A new type of love! Dancing With the Stars‘ Jenna Johnson Enjoyes every moment with her Val Chmerkovskiy‘s newborn son.
“One week with my little love ✨,” the You think you can dance? The 28-year-old alum captioned a sweet Instagram photo with her baby boy on Tuesday January 17. “I promise I will share more when we are ready. Trying to soak up all of these precious moments and transition into parenthood the best we can.”
Johnson added: “I do finally understand what everyone has been preaching to me… ‘You think you know what love is, and then you have a child.’ My heart is forever his and my world is so much brighter with him in it 🤍.”
Johnson at The WrapWomen’s Power Women Summit, December 2022. Broadimage/Shutterstock
In the photo, the Utah native is snuggling with her infant close by her chest. His face was turned away when the camera captured him. Johnson sported a silver necklace with what appeared to be the letter “R,” causing some social media users in the comments section — including fellow DWTS Performer Ezra Sosa — to wonder whether the initial was a clue at the little one’s name.
“My guy ❤️,” Chmerkovskiy, 36, gushed in response to his wife’s upload.
Witney Carson — who is pregnant with her and Carson McAllister‘s second child — commented, “Love him already!!!!” Meanwhile, longtime DWTS Judge Carrie Ann Inaba The pic has three red heart emojis.
Johnson and Chmerkovskiy tied the knot in 2019 and announced last summer that they were expecting their first child. On January 10, the season 28 mirrorball champion gave birth to her first child.
“Our world is forever changed 🤍 1.10.2023,” she gushed alongside her son’s Instagram debut one day after he was born.
Johnson was the only one who told Johnson about their plans to expand their family before they did. Us Weekly She and the native of Ukraine fell in love even more during her pregnancy. “He’s been such an amazing support during my pregnancy because there’s a lot of things happening to my body that are strange and not normal,” she said in September 2022. “And he just makes me feel like an absolute beauty queen.”
The choreographer teased that Chmerkovskiy would probably “give into everything” as a father. “I already know that it’s gonna be good cop, bad cop and I’m gonna be the bad cop,” Johnson told Contact Us, calling her husband “a sucker” while predicting their parenting attitudes. “He’s gonna be very involved. He is keen to style him. They’re gonna have the matching outfits. We’ve already gone there.”
Johnson had two months before her conception, and was reflecting on her journey to motherhood and the infertility challenges she faced. “The moment my whole world changed,” she captioned an Instagram video in July 2022 which showed the moment she learned she was pregnant. “We had actually stopped trying to conceive for about 6 months to mentally/emotionally give ourselves a break… so the shock, disbelief, and sheer joy in this moment is a memory I will never forget 🤍.”