Peta Murgatroyd Reveals She Suffered 3 Miscarriages in 2 Years, Details ‘Dramatic’ Loss While Maks Chmerkovskiy Was in Ukraine
usmagazine.comA heartbreaking few years for Peta Murgatroyd and Maks Chmerkovskiy. The Dancing With the Stars pros are opening up about suffering three miscarriages in two years, including when he was away working in Ukraine.“I had no strength.
I couldn’t open a dishwasher. I couldn’t open the fridge to feed Shai, to get him some toast. It got so bad that my breath was starting to be affected.
It was really dramatic,” the 35-year-old dancer recalled to People about her October 2021 miscarriage.While Chmerkovskiy, with whom she shares 5-year-old son Shai, was overseas, Murgatroyd was hospitalized.“I thought [the doctor] was going to reveal some really bad news.
I was like, ‘What’s wrong?’ His face dropped. He said, ‘Did you know you were pregnant?’” she explained, noting she “had no idea” she was expecting. ”Which in hindsight was better for my recovery because I didn’t have that super joyous moment of, ‘I’m pregnant again!’ I just had the moment of, ‘You lost it.’”Murgatroyd revealed that when she had the miscarriage, she had recently battled COVID-19 after a trip to visit Chmerkovskiy in Ukraine. “I felt like I was dying, but then I obviously knew what had happened,” she continued. “It was just all too much for my body and I couldn’t do it.
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