06/29/2016 at 01:00 PM ET
Season 22 of Dancing along with the Stars wasn’t straightforward for Peta Murgatroyd, yet that had nil to do along with her companion Nyle DiMarco.
“I was so sick,” Murgatroyd says in the latest issue of PEOPLE. “Nyle would certainly notice me falling asleep on the couches and on the floor of the rehearsal studio. He’d check out me like, ‘What’s going on?’ And I’d go, ‘Oh, I’m merely tired.’ ”
But in naked truth the pro dancer, 29, was suffering from nausea, a adverse effect of being pregnant along with her very first child along with fiancé Maksim Chmerkovskiy, 36.
Murgatroyd had planned on sustaining her pregnancy a secret until she entered her 2nd trimester. yet due to the fact that she’d come to be pregnant merely a couple of months in to the season, it was inconceivable to hide by the Could 23 finale.
“I had to make certain my costumes were hiding it as considerably as possible, yet a couple of Individuals noticed,” says Murgatroyd, that went on to succeed the season along with DiMarco.
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In fact, DiMarco had known for weeks prior to he specified it throughout semi-finals week in mid-May.
“Nyle in fact came up to me and wrote me a text that said, ‘I know,’ ” Murgatroyd, that is now in her 2nd trimester and currently enjoying life on the road along with Chmerkovskiy as he and his brother Valentin travel the country in Maks & Val: Live on Tour. “I merely lost it laughing since he had known for regarding 2 weeks and didn’t claim everything to me.”
But merely since the glad couple were sustaining the news private doesn’t mean they were sustaining it for good quiet.
“The very first Individuals we told were our parents. We skyped them and they were all of extraordinarily elated,” says Murgatroyd, that is due in January and is planning her wedding to Chmerkovskiy for next summer.
“They have actually been waiting for this for so long. My parents have actually wanted me to be pregnant for so long and Maks has actually been wanting a baby for a long time. I can’t wait to be a mom!”
For much more on Chmerkovskiy and Murgatroyd’s glad news, choose up the most up to date issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
— Patrick Gomez
