‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ Alums Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley’s Family Album
usmagazine.comStronger together. Despite their struggles, The Real Housewives of Orange County alums Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley have maintained their happiness over the years.The pair met while filming the fifth season of the Bravo series in 2009 and got engaged four years later.
While the couple have not tied the knot yet, they did go on to start their family. Smiley, for his part, was already the father of two sons, Gavin and Grayson, from previous relationships.
After struggling to conceive naturally, Rossi opted to give IVF a try.“It was a very, very difficult process for me. A lot harder than I had anticipated,” the former real estate agent exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2018. “The first time that we did it, we actually had 14 embryos that six hours before we were going to implant them, or one of them in me, we lost all of them.”In December 2018, Rossi on an episode of The Doctors that she and the entrepreneur were expecting their first child together.“These symptoms, I gotta tell you,” Rossi quipped at the time. “Man, like I swear, they lie to you about morning sickness.
It’s all day sickness.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesThe duo welcomed their daughter, Skylar Gray, in July 2019.
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