Vanessa Hudgens spoke out this week about achieving a relationship goal she’d always hoped for: marrying before the age of 25.

The 32-year-old actress imagined her love life would follow the same path as her mother’s while she was growing up. She broke up with Austin Butler in January 2020 after nearly nine years together and is currently seeing Cole Tucker.

Vanessa said, “Where I am now is better than I could have dreamed of. My relationship with myself is something I value deeply, even if things don’t always go the way I expected. For instance, my mom got married at 25, so I always thought I was going to be married at 25. That didn’t happen.”

“But I’m in such an amazing, healthy relationship, so it doesn’t matter,” she said. “What I’ve discovered is that we all have these ideas — and if they don’t happen, then there’s a reason why. Learning that has been extremely helpful to my growth. I’m very grateful every day for where I am in this moment of my life.”

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The actress from “Princess Switch” believes she’s “really come into (her) own” over the past few years as she’s become more secure and “fully accepting” of all aspects of herself.

“When you’re fully accepting of who you are, and you stop trying to suppress pieces of yourself, you can conquer the world,” she remarked. “I love how silly I am. I love how excitable I am. And I love that I’m finally at a place where I can access those things.”

“Even the quirky stuff that might have been shut down by other people in the past, like being ridiculous with my friends,” she said, “Those are things I’m now allowing to thrive. For some people, I’m way too much. But I love who I am, and there’s such power in that.”

Hudgens previously told ET that she met Pittsburgh Pirates player Cole in a “very random” manner.

“Me and Cole met on a Zoom meditation group. Very random, yes,” the performer said in April. “Zoom, you’ve got to love it.”

“He’s just kind of perfect for me. I am [happy]. I really am,” Hudgens said. “I think that it’s also so important to stay grateful for everything that you have in life. I’ve been making that a priority, and I feel like it’s just been making magic happen all the more.”