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The 35-year-old figure skater and Maple Leafs defenceman tied the knot in 2023.
Elizabeth Di Filippo
·Lifestyle & Features Editor
Updated ·2 min read
Tessa Virtue is pregnant with her first child. On Tuesday, the Canadian ice dancer took to Instagram to share photos of her growing baby bump taken during a recent vacation with her husband, Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman, Morgan Rielly.
“Some snaps from my favourites folder from a few weeks back,” the 35-year-old Olympic gold medalist wrote.
The carousel of images included some photos of a picturesque beach setting and the couple relaxing before revealing a selfie of herself to announce the news. In separate photos, Rielly, 30, planted a kiss on Virtue’s cheek and the mom-to-be shared a photo that featured her pregnant belly while her husband entered the surf.
The news prompted excited messages congratulating the two athletes.
“Congratulations! You’re going to be the very best mama!” a follower wrote.
“Congratulations to you both,” another added. “So happy for you, Tessa. You deserve all the happiness”
“Beautiful! Congratulations to you and Morgan,” a follower echoed.
The happy news comes months after the couple announced that they privately tied the knot in 2023. In February, Virtue and Rielly shared photos from their wedding ceremonies with Hello! Canada. The Canadian power couple celebrated their nuptials by hosting an intimate dinner at Noce restaurant in Toronto before travelling to Italy for a romantic reception in Tuscany.
"You know when something is just so meaningful to you that you simultaneously want to just hold on to it and protect it so fiercely, and also shout it from the rooftops?” Virtue told the magazine about opting not to go public with news of her marriage right away.
The couple were introduced by mutual friends and were photographed together in January 2020 when they were photographed at an MLSE charity event. Virtue and Rielly quarantined with one another during the pandemic and relished the opportunity to lean on one another during the early days of COVID.
"We are both kind of in it together,” Rielly said in an April 2020 interview about spending time with Virtue. “We are trying to keep each other sane. I don’t want to say too much about it, but … I’m glad in a time like this that I’m not alone. We all need somebody to talk to.”
Although they are notoriously private, Virtue told Shantelle Bisson on the "Without Losing Your Cool" podcast in January 2023 about the pair's transformational relationship.
"I was very guarded for a long time, and I wouldn't give out my phone number, I wouldn't open up — I was very insular," she shared. "I think that's changed, though. I feel much more open now, and maybe that's just getting comfortable with who I am and what I want, and also, being a good judge of character helps."
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Sofia Richie and her husband, Elliot Grainge, have welcomed their baby girl.
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\"Eloise Samantha Grainge 🤍5•20•24 best day of my life🤍,\" Richie, 25, captioned an Instagram post on Friday, May 24, of her newborn child's feet.
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The model kept her pregnancy quiet until January, at which point she was six months along. “I found out very, very early,” she explained in a Vogue interview at the time. “I was about four weeks pregnant. I was on a trip to Milan for fashion week, and I was going to the Prada show. I was doing a really quick 24-hour turnaround, and I felt terrible but didn’t think much of it. I thought it was jet lag.”
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Richie opted to take a pregnancy test after realizing she was “a few days late on my period.”
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“Elliot was already used to me taking tests randomly,” she recalled, noting that the couple had been “casually trying” since their April 2023 wedding. “He didn’t really flinch when I said I was checking. I was taking one of those really crappy at-home tests, and there was the faintest of lines. I was so used to seeing negatives that I knew when something looked even kind of different.”
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Grainge, 30, picked up more pregnancy tests for Richie, and she subsequently took three at the same time, which all came back positive.
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“He was so excited, and we both cried. It was crazy and overwhelming and so hard not to scream it from the rooftops,” she gushed. “But knowing I was so early, I was so protective — even with my friends.”
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Richie went on to detail why she was so private about her early months as an expectant mother. “Pregnancy is really scary and you want to protect that space,” she said. “I didn’t realize there are so many milestones you have to hit and so many tests you have to take. For me, it was really important to protect our mental health and our space as a couple.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Richie hinted at her due date, teasing that her daughter would be a “Gemini baby.” Individuals with the zodiac sign have birthdays that fall between May 21 and June 20.
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Days after confirming her pregnancy, Richie shared a TikTok video of the baby’s sex reveal. Grainge popped a pink confetti cannon as Richie excitedly ran around and hugged a shocked Grainge. “Sorry to all my neighbors for the horrifying scream,” she captioned the clip.
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