriend Playboy Playmate Jayde Nicole Still Going Strong (Photos)

Posted on January 18, 2009

Brody Jenner is known as a ladies man and serial dater but he seems to have found his perfect match. Jenner is dating Playboy’s 2008 Playmate of the Year, Jayde Nicole. Read more about Brody Jenner and Jayde Nicole below.

So will Brody Jenner be off the market soon?

“We’re completely smitten for each other,” Jenner, 25, tells PEOPLE. “I’m loving life.”

Jenner and Jayde Nicole have known each other for several years and met through one of his ex-girlfriends. But Jenner said their first meeting didn’t go as planned. Brody had asked Nicole, 22, to meet him at a San Diego club, where he was hosting an event, and she didn’t show up.

“I was totally heartbroken,” he says. “I was very upset because I had a crush on her.”

Jenner seems to think being friends for so long has helped in their relationship. “The reason why I love this girl so much is because she knows me,” he says. “She gets it … She knows my background.”

Brody says he and Jayde Nicole prefer staying at home instead of clubbing saying, “We stay in, maybe bake cookies,” he says. “It sounds kind of lame, I know – sorry, boys! – but we bake some cookies, watch DVDs and have nice quality home time.”

“It’s a change in my life, but it’s a good change,” Jenner says.

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And it’s not the only one. Jenner tells PEOPLE, “[For the New Year], I completely quit drinking and I’ve been working out every day and eating the healthiest I’ve ever eaten my entire life.”

Brody seems crazy about Jayde Nicole saying, “She’s in amazing, amazing shape,” he boasts – Jenner says he feels “incredible,” doesn’t think about alcohol and doesn’t want to drink again. “But I have to on Feb. 19,” he says. “It’s my lady’s birthday.”

So what does Jenner have planned for her day? “I want to do something very special for her,” he says, after getting the perfect Christmas gift from her: a custom surfboard, emblazoned with a photo from her Playmate of the Year spread and the Playboy Bunny logo.

“She’s naked but it’s very artistic,” Jenner says. “It’s black and white. It looks incredible.”

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