The “Dancing With the Stars” pro, 36, announced on Friday that she and her husband, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, are expecting a rainbow baby after multiple miscarriages and one round of IVF.
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Peta Jane Murgatroyd is a New Zealand-born Australian and American professional Latin dancer.
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Peta Murgatroyd had been dating DWTS pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy off and on since 2012.The couple became engaged on 5 December 2015.
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Maksim "Maks" Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy is a Ukrainian-American Latin–ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor.
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Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy became parents in January 2017 when son Shai was born. The couple officially married on 8 July 2017 in Oheka Caste in New York.
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The dancers were vocal over the years about their plans to give the little one a sibling, but they struggled to conceive baby No. 2.
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In June 2022, Murgatroyd revealed she suffered her first pregnancy loss in a Whole Foods bathroom in 2020.
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Murgatroyd went on to describe two additional miscarriages, admitting she felt “ashamed” and “embarrassed” at the time.
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Chmerkovskiy, for his part, was “really upset” by the losses. The couple, however, felt “hope and positivity” after seeing a fertility specialist.
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Murgatroyd, who had been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, underwent an egg retrieval that same month to begin the IVF process.
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