Artem Chigvintsev and Nikki Bella with their son Matteo Artemovich.Photo: Nikki Bella/instagram
Nikki Bellais enjoying some quality time with her family.
On Wednesday, theTotal Bellasstar, 37, posted several photos of herself cuddling with fiancéArtem Chigvintsevand their 8-month-old sonMatteo Artemovichon her Instagram, dubbing the trio her “little fam.”
“I love my little fam so much 🥺😅🥰,” she wrote alongside a slideshow of pictures, which showed Chigvintsev, 38, holding their child as Bella gave the little boy a kiss.
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In another post, Bella shared four selfies of herself with the toddler.
“Me + Teo : May be the most tired I have felt in my life but it’s definitely the happiest and most blissful I have ever been,” she captioned the shots. “I love you my sweet Matteo, SO much! ❤️.”
The mother of one also showed some love to Chigvintsev in a third post, in which the couple can be seenhugging after Bella’s workout.
“How my sweat sessions are after @coachscottthom kicks my ass lol I need the full body love!!” she wrote.
The former professional wrestler has also been candid about how she and Chigvintsev have evolved since becoming parents.
In November, Bella revealed during an appearance onThe Tamron Hall Showthat the couple experienced issues in their relationship when Chigvintsev left to filmDancing with the Starsjust months after they had welcomed their son.
“I was so supportive and pushing him out the door to go doDancingand then I realized once he left, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, what did I do? Like I need him.‘And so it was really hard,” Bella recalled.
When hostTamron Hallasked Bella if they were in therapy, she responded, “We’re going to start after the season and it’s mainly just to be amazing parents and knowing how to balance parent life out and also our own relationship. Because Artem and I don’t ever want to have a struggle. You know,we plan on being married.”
In January, Bella shared onKaitlyn Bristowe’sOff the Vinepodcast that they hadentered couple’s therapy.
According to Bella, one of the things the couple are working on is communication because when Chigvintsev “gets really stressed, he doesn’t realize his tone.”
“We’re actually in therapy for this,” she explained.
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Bella, who was partnered with Chigvintsev on season 25 ofDWTSprior to their romantic relationship, also said that he was “super strict” during their time together on the dancing competition.
“I remember during dress rehearsals sometimes I’d be like, ‘Is he mad at me?’ " Bella remembered. “It would make me feel really off. It would just be his tone. It was hard, it was hard on me a lot.”
Bella reconnected with Chigvintsev after her breakup withJohn Cenaand the two made their relationship official in July 2019. Theygot engagedduring a romantic trip to France that November.
The pair plan toget married on Thanksgiving weekendlater this year.
source: people.com
