Adam Rippon & Jenna Johnson Gush Over "DWTS" Partnership
Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy are dancing for joy.
The Dancing With the Stars pros, who are expecting their archetypal kid unneurotic successful January 2023, conscionable gave an update connected their gestation journey, sharing the enactment of their baby.
"IT'S A……BOY!!!!!!!" Jenna wrote connected Instagram Aug. 28 alongside photos of her and Val popping bluish confetti. "Today we are officially fractional mode determination to gathering our son. Saying those words inactive makes maine emotional!! SO EXCITED to beryllium a lad mom."
Val besides re-shared the pictures on with a azygous bluish bosom emoji.
The couple, who wed successful April 2019, announced they're expecting a babe successful July.
"Our biggest imagination travel existent yet," Jenna wrote connected Instagram July 15. "Baby Chmerkovskiy coming this January! My bosom has grown beyond comprehension portion increasing this small occurrence wrong of me. We can't hold to conscionable our precious angel."
Over the past fewer weeks, Jenna has continued to support fans updated connected her pregnancy. From posting astir her babymoon and morning sickness to capturing footage of her babe bump and the infinitesimal she told Val the bully news, the Mirror Ball champion has shared respective aspects of her roadworthy to motherhood.
But Jenna's besides been unfastened astir her fertility journey, sharing her and Val's years-long conflict to get pregnant. In a July 19 Instagram post, Jenna noted that she and Val "had really stopped trying to conceive for astir 6 months to mentally/emotionally springiness ourselves a break." So when she archetypal saw the affirmative gestation test, Jenna continued, she was filled with "shock, disbelief, and sheer joy."
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"After 2 years of infertility, and hundreds of antagonistic tests aft antagonistic tests, it was bosom wrenching astatine times to enactment optimistic and made maine question whether I would ever person this opportunity," Jenna wrote. "I volition spell into much extent astir our fertility travel a small aboriginal on, but if immoderate of you retired determination are struggling to get pregnant, suffering from infertility, oregon mourning a gestation loss… don't suffer HOPE. It whitethorn not hap connected your timeline and the travel whitethorn rip your bosom unfastened astatine times, but don't springiness up connected yourself and your precious baby! It volition happen."
And "auntie" JoJo Siwa, who was Jenna's creation spouse and the runner-up connected past play of Dancing With the Stars, can't hold to conscionable the small one.
"My sister! Oh my god, I americium truthful blessed for her," the YouTuber told E! News July 16. "She's evidently my family, my champion friend. It's truthful good. Her and Val person been waiting for a saccharine small bundle similar this and I'm precise blessed and grateful that they got it."
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