Future dancer! Jenna Johnson and husband Val Chmerkovskiy have revealed the sweet name that they have chosen for their first child.
20.01.2023 - 18:03 / usmagazine.com
Proud uncle! Maks Chmerkovskiy has enjoyed watching his younger brother, Val Chmerkovskiy, become a first-time father.
“My brother’s a more pragmatic person [than I am]. He’s very thoughtful about things and yet [to] watch him be so disheveled and sort of like unable to [keep his thoughts together] … is so beautiful to watch,” the Dancing With the Stars champ, 43, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, January 19, while promoting his involvement with the Unify Ukraine campaign. “And the first thing he said to me at least, it was the second his baby came out, the first thought he had was, ‘Should have done it sooner,’ which is exactly what I thought the first time.”
He continued: “Because we all live in the world. We’re like, ‘What are we bringing the kids out into? Should we do it now? Am I ready? Am I ready financially? Am I stable enough? Is my partner the one that I want to be with for the rest of my life?’ These are all questions that we were all trying to answer while also doing our job and bettering [and] developing ourselves.”
Val, 36, and wife Jenna Johnson welcomed their first child on January 10, nearly six years after Maks and spouse Peta Murgatroyd became parents to son Shai, now 6. The Burn the Floor alum — who called fatherhood a “dream come true” — further gushed about watching the “Chmerkovskiy clan” grow. (Both brothers initially met their wives on DWTS and continued competing after their respective weddings.)
“It’s an incredible thing,” Maks told Us on Thursday. “The Chmerkovskiy clan is really going through a renaissance at the moment. I cannot wait for this next generation [and] I know Val and Jenna are gonna be amazing parents.”
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