Starlet Tara Reid makes her living in the movies. And her real-life engagement to boyfriend Michael Axtmann, which was January 18 in a Los Angeles restaurant, unfolded more or less like a scene in one of them.

“Michael surprised Tara with a beautiful, round, brilliant cut ring,” Reid’s representative recently told People magazine.”Tara was so happy, and the other patrons clapped and yelled out, ‘Congratulations.’”

A wedding date isn’t set. The engagement follows the one she had with late-night TV host Carson Daly, some ten years ago. And it occurs on the heels of her recent appearance in Playboy magazine, where she bares as much as that publication allows, in spite of once saying she’d never pose nude.

Reid made that claim because she had undergone plastic surgery that didn’t agree with her – a botched liposuction procedure that created “battle wounds” of stomach ripples and wrinkles. She has also had breast augmentation. But in spite of all those efforts to improve herself, Reid seemed to feel the results were nothing worth posing about.

She changed her mind but reportedly felt insecure about appearing in Playboy right up to the moment she finally stood in front of cameras. From there, she went with it, creating results that are currently on magazine stands.

Although her previous experience with lipo was negative, with an upcoming wedding, Tara may get on the plastic-surgery-for-brides bandwagon.

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Tara Reid lunched in Miami with girlfriends this week, and amid all the frantic female gesturing, a few photographers couldn’t help but catch something glittery on her finger.

This summer the actress and German billionaire boyfriend Michael Axtmann spent time in St. Tropez and other party spots, but it looks like their relationship may not be all play after all.

Reid was spotted with a huge pear-shaped bauble on her ring finger, and was talking loudly about her recent engagement, some ladies who lunch told E!Online.

Reid hasn’t made an appearance on the big screen since 2003′s The Boss’s Daughter, but she has been in print recently as a centerfold for Playboy. The actress said she would never pose for the men’s mag due to a botched liposuction procedure that left her with a rippled wrinkly, stomach. But something–or someone–changed her mind.

An insider describes the out-of-work actress as nervous during the first few shots. “She was a bit insecure about her body when they first started. She looked great and finally got into the groove,” an insider told In Touch. Reid has also been criticized in the media for having lopsided implants.

No word on when the Playboy spread will come out, or if Reid will be confirming the engagement.

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