Peta Murgatroyd Says She Suffered a Miscarriage While Husband Maks Chmerkovskiy Was in Ukraine
etonline.comPeta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are reflecting on their losses. The pros open up in a new interview with about Murgatroyd's three miscarriages, including one that happened while Chmerkovskiy was in Ukraine.Murgatroyd recalls being rushed to the hospital as she battled COVID-19, not knowing she was pregnant. «I had no strength.
I couldn't open a dishwasher. I couldn't open the fridge to feed Shai, to get him some toast,» she explains, noting that she called 911 while the couple's 5-year-old watched. «It got so bad that my breath was starting to be affected.
It was really dramatic.»At the hospital, Murgatroyd called Chmerkovskiy so he could hear what the doctor had to say, which was ultimately that — unbeknownst to them — she had been pregnant, but had already lost the baby. «He heard the doctor say, 'You're pregnant,' » she recalls, adding that her husband began to celebrate, not hearing the bad news.«I ultimately had no idea [I was pregnant], which in hindsight was better for my recovery because I didn't have that super joyous moment of, 'I'm pregnant again!' » Murgatroyd explains. «I just had the moment of, 'You lost it.'»Murgatroyd had contracted COVID while visiting Chmerkovskiy in Ukraine in hopes to conceive a baby. «I was like, 'Screw it.
I'm going to fly to you in Ukraine. I'm ovulating soon. Let's make it happen,'» she says.However, when she returned home, her body couldn't handle what was happening. «I felt like I was dying, but then I obviously knew what had happened,» she shares. «It was just all too much for my body and I couldn't do it.
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