Still trying. Peta Murgatroyd and her husband, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, are trying to expand their family with help from in vitro fertilization — and son Shai may get more than one new sibling.
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Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy get candid about suffering three miscarriages over the last two years.
In an exclusive interview with People, Murgatroyd, 35, vividly recalls lying in a hospital bed after a team of medics carried her into an ambulance from her Malibu home while her five-year-old son watched.
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The “Dancing with the Stars” professional dancer placed the call herself when she realized something was wrong that night in October 2021. She remembers lying on her son Shai’s bedroom floor, completely unable to move since testing positive for COVID a few days earlier.
“I had no strength. I couldn’t open a dishwasher. I couldn’t open the fridge to feed Shai, to get him some toast,” Murgatroyd tells People. “It got so bad that my breath was starting to be affected. It was really dramatic.”
Murgatroyd called Chmerkovskiy, who was away in Ukraine for work, from the hospital and put him on speaker while the doctor entered her room.
She asked the doctor, “What’s wrong?” and that’s when he delivered the devastating news: “Did you know you were pregnant?”
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“I ultimately had no idea [I was pregnant], which in hindsight was better for my recovery because I didn’t have that super joyous moment of, ‘I’m pregnant again!'” says Murgatroyd. “I just had the moment of ‘You lost it.'”
She continues, “It was just all too much for my body and I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t believe that this was happening to me.”
Chmerkovskiy says it was “crazy” for him not to have been there with his
Still trying. Peta Murgatroyd and her husband, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, are trying to expand their family with help from in vitro fertilization — and son Shai may get more than one new sibling.
How she coped. Peta Murgatroyd suffered one of her miscarriages while working on Dancing With the Stars, and now she’s opening up about how it affected her work.
Nobody’s business. Dancing With the Stars’ Jenna Johnson is putting her foot down when it comes to dealing with questions about her and husband Val Chmerkovskiy’s family plans.
Sisters sticking together. Dancing With the Stars pro Jenna Johnson couldn’t be more proud of her sister-in-law Peta Murgatroyd for opening up about her fertility struggles.
Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are continuing to share their IVF journey with fans. Peta took to Instagram Monday to bring fans along with her as she and Maksim attended their first ultrasound appointment together since starting her IVF treatments.In the video, the pair headed to Peta's appointment, where they took a look at the alum's ovarian follicles, to determine how viable they are ahead of their egg retrieval — the next step in the process of Peta's IVF treatments.«We are going in together, this is the first time Maks is here for one of the ultrasounds, so it's gonna be good,» Peta shared.
Dancing With the Stars professionals Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Though Murgatroyd gave birth to their son Shai Aleksander in 2017, they've endured a lot of heartbreak in the years since, and the couple opened up about a particularly tough situation they faced when Murgatroyd suffered a miscarriage while Chmerkovskiy was in his native Ukraine. In October of 2021, Peta Murgatroyd said she had just tested positive for COVID and was really struggling, as Maksim Chmerkovskiy was out of the country and serving as a judge on the Ukrainian version of Dancing With the Stars.
Opening up. Sharon Stone revealed that she’s suffered nine miscarriages over the years after Dancing With the Stars pro Peta Murgatroyd detailed her own recent pregnancy losses.
Sharon Stone has suffered nine miscarriages, she revealed on Instagram this week. The 64-year-old actress shared the information in a comment on a Instagram post that featured an interview with Peta Murgatroyd, who recently opened up about losing her pregnancy while her husband, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, was in Ukraine. «We, as females don't have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss,» Stone wrote beneath the outlet's caption. «I lost nine children by miscarriage.
Sharon Stone has opened up about her nine miscarriages for the first time as she discussed her “profound loss” in response to a post on Instagram.The 64 year old actress candidly spoke about her ordeal as she wrote underneath a post by People magazine featuring Dancing with the Stars dancer Peta Murgatroyd, 35, who discussed her own pregnancy loss with her husband Maks Chmerkovskiy. "We, as females don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss. I lost nine children by miscarriage,' Sharon wrote.
Sharon Stone has revealed she has lost nine children through miscarriages. The actor, 64, commented under an Instagram post from People magazine where dancer Peta Murgatroyd revealed she had suffered a miscarriage while her husband was in Ukraine. Stone commented: “We, as females, don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss.
Peta Murgatroyd has begun her IVF treatment and she’s bringing her fans along for the ride.
Peta Murgatroyd has started her first round of IVF treatments. The alum, took to Instagram Wednesday to share a video, where she gave herself the first of many injections of in her and Maksim Chmerkovskiy's journey toward baby no. 2.The video begins with a fresh-faced Peta in a gray cropped longsleeve shirt and sweats, leaving just her stomach — the injection site — exposed. «So, this is it, I'm in my bathroom the first night that I'm gonna be doing my IVF treatment,» Peta began.
Gallery: ‘I wouldn't wish my childhood on anyone’: Celebs who still struggle with their parents' divorce (BANG Showbiz)The 'Dancing with the Stars' professionals have been married since 2017 and Peta has suffered a total of three miscarriages during their time together, with Maks describing the last one as the "as dark" as love can get. He told PEOPLE: "I think the darkest part is when the person you are in love with calls you and she says that she had a miscarriage in the bathroom, that's as dark as it can get.