Dancing With The Stars pro Peta Murgatroyd glowed as she stepped out in Los Angeles for coffee and pastries this week.
The 36-year-old is currently expecting her second baby with her dashing husband Maksim Chmerkovskiy, a fellow Dancing With The Stars staple.
Draping her blossoming baby bump in skintight workout gear, she layered up against the wintertime chill in flannel and a fleece coat.
Looking fab: Dancing With The Stars pro Peta Murgatroyd glowed as she stepped out in Los Angeles for coffee and pastries this week
Her latest outing comes after she demonstrated on her Insta Stories that she is committed to keeping up her exercise regimen during her pregnancy.
She posted a string of updates from the gym, turning this way and that to throw her bump into relief as she posed in the mirror.
Peta took the opportunity to plug the black Aritzia jumpsuit she had on, gushing that the outfit was ‘so comfortable, so soft, so buttery.’
She and Makes welcomed their son Shai in 2017 and Peta has been open about her heartrending fertiility struggles as she attempted to have another child.
Growing family: The 36-year-old is currently expecting her second baby with her dashing husband Maksim Chmerkovskiy, a fellow Dancing With The Stars staple
This month she announced: ‘After 2 years of constant struggle and heartache, 3 miscarriages and a failed embryo transfer…we have a healthy bun in the oven.’
She celebrated the new development with a breathtaking photo-shoot of her displaying her blossoming baby bump in lingerie.
She dished in an interview with People magazine in mid-January that she was nearly 18 weeks pregnant and said: ‘All natural, it just happened.’
Peta was on the verge of trying a second round of in vitro fertilization when she received the news that she had conceived.
Off she goes: Draping her blossoming baby bump in skintight workout gear, she layered up against the wintertime chill in flannel and a fleece coat
‘I didn’t even know I was pregnant for so long until I was really feeling sick. I danced through Dancing With The Stars with it,’ she said.
‘I started feeling weird, started feeling a little bit sick and a little bloated and I didn’t want to test for weeks,’ Peta candidly confessed.
She was near the ‘six or seven-week’ point of her pregnancy by the time she finally took the test and ‘I think it was the fastest positive I’ve ever seen in my life.’
The Auckland-born hoofer dished: ‘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!”
Making it happen: Her latest outing comes after she demonstrated on her Insta Stories that she is committed to keeping up her exercise regimen during her pregnancy
Dancing queen: She posted a string of updates from the gym, turning this way and that to throw her bump into relief as she posed in the mirror
Peta, who has suffered three miscarriages, said: ‘It was more like a: “Okay, 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.’
At the moment she knows the sex of the baby, as she ‘can’t wait’ and needs ‘to know these things,’ but has not decided whether to make the information public.
Taking the news to Instagram, she wrote: ‘It brings me immense joy to finally announce that @maksimc and I are expecting our Chmerkovskiy #2.’
She shared: ‘After 2 years of constant struggle and heartache, 3 miscarriages and a failed embryo transfer…we have a healthy bun in the oven :)) It was a shock to all of us and we found out right before I was going in for my second round of IVF.’
Happiness: This month she announced: ‘After 2 years of constant struggle and heartache, 3 miscarriages and a failed embryo transfer…we have a healthy bun in the oven’
Said she: ‘I want to thank ALL OF YOU who’ve been on this fertility journey with me from the beginning. It feels like I’m sharing this news with my extended family. Thank you for sharing your stories and tips to get me through my IVF cycle and thank you for the plethora of encouraging comments and DM’s …I read them all.’
Peta concluded: ‘This news has brought extraordinary bliss to our family and we have so much to be grateful for ….coming June 2023.’
In a shattering People interview last year, she revealed how ‘petrified, embarrassed, and ashamed’ she felt when she miscarried for the first time.
Spellbinding: She celebrated the new development with a breathtaking photo-shoot of her displaying her blossoming baby bump in lingerie
The loss occurred in the autumn of 2020 in a Whole Foods bathroom, leaving her ‘sobbing’ and ‘wailing’ for hours as she sat on the toilet.
When she miscarried again nine months later, she was about to fly to New York to tell Maksim she was pregnant, and instead had to tell him she had lost the baby.
In October 2021, when her husband was in his native Ukraine to work on its version of Dancing With The Stars, Peta endured a third miscarriage.
At the time she was so ill with COVID-19 that she ‘couldn’t open a dishwasher’ or even ‘open the fridge to feed Shai, to get him some toast.’
Parents of two: She announced last June that she was attempting IVF, declaring: ‘For the first time in nearly two years, I feel excited’
After fainting in her son’s bedroom, Peta – who at that point did not even know she was pregnant – was rushed to the hospital and informed she had lost a baby.
Peta ultimately discovered that she had a hormonal disorder called polycystic ovary syndrome that was affecting her fertility.
She announced last June that she was attempting IVF, declaring: ‘For the first time in nearly two years, I feel excited. ‘I’m in a much happier place. I got answers.’
‘I don’t have any other words but hope and positivity,’ said her husband. ‘I’m crossing my fingers that this is going to work.’
Baby mine: The duo welcomed their son Shai in 2017 and Peta has been open about her heartrending fertility struggles as she attempted to have another child