Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock
Dancing with pleasure! Dancing With The Stars’ Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy welcomed their first baby on Tuesday, January 10.
“Our world is eternally modified 🤍 1.10.2023,” Johnson, 28, wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, January 11. The black and white picture confirmed a detailed angle of her, Chmerkovskiy, 36, and their new bundle of pleasure’s fingers as they held each other.
The Provo native took to social media to announce her being pregnant in July.
“Our largest dream come true but 🤍,” Johnson shared through Instagram on the time. “Child Chmerkovskiy coming this January! My coronary heart has grown past comprehension whereas rising this little miracle within me. We will’t wait to satisfy our valuable angel 🥹.”
The choreographer additionally opened up about her battle with infertility previous to giving beginning.
“The second my complete world modified,” Johnson wrote through Instagram alongside a video of herself discovering the constructive being pregnant check. “We had really stopped attempting to conceive for about 6 months to mentally/emotionally give ourselves a break… so the shock, disbelief, and sheer pleasure on this second is a reminiscence I’ll always remember.”
The pair, who tied the knot in 2019, revealed the intercourse of their first baby in a candy video in August.
“IT’S A ……..BOY!!!!!!!! 💙,” Johnson wrote through Instagram alongside her and her husband surrounded by blue confetti. “Right now we’re formally half approach there to assembly our son. Saying these phrases nonetheless makes me emotional!!! SO EXCITED to be a boy mother 😭.”
In September, the brand new mother solely informed Us Weekly about her transition to motherhood sharing that being pregnant has introduced her and the Ukraine native nearer collectively.
“Simply realizing methods to elevate them on this world [is worrisome]. It’s a loopy time. I also have a onerous time navigating it myself. So simply being the perfect mom and nurture and guider that I might be [is the priority], Johnson defined to Us. “Do I’ve all of the instruments? Do I do know what to inform them in sure conditions?”
The So You Assume You Can Dance alum continued: “He’s been such a tremendous help throughout my being pregnant as a result of there’s plenty of issues occurring to my physique which are unusual and never regular. And he simply makes me really feel like an absolute magnificence queen.”
Johnson and Chmerkovskiy initially crossed paths in 2014 when Johnson turned a dancer on DWTS. After remaining associates for a 12 months, they took their relationship to the subsequent stage and formally began relationship in 2015.
Though the 2 put their relationship on pause in 2016, they ultimately rekindled their romance, getting engaged in June 2018 throughout a romantic journey to Italy.
“I knew Jenna was the one after I noticed how shut she is along with her household and the way she interacts along with her nieces and nephews,” the Tempo College alum solely shared with Us Weekly on the time. “Household is all the pieces to me and I can’t anticipate us to construct one collectively.”
The dancers tied the knot two occasions as a way to embody extra household and associates. The primary ceremony occurred in April 2019 and the second was that June.
