Emma Roberts made a playful effort to beat her mother, Kelly Cunningham, to the punch this week when it came to acknowledging a personal milestone.

On Tuesday, Roberts announced her engagement to fellow actor Cody John by sharing a stunning photo of the couple posing by a lake on Instagram.

In the accompanying caption, the American Horror Story actor wrote that she was putting this here before my mom tells everyone.

As fans may recall, Cunningham accidentally broke the news of Roberts 2020 pregnancy over social media before she had the chance to do so herself. At the time, Cunningham was responding to Instagram users who had tagged her in screenshots of a tabloid report.

Mothers and Instagram, its a bad combination. It was a disaster and I found it all out on a plane, so I couldnt get to her, Roberts later recalled to Jimmy Kimmel.