Sage’s little sister! Dancing With The Stars’ Lindsay Arnold and husband Sam Cusick are having a child lady.
IT’S A……….. ???? GIRL!!!! ????????,” the skilled dancer, 28, captioned a video by way of Instagram on Tuesday, November 1. “We’re past excited to carry one other candy lady into our household and so so completely satisfied that Sage may have a sister ?.”
Within the clip, Arnold and Cusick, 30, place neckties over their eyes as a crowd cheers them on. The couple’s daughter, Sage Jill, who turns 2 on Wednesday, November 2, then will get carried out in a brilliant pink costume. Because the pair take off their blindfolds, pink smoke explodes round them, revealing they’re having one other child lady.
“Are you critical? One other lady!” the Utah native gushes as her hubby seems at Sage and asks, “Are you going to have a sister?”
Previous to the large reveal, Arnold took to social media to tease the intercourse of her toddler.
“This can be a face of a lady who simply came upon the gender of her child,” Arnold wrote by way of her Instagram story alongside a selfie of herself trying shocked simply two days after the being pregnant announcement in October. “I don’t wish to go away you all hanging for too lengthy but additionally wish to dwell with this enjoyable secret just a bit longer ?❤️ will share quickly so keep tuned!!”
The DWTS professional first introduced that she and her hubby have been anticipating their second baby collectively earlier that very same month.
“Child #2 coming Might 2023 ??,” she wrote by way of Instagram alongside a carousel of heartwarming household pictures. “We’re past grateful and really feel so blessed to be including a brand new addition to our household and Sage can’t wait to be an enormous sister.”
The choreographer additionally opened up about the way it feels turning into a mom of two. “Truthfully, it nonetheless feels just a little bit surreal. It’s simply type of loopy, however we’re so, so completely satisfied,” Arnold advised E! Information on the time. “It was simply the very best feeling,” she stated. “My husband and I’ve been making an attempt for some time now. And it’s been one thing that we’ve recognized we’ve needed so it was simply such an enormous blessing. We’re excited to broaden our household.”
Arnold and Cusick’s first daughter, Sage, was born in November 2020. “Probably the most stunning shock on this very special occasion,” the fact star introduced by way of Instagram on the time. “Child Woman and mama are wholesome and properly. Extra particulars to come back however needed to share this primary pic of our little household.”
Whereas she loves being a mother, the fact star has been open about her earlier fertility struggles over time.
“While you get a constructive being pregnant take a look at after which begin your [period] a number of 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 lady. I don’t know what I’d do with out her,” the loving mom added within the caption.
The ballroom dancer has additionally handled web trolls and mom-shamers, responding to those that criticized her for taking a household trip throughout a COVID-19 surge in January 2021.
“I’m FAR from excellent — consider me, you don’t must remind me of that — however why don’t we use our power and phrases to be encouraging, as a substitute of all the time on the lookout for the destructive and discovering issues to criticize?” the So You Suppose You Can Dance alum wrote by way of her Instagram Story. “I’m very over it. So, if that’s what you wish to do on Instagram, please unfollow me and go away my form and loving followers alone.”
Later that month, Arnold spoke solely to Us Weekly about her choice to answer the backlash.
“I simply needed 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 fashion,” she stated. “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 suppose I’m annoying, then don’t observe me. That’s your alternative, you don’t should observe me.”
She continued: “Greater than something, I stated one thing as a result of I would like these individuals who consider that they’ll sit at their home and touch upon different folks and attempt to tear different folks down simply to know that it’s not OK. We have to carry one another up. We must be supportive. We must be loving. And in the event you don’t have something good to say, then simply maintain your mouth shut. [That] is kinda my mentality proper now.”