‘Dancing With the Stars’ pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd expecting first child

“Dancing With The Stars” pros and engaged couple Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are happily expecting their first child together. 

“I can’t wait to provide this baby with the tools to become a beautiful, kind person,” Chmerkovskiy, 36, told People. “And they’ll have the best sneaker collection.”

Murgatroyd, 29, regularly appears on the ABC series as part of the professional group of dancers. Rather than taking some time off to rest, the Australian dancer spent her first months of pregnancy competing together with model and deaf activist Nyle DiMarco during Season 22, which they ended up winning.

The dancer planned to keep her pregnancy a private matter until her second trimester, but DiMarco began to catch on to her secret in the rehearsal studio. 

“I was so sick,” Murgatroyd told People. “Nyle would see me falling asleep on the couches and on the floor of the rehearsal studio. He’d look at me like, ‘What’s going on?’ And I’d go, ‘Oh, I’m just tired.’ ”

She added: “Nyle actually came up to me and wrote me a text that said, ‘I know.’ I just lost it laughing because he had known for about two weeks and didn’t say anything to me.”

While the gender of the child has not yet been determined, the hardworking dancer sounds prepared to raise her first child alongside her Ukrainian fiance.

“I’m looking forward to nurturing something and just having the baby be the center of our world,” she shared with the magazine.

Last year, Chmerkovskiy — a former “Dancing With the Stars” professional and guest judge — proposed to Murgatroyd in front of a live audience during a performance in Miami. The dynamic ballroom duo will be dancing down the aisle next summer, and the couple is excited about the timing of their pregnancy.

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