See Which Pros Gave Birth

Ballroom infants! Peta Murgatroyd, Karina Smirnoff and and extra Dancing With the Stars execs have welcomed youngsters through the years.

The Religion, Hope & Love star gave birth to her and then-fiancé Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s son, Shai, in January 2017. “That is, indisputably, one of the best factor that has ever occurred to us!’” the couple advised Us Weekly in an announcement on the time.

The pair tied the knot six months later in New York. Earlier than Shai’s 1st birthday, their infant already “love[d] music.” Murgatroyd exclusively told Us in March 2018: “We’re making an attempt to introduce him to that day by day. He sits on our hip and we take him across the room and dance with him. He loves that.”

By the next yr, the infant was “obsessive about Pitbull and Dua Lipa” throughout dance events along with his dad and mom. “I believe we’d be upset if he was uncoordinated with us being his dad and mom,” Murgatroyd joked with Us in February 2019.

As for Smirnoff, the season 13 winner welcomed her son, Theo, in April 2020. “She’s doing properly,” a supply advised Us on the time. “As a first-time mother, she’s a bit nervous but additionally excited!”

The Famously Single alum didn’t show her baby bump till three months after her toddler’s arrival. “#FBF The day earlier than Theo arrived. #hospitalfashion #timeflies,” Smirnoff captioned a July 2020 Instagram slideshow.

Smirnoff skilled “nervousness” as a brand new mother, she mentioned throughout a Could 2020 occasion. “I like infants, however after I would come to my mates who had a new child and so they had been like, ‘Right here, maintain,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh, my gosh, how do I?’” she defined. “I wouldn’t even know learn how to seize her or him. So, I used to be panicking pondering, ‘OK, the newborn’s going to be born and I’m not even going to know learn how to change a diaper.’ And all people’s like, ‘It comes instinctively, don’t fear.’”

Due to her nerves, Smirnoff moved in with her “incredibly helpful” parents, gushing, “I wouldn’t be capable to do it with out them.”

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