Whatever Happened To The Most Memorable Say Yes To The Dress Couples?
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On TLC's "Say Yes to the Dress," soon-to-be brides visit a store in hopes of finding their dream wedding gown (and that it'll be within budget). In the original "SYTTD" (as opposed to the many spinoffs (like "Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta," "Say Yes to the Dress: UK"), brides visit the iconic Manhattan bridal salon, Kleinfeld. There, they drape themselves in tulle, run into designers, and beg their bridal consultants for more "bling."
Long after the premiere of "SYTTD" in 2007, the reality show has become an empire, with brides and non-brides alike addicted to the drama of the whole dress-shopping experience. But "SYTTD" isn't just about trying on dresses. There are family dynamics to follow, tear-jerking stories of brides who've endured massive struggles before their special day, and even a few celebrity brides.
It's easy to get emotionally invested in a bride and her family, and wonder when the episode is over, "Hey, what ever happened to them? Did that bride get the surgery she needed? Did that young bride-to-be get the wedding of her dreams? Is that one kooky couple still together?" Here's what the most memorable brides from "Say Yes to the Dress" are up to now.
The Bionic Bride started a family
Season 17 bride-to-be Rebekah Marine walked into her Kleinfeld appointment with an amazing accessory: a hyper-advanced prosthetic arm. Known publicly as the "Bionic Model," Marine was born without a right forearm. In her "SYTTD" episode, she explained that, while she once struggled with her disability, she now uses it as a platform. Two years prior to her bridal appointment, she received a sophisticated prosthetic arm (complete with moving metal fingers) and she started modeling with it. Soon her career took off and she started modeling for top designers and even became a motivational speaker.
As she shared, "My whole message is about living with uniqueness and celebrating that," (via Instagram). Marine chose a tulle and lace mermaid gown, one of Randy Fenoli's designs, for her big day, and her gorgeous wedding (complete with a new gold wedding prosthetic) was featured at the end of the episode. But what happened after the vows? Well, Marine is still thriving. She continues to model and tour as a motivational speaker. She's also going strong with her husband, and the couple has two children.
This bride is lucky her husband fired her
When bride-to-be Emily began her appointment, she gushed about her fiancé, David Gotterup. She mentioned that he worked in the mortgage industry and that they met when she was working for him. "He fired me so he could date me," she shared, as reported by Forbes. The appointment got stressful, though, when Emily had a hard time sticking to her $5,000 budget. Eventually, she settled on a $6,500 Pnina Tornai. It was over budget — but she was willing to splurge for her beach wedding.
After their wedding, however, it seems the couple only ran into more financial problems. In 2015, Gotterup was charged on an 11-count indictment for scamming homeowners through a mortgage loan modification scheme, reportedly conning a total of $2.5 million out of homeowners in a five-year period (via Forbes). In 2017, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. While hard time can't be good for a marriage, at least fans can appreciate how lucky Emily was to get out of the scamming mortgage company while she could.
The Boston Marathon bride amputated her leg and ended her marriage
Season 12 bride Rebekah Gregory came into Kleinfeld with just a month to find her dream dress — but that short time frame wasn't her biggest challenge. Gregory walked into the salon on crutches, recovering from injuries sustained from the 2013 Boston marathon bombing. When Gregory came to Kleinfeld, she'd already endured more than 15 surgeries, as noted by the New York Post.
While Gregory got a dream dress from Kleinfeld (and a fairytale wedding), after the show, she and husband Pete DiMartino didn't get the "happily ever after" they'd hoped for. After just 10 months of marriage, the pair separated. A few months earlier, she'd been forced to make the difficult decision to have her leg amputated.
Soon, however, things started looking up. Gregory wrote a book — the aptly titled, "Taking My Life Back." Then in 2015, she remarried, and, in 2016, they welcomed a daughter, Ryleigh. "I've learned that you enjoy every part of the ride when you experience it with your best friend," Gregory said in an Instagram post celebrating her and her husband's two-year wedding anniversary. "What we have built together, I wouldn't even trade for two real legs."
This twin now works in both comedy and law
Attorney Amy Pokora and her twin sister, Emily Wilfinger, are practically "SYTTD" regulars. Between dress shopping and fittings, the two have been on a total of four episodes of "SYTTD" (plus the spinoff series "Say Yes to the Dress: Randy Knows Best"). But when Pokora first stepped into the store in Season 10, she was simply shopping for her wedding dress.
While Pokora insisted on a sexy gown, her sister tried to convince her to get a less revealing dress. When Pokora found a fitted gown with a sheer panel at the waist, her sister asked, "Would you want your attorney to wear a see-through dress?" Pokora then tried a panel over the sheer dress, but in a Season 11 episode, she went in for a fitting and had it taken out.
These days, this Kleinfeld bride is still an attorney, and she and her husband have their own law practice, Lewis and Pokora. While law may pay the bills, it seems she's found her true passion: standup comedy. According to her website, she's focusing on her comedy career now, booking shows in her home state of Arizona and even New York City.
Every little Cheetah Girl's dream
Former Disney star Sabrina Bryan is known for her part in Disney Channel's "The Cheetah Girls." But in her Season 17 "SYTTD" episode, Bryan was looking to be more of a princess than a pop star. From the beginning, she knew she wanted a Hayley Paige dress but didn't know what style of gown to opt for. "I'm coming to Kleinfeld with a very specific knowledge of my designer," she said. "I just don't know what my silhouette is." Eventually, Hayley Paige built a custom look, and Bryan went away with both a ballgown and a second fitted dress.
After Bryan's October 2018 wedding, she was busy giving a voice to newlyweds everywhere. In an interview with KTLA 5 Morning News, she pointed out that, while there's so much advice out there for couples planning weddings and those expecting babies, there's not much to help enrich married life before kids. So, she worked on a blog and podcast to give advice about enjoying being a newlywed. "Eventually we will have kids and that will be another amazing journey," Bryan shared, "but I'm really excited to see what being just a newlywed means." Since then, she and her husband have indeed had two kids.
Sutton Foster headed back to Broadway
When, in Season 12, actor Sutton Foster went searching for a gown at Kleinfeld, her bridal consultant Lisa recognized early on that this bride would need something different. When the bride-to-be tried on a $6,800 Pnina Tornai gown, she loved it instantly, excitedly telling Lisa and Randy, "I've never worn anything like this." Since her "Say Yes to the Dress" episode aired, Sutton made some big changes. Soon after her wedding, Sutton took a break from performing on Broadway and took the starring role in TVLand's "Younger" and the series was a hit. In the years since, her acting career has remained strong.
In June 2019, she posted a picture on Instagram at an event for Season 6 of "Younger," saying, "I really am the luckiest." In March 2019, Sutton announced her return to Broadway, starring opposite Hugh Jackman in "The Music Man." Sutton's marriage continued humming happily along when she and her husband, Ted Griffin, adopted their daughter, Emily Dale, in 2019.
But then, Sutton divorced Griffin in 2024 — a year after Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness announced that their marriage of over two decades was over. Soon, Sutton's name started appearing in some scandalous headlines accusing her and Jackman of cheating on their spouses. "It was apparently Broadway's worst-kept secret," a source dished to Us Weekly in November 2024. Two months later, Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster's somewhat strange romance was confirmed by photos of the pair getting their PDA on.
The caped bride filed for divorce
In Season 15, bride Jasmine Solaperto went into Kleinfeld (with her fiancé, Brian Sullivan) knowing she wanted a sexy and unique dress. As Sullivan told consultant Lisa, "Dude, there's no budget. We brought the Amex." So, of course, it was an appointment to remember. The bride-to-be ended up with a sexy romper with detachable skirt, plus a $5,000 dramatic cape. Five weeks later, in November 2016, the couple wed at the Grand Canyon.
However, the marriage was short-lived. In February 2018, Solaperto announced in a YouTube video that she and Sullivan were filing for divorce. In the video, Solaperto explained, "I fell into a health coaching program which literally like changed my f**king life." Apparently, this coaching helped her realize that her marriage wasn't working. She said, "Looking back, in retrospect, I know that there were so many red flags and I just ignored them."
These days, Solaperto seems to be healing. In one Instagram post from June 2019, she said, "When I remove the emotions and stories AND show the f**k up for myself in the way I know I desire to, ABUNDANCE becomes my new normal."
This bride split from her country singer beau
In Season 8 of "Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta," bride Morgan Petek had a hard time choosing a dress. Petek was marrying country music star Jerrod Niemann, and she wanted the dress to be perfect for her high-profile wedding. She tried some gowns and loved one of them, but, as soon as it seemed like she'd found the one, Petek had other ideas. "As soon as it really sunk in that this is the dress that I'm gonna get married in, it just did not feel like the right dress," Petek confessed. Still, Petek decided on a custom Lazaro gown, and the pair married in October 2014.
In February 2019, however, the two filed for divorce after just four years of marriage, making that last-minute dress hesitation seem prophetic. The couple said in a statement, "We have learned and grown into the people we are today. We wish each other all the best in the future." Since their divorce, Petek has remarried and is now a mom of one.
The Girl With No Job was fired
Claudia Oshry is known for her popular Instagram account Girl With No Job, but, in Season 15 of "SYTTD," she was known for her fast-talking sassiness. Her quick wit and take-no-crap attitude helped her cut down dresses faster than consultant Lisa could get them off the hanger. "This is the first time I might be afraid of my bride," Lisa said. Luckily, Oshry found her dress and wore it to her 2017 wedding.
Months after Oshry's wedding, however, news broke that right-wing and anti-Islam commentator Pamela Geller was Oshry's mother. Soon, racist tweets made by Oshry resurfaced, and, in March 2018, Verizon's Oath canceled her social media talk show, "The Morning Breath." Oshry quickly issued an apology on social media. She said, in a tearful video (via People), "I need to just come right out and say how sorry I am. It's not cool, it's not funny."
Later, Oshry started a new show called "The Morning Toast," and it seems many of their fans accepted her apology. Oshry's Girl With No Job account is still going strong and she even tours.
Corbin Bleu and Sasha Clements are a Disney fairytale
In Season 14, Corbin Bleu (of Disney's "High School Musical") and fiancée Sasha Clements came into Kleinfeld's floating on a cloud of love. Young, beautiful, and totally smitten, they shopped for a dress together in preparation for their July 2016 wedding. After trying some dresses, Clements found a perfect fit in a custom Pnina Tornai gown, which Pnina announced she would now call "The Sasha."
But how are Bleu and Clements doing now? This sweet couple seems to be going strong — plus, Bleu is doing well with his post-Disney career. While Bleu isn't exactly at "High School Musical" co-star Zac Efron's movie-star level, he's still acting and dancing. He's been working on Broadway and has even been nominated for awards for his roles in "Kiss Me Kate" and "Anything Goes." Here's a child Disney star who did right.
In January 2019, Sasha posted a picture on Instagram of them snuggling on the couch, writing in the caption, "Sparks joy." Too cute!
This Olympic bride found herself in a scandal
When Olympic runner Dawn Harper appeared in Season 10, consultant Allison immediately asked if she had her Olympic medals with her — and, of course, she did. When they moved on to dress shopping, Harper said she wanted a ball gown. "On the track, I'm halfway naked all the time," she said, "so I would like to, you know, just wear something that makes me feel like a woman." In the end, she left with a strapless, princess ball gown.
Then, in 2017, her name made headlines again. However, she hadn't won another medal. Instead, she was in the middle of a doping scandal, as reported by NBC Sports. She served a three-month ban from the track after taking a prescribed blood pressure medication, failing to recognize that it contained a banned substance.
Still, things started looking up when, in April 2019, Harper and her husband welcomed a baby girl. And it didn't take long for Harper to get back on the track post-baby, as proved in an Instagram video of her running in June 2019. When it comes to her marriage, she and her husband are doing well, and they welcomed a second child.
Omarosa tried to take photos at the White House
Omarosa Manigault Newman is known for her time on "The Apprentice" and for working as part of Donald Trump's initial White House administration, but, in 2016, she was just another bride in Kleinfeld. And there, Omarosa found the rosy dress of her dreams in a $6,400 ballgown by Ysa Makino. But there was drama after she left the store.
She got married at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., and, after the reception, she and her 39-person bridal party showed up unannounced to the White House and tried to take photos. That same year, in December 2017, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that Omarosa had handed in her resignation. However, Fortune reported that she didn't quit — she was fired. And the firing reportedly "didn't go well." Yikes.
By 2018, Omarosa authored a No. 1 New York Times bestseller — "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House." These days, it appears things have slowed down. She's still married, and she's been busily promoting her book and making occasional TV appearances — both on the news and on reality TV shows like "House of Villains."
This country singer has stayed strong
When Whitney Duncan was on a 2014 episode of "SYTTD," she introduced herself as a country music singer, but viewers might know her best from her time on reality shows. She was on Season 5 of "Nashville Star" in 2007, she was on "Survivor: South Pacific" (which is where she met her future husband Keith Tollefson) in 2011, and she and Tollefson teamed up for "The Amazing Race" Season 25. While at Kleinfeld, Duncan found a fitted lace gown for her wedding.
These days, she seems to have given up the reality show life. She's worked as a fitness trainer and, even though her singing career may have taken a backseat for a little while, she never gave up on her dreams. In November 2018, she posted a #WaybackWednesday on Instagram of herself at the CMAs in 2009, writing, "This girl didn't know that she (& many many other talented females) would still be struggling to be heard almost a decade later."
Still, she didn't lose hope, as she said, "This ole girl ain't giving up yet." In 2021, she released "Heartbreaker," and in 2022, she released the EP "I'm the Fire." She and Tollefson are still together. They have a son named Duncan and a daughter, Vada.
This paralyzed groom and his wife fostered children
In Season 17 of "Say Yes to the Dress," Emily Summers and fiancé Chris Norton came in looking for a dress that wasn't too wide at the bottom. This was important because Norton, who is in a wheelchair, planned on walking with Summers back down the aisle at the end of their ceremony. Consultant Debbie found Summers a form-fitted gown, and, by the end of the episode, viewers saw Summers assist Norton out of his wheelchair at their wedding and walk back down the aisle together.
Since their 2018 wedding, the two have been busy, as they raised a family of six foster children. Summers (now Emily Norton) gushes over her foster kids on Instagram. In one post from May 2019, she described one of her foster daughters as having "the biggest heart" and said, "I am so proud I get to be her mom."
Summers and Norton also authored a book, "The Seven Longest Yards," and celebrated their first year of marriage in April 2019. It seems nothing can stop them.
A throuple became a couple before one final divide
When digital creator Carly Yashira and actor Kassandra Lee Diaz visited Kleinfeld in search of a pair of wedding gowns in a Season 20 episode of "Say Yes to the Dress," they were memorably joined by a third party: Diaz's husband, Paoulo Quispilaya. The revelation that the throuple was engaged was understandably met with a "wow!" from bridal consultants Krissy and Candace, but the latter followed up by acknowledging, "Listen, it's 2021. Anything can happen." Because Diaz had already walked down the aisle with Quispilaya, she wanted Yashira's dress to have a bigger "wow factor" than hers. But Candace's words weren't exactly prescient, as one crucial thing didn't happen: The two stunning brides staying within their $8,000 budget.
Yashira chose a $5,100 Tony Ward Couture dress with a dramatic train, while Diaz couldn't resist splurging on a $4,500 mermaid gown from the same designer. Worse, their 2021 "SYTTD" episode hadn't even aired yet when the two women announced that Quispilaya had left the throuple. Yashira and Diaz remained together and began creating social media content, and the latter discussed what went wrong with Quispilaya in a 2023 episode of the "Girl, Let Me Tell You" podcast. "There was an insecurity within his point of view of being a provider, being a man," she said.
That very same year, Diaz and Yashira broke up after five years together. Diaz admitted it was hard not just because she was still in love when they called it quits but because she had also lost a friend. As for Yashira, she revealed in a YouTube video, "Over the last few months, we were talking here and there. Currently, we have cut off almost all communication. We aren't on bad terms, but it's just what we both need to heal."
The show's 'modern day Marie Antoinette' thinks her gown belongs in a museum
Season 7 bride Kelly Dooley came into Kleinfeld knowing exactly what she wanted, and she got it: A silver Pnina Tornai with an eye-watering $34,000 price tag. Dooley, a fitness apparel company owner whose sports bras have adorned the bods of A-listers like Britney Spears and Kendall Jenner, was described as a "modern day Marie Antoinette," and her wedding theme was indeed inspired by the tragic French queen. Apparently, this intrigued TLC — the network also filmed her and her husband, Andrew Kalley, for its "Say Yes to the Dress: The Big Day" spinoff series.
However, Dooley didn't appreciate the episode's editing, later writing in an article for HuffPost, "It was very clear while they were filming that they not only wanted me to portray me as Mama's Little Princess but that they also wanted to make it seem as though Andrew's opinion didn't count." Still, her fairytale wedding was as magical as she hoped it would be, with Dooley concluding by vowing, "We are one of the few couples in Manhattan that will in fact live happily ever after."
When she spoke to Bustle in 2023, the "SYTTD" star was still satisfied with how her wedding turned out, even though her "Bridezilla" portrayal made her a target of internet trolls. "I wouldn't have done anything differently," Dooley confirmed. "The only thing I would have done differently is not marry the person I married." So, yeah, she didn't exactly get her fairytale ending. These days, she's a mom who bills herself as a "stylist to the anointed" on the website for her company, Luxe Rebellion Styling Haus. She also still owns that memorable dress, promising, "I'm going to end up putting it in a glass box at a museum."
Queen Precious-Jewel Earth Zabriskie-White appeared on another reality show
Queen Precious-Jewel Earth Zabriskie-White isn't just notable for having one of the most marvelous monikers ever uttered on "Say Yes to the Dress" (or any reality show for that matter). While speaking to Cosmopolitan in 2017 about why she wanted to appear on the show, Queen explained, "I always thought, 'I don't see any gay people on the show! They need more black lesbians on the show!" She had undergone gastric-bypass surgery weeks before she visited the bridal salon and revealed that she expected to weigh far less on her wedding day. Despite having some reservations about the feathers on an $1,100 beaded gown, the fit sold her on the look.
Queen lost a total of 150 pounds, but confessed to Cosmopolitan that changing her eating habits was incredibly hard for her. Instead of avoiding food, however, she consoled herself by cooking and eventually opened her own catering company, Indulge Catering, LLC, with her wife, Jacqueline "Jay" Zabriskie-White. Her Indulgent Essential Spices product line also earned Queen a spot on the reality competition "Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars" in 2023, and her Pomodoro sauce won a 2024 NC Specialty Foods Best in Taste Award.
Same-sex marriage wasn't yet legal nationwide when Queen's "SYTTD" episode aired in 2013, so the North Carolina resident and her wife had to obtain their marriage license in another state. "On 4/12/13, Queen Precious-Jewel Earth Zabriskie and I made our love official with a ceremony, but we actually got married on 10/11/12 in her home town da Bronx NY! That date was non-negotiable for her, lol!" Jay gushed in a 2025 Instagram post celebrating one of the happy couple's two anniversaries.
This Celebrity Big Brother star still wants her dress to be black
Model Camila Lincowski, aka Cam Li, had some TV credits to her name when she appeared on Season 16 of "Say Yes to the Dress," including "Celebrity Big Brother UK" and "Ex on the Beach." On top of her reality fame, viewers likely remember Camila's desire for a more unconventional bridal gown. "I want a black wedding dress, so it can match my black little heart," she said ahead of her appointment, during which the outspoken star continually butted heads with her mother over her heart's dark sartorial desire. Camila ultimately lost that battle and got hitched in a $5,300 white Alessandra Rinaudo gown. In 2023, she told Bustle that people still recognize her mom from their 2018 episode of the show.
Camila left her reality career behind when she and her husband, mortgage lender Brent Lincowski, moved to Las Vegas, where she became a realtor. Her clients have included several Las Vegas Raiders. "People think it must be crazy working with NFL players but it's more about guiding them through the process and working with their financial advisors, so you're dealing with a lot of people and a lot of different interests," she clarified to the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2023. Camila and Brent have two daughters. Their eldest might inherit the much-bickered-about bridal gown too — and it could even get a makeover. "Hopefully, one day I'll pass it on to her," Camila told Bustle. "Then, we'll dye it black or whatever we've got to do."
This Duggar in-law ditched her husband and married someone else
Anyone who watched the TLC series "19 Kids and Counting" knows that the Duggar family has a strict dress code, and Jessa Duggar Seewald was hellbent on enforcing it when she joined her sister-in-law, Jessica Seewald, at Kleinfeld. In a 2020 episode of "Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta," both Jessica's mother-in-law-to-be and Jessa, the fifth eldest of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar's 19 kids, kept expressing concern over how low the necklines were on the gowns Jessica tried on. Regardless, she happily left the salon with a look that definitely didn't meet her entourage's modesty standards. At least it impressed her groom, who later told Jessica, "I love the cut. I love just the — chest area."
Cleavage is heavily frowned upon by both Jessa and the rest of her Christian fundamentalist family. However, the Duggars consider divorce an even bigger taboo — Anna Duggar wouldn't even leave Jessa's oldest brother, Josh Duggar, when he was jailed for a truly heinous crime. So, with Jessa being that judgmental about a low V-neck, just imagine what she thought when Jessica ended her two-year marriage in 2021.
She and her now ex, Dwight Phillips Lester, were both police officers who originally met at work. In legal documents obtained by the U.S. Sun, Jessica cited financial mismanagement as one reason she filed for divorce, along with "constant verbal altercations creating an extremely intolerable home environment." Mere months later, she got hitched again to Joseph Coates, and the couple welcomed a baby girl in 2024.
Elle King got married in secret, skipped another wedding, and endured a traumatic divorce
In 2017, "Say Yes to the Dress" fans watched "Ex's & Oh's" singer Elle King, the daughter of actor Rob Schneider, somehow try to find something more glamorous than her red carpet outfits to wear for her wedding. On the show, she revealed that she got engaged to her fiancé, Andrew Ferguson, just 12 days after they initially met, but King fell in love with her $4,900 beaded Stephen Yearick dress even faster, growing emotional and declaring it the winner as soon as she saw it in the mirror.
On the day the singer-songwriter was supposed to walk down the aisle in her dream dress, in April 2017, King wrote on Instagram, "Skipped out on my wedding." Instead, she was at an Eagles of Death Metal concert. A month later, she announced in a since-deleted post that her marriage was over. King also confirmed that she and Ferguson had married in secret less than a month after they met, telling People, "You don't know a person after three weeks. I didn't know him, and he didn't know me."
King and Ferguson's marriage took a dark turn before their split too, with TMZ reporting that he was arrested for domestic violence for physically attacking King. However, he was never charged with a crime. King struggled with depression and substance use after the ordeal, which made her more cautious about marriage. However, she told People, "I still, of course, believe in love." And King later found it with tattoo artist Daniel Tooker. While the couple broke up less than two years after the birth of their first child, they later reconciled and welcomed baby no. 2 in February 2025.
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A teen bride appalled viewers but she didn't go through with her wedding
Some fans were horrified to learn that a 17-year-old bride-to-be named Kara Cosby had been featured on "Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta" in 2012. Years later, her episode became a hot topic of discussion on the FundieSnarkUncensored subreddit. "She is still a child. This is so sad," one user wrote. "This is tragic. [...] It's obvious she's still heavily co-dependent on her creepy father's opinions," read another comment. In the episode, Kara noted that her family had a lot in common with the Duggars. For one thing, her relationship began with a courtship, which her dad described thusly: "The fiancé basically dates the whole family."
Kara and the young man in question planned on kissing for the first time on their wedding day, and her father was concerned about her dress showing too much skin. "No alleys, no valleys," was his rule, and Kara wasn't about to leave her appointment with a dress that didn't meet with his approval. Concerned fans got an update from her in a 2022 TikTok video, during which she revealed that she moved to Georgia during her engagement, with the plan being for her fiancé to later join her there.
However, Kara met someone else and fell in love. "We got married pretty quickly, because we just knew it was right," she confirmed. They were still happily married, and it sounded like she was in a much better place overall. Of why she recalled so few details of her "SYTTD" experience, Kara sadly admitted, "I blocked out a lot of that part of my life."
Dancing with the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff didn't get to dance at her wedding
When she appeared on "Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta" back in 2012, Karina Smirnoff already had one failed engagement under her belt — she and her fellow "Dancing with the Stars" pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy called it quits in 2009. Her second attempt to make it to the altar was with MLB pitcher Brad Penny. After trying on a few different Lazaro dresses, Smirnoff settled on a voluminous ball gown that was notably unlike any of the skimpy sequined costumes she wore on the show. Unfortunately, she didn't get to greet her groom in it, as Smirnoff and Penny broke off their engagement before her "SYTTD" episode even aired.
An insider told Us Weekly at the time that Smirnoff "loves being in love," and she wasn't letting a second failed engagement discourage her from seeing if the third time would be the charm, with the professional dancer getting engaged to actor Jason Adelman in 2015. By then, Penny had been married to Oklahoma City Thunder dancer Kaci Cook for two years too. When Smirnoff and Adelman split just two months after he proposed, she told People, "I'm in therapy now."
Smirnoff elaborated, "I need to figure out what I do to get myself in these situations because I don't think I can have another heartbreak. I can't go through it again and stay sane and stay normal." At the time of this writing, no wedding bells have rung for Smirnoff just yet. However, the "DWTS" star did achieve another dream in 2020 when she welcomed a baby boy named Theo. His father is believed to be dancer Justinas Duknauskas.