Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy Are Expecting Baby No. 2 After Suffering Multiple Miscarriages

13.01.2023 - 20:43 / usmagazine.com

Party of four! Peta Murgatroyd is expecting her and husband Maksim Chmerkovskiy ’s second child following multiple miscarriages.

“All natural, it happened,” Murgatroyd, 36, told People in a statement on Friday, January 13, noting she wasn’t aware of the pregnancy until she started feeling “really sick.”

She added that she’s nearly 18 weeks pregnant, telling the outlet: “I think it was the fastest positive I’ve ever seen in my life. It just came up super quick and I was just shocked. It’s been completely different from my past pregnancy. It wasn’t like I jumped for joy and I shouted from the rooftops, ‘Oh my God, I’m pregnant. Yay!’ It was more like a, ‘OK, well let’s see what happens because I’ve been through this four other times, and it hasn’t worked.’ So I was very skeptical. I didn’t even tell Maks for a while.”

The Dancing With the Stars pros, who tied the knot in 2017, are already parents to son Shai, who turned 6 years old earlier this month.

The New Zealand native’s happy news comes six months after she first spoke out about her pregnancy losses in June 2022. One month later, she exclusively told Us Weekly how she and her family have coped in the aftermath of the sad news.

“It’s traumatizing, and [Maks] is the one that’s closest to me,” she said in July 2022. “It did bring us closer together. When you go through something like that, it’s just an ultimate bonding session. … When you come to those crossroads and those big decisions, making them together and moving forward together as a family unit is so important, and I feel like we did that.”

The professional dancer also detailed her journey with IVF.

“I’m very hopeful,” she told Us at the time. “I really want a girl … and [Maks is] very much just wanting that bond with