Jenna Johnson & Val Chmerkovskiy Announce They’re Expecting!
Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy have been a power couple on Dancing With The Stars for years. But now, the couple has some really great news to share. They’re expecting their first child together!
The exciting news comes not long after Val’s brother Maks Chmerkovskiy and his wife Peta revealed they are also trying for another baby through fertility treatments. There’s definitely a lot of love to go around in this family.
Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy can’t wait to be parents
Jenna and Val always said they wanted children. But they seemed intent on leaving the timing up to change. Both are very successful in their careers and wanted to accomplish quite a bit before they became parents.
“We got home [from a trip to Cabo] and about two weeks later I was like, ‘Wait a minute, my boobs are feeling very big and very sore. I haven’t started my period yet.’ So I peed on a stick and immediately it just turned positive,” Jenna told PEOPLE. “The shock and just disbelief was insane. I couldn’t believe it because it wasn’t an easy journey for us to get pregnant.”
In a previous interview, Jenna said she hated it when fans asked her about getting pregnant. She believed it was a rude and intrusive question. If she and Val struggled to conceive, this definitely explains her feelings.
“But everybody tells you, ‘When you just relax and you don’t put the stress on yourself, it happens for you.’ That’s exactly what happened,” the 28-year-old dancer continued. “I think it was exactly when it was meant to be. Our little baby was created with a lot of love. It all seems so magical and meant to be.”
The dancer broke the news to Val in the cutest way
As soon as Jenna Johnson learned she was pregnant, she started thinking of cute ways to let Val in on the news.
“I went and I got these little Baby Jordans, these white sneakers,” the Utah native continued. “I put them in a box that was his size of Nikes. So he didn’t expect anything. Then I put two little pregnancy tests in there. I had been shaking at home waiting for him to come home. So he nonchalantly walked in and he, ironically enough, had a bag of Nikes. I was like, ‘Did you go shopping today?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, I got myself some new sneakers.’ I’m like, ‘No way. I got some too today.'”
“He came over and chucked off the lid of the box and started rummaging through it,” Jenna recalled. “He looked at the shoes and was like, ‘How small are these sneakers?’ Then it hit him and his face … it was priceless.”
Jenna is far enough along that she won’t actually be coming back to Dancing With The Stars this fall. Even in recent interviews, she previously teased that this could be her year. However, she decided to take a step back and focus on her own health for the safety of her baby. However, Val may be ready to come back.
Fans that want to see some cute photos from the couple’s photoshoot with PEOPLE can do so on Jenna’s Instagram page.
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