Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy‘s 2-year-old son, Rome, simply skilled one among his first main milestones.
“And identical to that, we now have a BIG BOY ✨🥹😭🩵,” Johnson captioned pictures from Rome’s first haircut through Instagram on Wednesday, August 20. Johnson’s submit featured snaps of Rome smiling earlier than and after his lengthy locks have been chopped off, in addition to a candy clip of him reacting to his new look.
“Rome, what do you suppose? Do you’re keen on your hair?” Johnson requested her son, to which he replied via a mouthful of crackers, “Yeah.”
A number of of Johnson and Chmerkovskiy’s Dancing With the Stars colleagues shared their reactions within the submit’s feedback part. “I CANNOT😍😍😍,” Daniella Karagach wrote, whereas Sharna Burgess posted, “I’m crying 😭 he’s excellent ❤️.”
“Oh my goodness!” fellow DWTS professional Alan Bersten stated in a remark of his personal.
Johnson’s DWTS Season 33 companion, Joey Graziadei, commented, “He seems to be nice!!” His fiancée, Kelsey Anderson, additionally gushed over Rome, writing, “OMGGGGGGG 😭🥹.” (Johnson and Graziadei received the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy on the present’s most up-to-date season, which aired final fall.)
Johnson shared one other picture from Rome’s haircut through her Instagram Story on Wednesday, captioning the snap, “My child😭.”
Johnson and Chmerkovskiy met whereas working collectively on DWTS and went on to tie the knot in 2019. They turned dad and mom with the beginning of Rome in January 2023.
Rome’s haircut comes one month forward of the Season 34 premiere of DWTS. ABC has not introduced which professional dancers, together with Johnson and Chmerkovskiy, will return to the ballroom. This season’s introduced movie star contestants embrace TV persona and conservationist Robert Irwin, social media influencer Alix Earle, and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars Whitney Leavitt and Jennifer Affleck.
Final month, Johnson defended herself towards a social media person who slammed her for sharing a photograph of Rome utilizing a bottle. She posted a screenshot of the web troll’s response to the picture through her Instagram Story, which learn, “Means too outdated for this fats r***** to have a bottle,” per a number of shops.
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In response, Johnson wrote, “What world are we residing in?? I perceive that I put my life on the market publicly, which I actually need to STOP doing when extraordinarily impolite and dangerous messages towards my child are despatched to me. However are we okay as a society? Additionally, you your self are a MOM!!!! Would you need me, a complete stranger, to DM you this about your baby? As a result of he’s ingesting from a bottle??? Like WHAT ON EARTH IS HAPPENING.”
She concluded, “I really like my social media neighborhood on right here and actually really feel so linked to every of you. However sufficient is sufficient with the unhappy trolls/bullies on right here. Please unfollow me IMMEDIATELY and respectfully get a life.”
Dancing With the Stars, Season 34 Premiere, Tuesday, September 16, 8/7c, ABC