Pregnant DWTS pro Peta Murgatroyd shines while out for coffee and cake in Los Angeles

Dancing With The Stars pro Peta Murgatroyd shined bright when she stepped out in Los Angeles for coffee and cake this week.

The 36-year-old is currently expecting her second baby with her handsome husband Maksim Chmerkovskiy, a fellow Dancing With The Stars staple.

Covering her burgeoning belly in skintight workout clothes, she bundled up against the winter chill in flannel and a wool coat.

Her latest outing comes after she proved on her Insta Stories that she is committed to maintaining her exercise regimen throughout her pregnancy.

She posted a series of gym updates, twisting from side to side to ease her bump as she posed in the mirror.

Peta took the opportunity to show off the black Aritzia jumpsuit she was wearing, saying the outfit was “so comfortable, so soft, so buttery.”

She and Makes welcomed son Shai in 2017 and Peta has been open about her heartbreaking fertility struggles while trying to have another child.

This month she announced: ‘After 2 years of constant struggle and anguish, 3 miscarriages and one failed embryo transfer… we have a healthy bun in the oven.’

She celebrated the new development with a stunning photo shoot of her showing off her burgeoning baby bump in lingerie.

She spoke in an interview with People magazine in mid-January that she was nearly 18 weeks pregnant, saying, “All natural, it just happened.”

Peta was about to attempt a second round of IVF when she received the news that she had conceived.

“I didn’t even know I was pregnant for so long until I really felt sick. I danced with him Dancing with the stars,’ she said.

“I started to feel weird, I started to feel a little sick and a little bloated and I didn’t want to get tested for weeks,” Peta confessed candidly.

She was near the “six or seven week” point of her pregnancy when she finally got tested and “I think it was the fastest positive result I’ve ever seen in my life.”

The Auckland-born hoofer said: ‘It just came up super fast and it surprised me. It has been completely different from my previous pregnancy. It wasn’t like she was jumping for joy and screaming from the rooftops, “Oh my gosh, I’m pregnant. Yay!”

Peta, who has suffered three miscarriages, said: “It was more like, ‘Okay, let’s see what happens because I’ve been through this four other times and it hasn’t worked.” So I was very skeptical. I didn’t even tell Maks for a while.

At the moment he knows the sex of the baby, as he ‘can’t wait’ and needs to ‘know these things’, but he has not decided whether to make the information public.

Taking the news to Instagram, he wrote: “It gives me immense joy to finally announce that @maksimc and I are expecting our Chmerkovskiy #2.”

She shared: “After 2 years of constant struggle and heartbreak, 3 miscarriages and one failed embryo transfer… we have a healthy bun in the oven :)) It was a shock to all of us and we found out just before I enter to”. for my second round of IVF.’

She said: ‘I want to thank ALL of YOU who have been on this fertility journey with me from the very beginning. I feel like I am sharing this news with my extended family. Thank you for sharing your stories and advice to help me get through my IVF cycle and thank you for the plethora of encouraging comments and direct messages… I read them all.’

Peta concluded: “This news has brought extraordinary joy to our family and we have so much to be thankful for…as of June 2023.”

in a wreck People interview last year, she revealed how “petrified, embarrassed and embarrassed” she felt when she miscarried for the first time.

The loss occurred in the fall of 2020 in a Whole Foods bathroom, leaving her “sobbing” and “whining” for hours while sitting on the toilet.

When she miscarried again nine months later, she was about to fly to New York to tell Maksim that she was pregnant, and instead had to tell him that she had lost the baby.

In October 2021, when her husband was in his native Ukraine to work on his version of Dancing with the Stars, Peta suffered a third miscarriage.

At the time, she was so sick with COVID-19 that she “couldn’t open a dishwasher” or even “open the fridge to feed Shai, to get her some toast.”

After passing out in her son’s room, Peta, who at the time didn’t even know she was pregnant, was rushed to the hospital and told she had lost a baby.

Peta eventually discovered that she had a hormonal disorder called polycystic ovarian syndrome that was affecting her fertility.

She announced last June that she was trying IVF, stating: “For the first time in almost two years, I feel emotional. I am in a much happier place. I have answers.

“I have no more words than hope and positivity,” said her husband. ‘I cross my fingers that this works.’