Stronger collectively. Regardless of their struggles, The Actual Housewives of Orange County alums Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley have maintained their happiness over time.
The pair met whereas filming the fifth season of the Bravo sequence in 2009 and bought engaged 4 years later. Whereas the couple haven’t tied the knot but, they did go on to begin their household. Smiley, for his half, was already the daddy of two sons, Gavin and Grayson, from earlier relationships. After struggling to conceive naturally, Rossi opted to provide IVF a strive.
“It was a really, very tough course of for me. Loads more durable than I had anticipated,” the previous actual property agent completely instructed Us Weekly in February 2018. “The primary time that we did it, we truly had 14 embryos that six hours earlier than we have been going to implant them, or one in every of them in me, we misplaced all of them.”
In December 2018, Rossi on an episode of The Docs that she and the entrepreneur have been anticipating their first little one collectively.
“These signs, I gotta let you know,” Rossi quipped on the time. “Man, like I swear, they misinform you about morning illness. It’s all day illness.”
The duo welcomed their daughter, Skylar Grey, in July 2019. Since their toddler’s arrival, the purse designer has documented her daughter’s most treasured moments on social media.
“Okay so I is likely to be slightly biased😜 however I feel she is the cutest factor ever ❤️,” Rossi captioned a video of her new child one month after giving delivery.
Two years after welcoming Skylar, the TV persona opened as much as Us about why she and the previous little one actor have but to stroll down the aisle.
“We bought very preoccupied making an attempt to have a child, clearly, and that’s a really costly course of going by way of IVF for that a few years,” she stated in April 2021. “It’s fascinating as a result of I’d like to be married to Slade. I truly name him my husband.”
Tragedy struck the household in February 2023 when Smiley’s son Grayson died on the age of twenty-two. Grayson was identified with mind most cancers when he was six years previous. Rossi posted a touching tribute for the California native’s late son.
“Our rational minds instructed us this present day may come, however our hearts all the time held onto the hope that this present day wouldn’t come to fruition 💔,” the previous Bravo star penned a slideshow of photographs of Smiley and his son over time. “We’re past devastated and heartbroken over the lack of Grey. Grayson Arroyo-Smiley was such a particular human being.”
Hold scrolling to see Rossi and Smiley’s finest household moments:
