Overview

• Maks Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd met on Broadway in 2009 and later reunited on Dancing with the Stars in 2011, where they started dating.
• They worked with fertility doctors for in vitro fertilization, but their first embryo transfer was unsuccessful.
• They announced in January 2023 that they were expecting their second child naturally and later revealed it was a baby boy.
• On Father's Day 2023, they welcomed their son Rio John who weighed 8 lbs., 6 oz.
• The baby's middle name, John, is in honor of Chmerkovskiy's late father.