DWTS’ Lindsay Arnold Is Pregnant, Anticipating 2nd Child

Child No. 2 on board! Dancing With the Stars‘ Lindsay Arnold is pregnant and anticipating her second baby along with her husband, Sam Cusick.

“Truthfully, it nonetheless feels a little bit bit surreal. It’s simply sort of loopy, however we’re so, so pleased,” the ballroom professional, 28, informed E! Information on Monday, October 24, including that she and her husband, 28, have been “making an attempt for some time” to increase their household. “It’s been one thing that we’ve identified we’ve wished so it was simply such an enormous blessing. We’re excited to increase our household.”

The proud dad and mom welcomed their first baby, daughter Sage, in November 2020. “Essentially the most lovely shock on this very big day,” the truth star introduced by way of Instagram on the time. “Child Lady and mama are wholesome and properly. Extra particulars to return however wished to share this primary pic of our little household.”

Arnold and Cusick, who’ve been collectively since highschool, exchanged vows in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ceremony of their house state of Utah in June 2018. Whereas making an attempt to get pregnant along with her second baby, the ballroom dancer was open about her expertise with a false constructive take a look at.

“If you get a constructive being pregnant take a look at after which begin your [period] just a few days later however your candy daughter is there for you each step of the way in which,” she wrote in an emotional TikTok video in August. “My candy woman. I don’t know what I might do with out her,” the loving mom added within the caption.

The Utah native typically shares glimpses into married life and her journey as a mom by way of social media, however she doesn’t recognize web trolls and mom-shamers. In January 2021, she slammed those that criticized her choice to take a household trip throughout a coronavirus surge.

“I’m FAR from good — imagine me, you don’t have to remind me of that — however why don’t we use our vitality and phrases to be encouraging, as a substitute of all the time in search of the damaging and discovering issues to criticize?” the So You Suppose You Can Dance alum wrote by way of her Instagram Story on the time. “I’m very over it. So, if that’s what you need to do on Instagram, please unfollow me and go away my variety and loving followers alone.”

Later that month, Arnold spoke solely to Us Weekly about her choice to answer the backlash.

“I simply wished to level out that it’s not OK, and it’s by no means going to be OK, to touch upon anyone else’s mother and parenting type,” she defined. “I did that in hopes, to start with … for my sanity. In case you don’t like what I do and what I’m posting about and also you’re sick of the posts otherwise you assume I’m annoying, then don’t observe me. That’s your alternative, you don’t need to observe me.”

She continued: “Greater than something, I stated one thing as a result of I need these individuals who imagine that they’ll sit at their home and touch upon different individuals and attempt to tear different individuals down simply to know that it’s not OK. We have to carry one another up. We have to be supportive. We have to be loving. And if you happen to don’t have something good to say, then simply maintain your mouth shut. [That] is kinda my mentality proper now.”