Vanessa Lachey’s Ups and Downs Over the Years: Navigating Nick Lachey Romance After Jessica Simpson Divorce, Emergency Surgery and More

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Like most stars, Vanessa Lachey has experienced highs and lows in her personal life amid her time in the spotlight.After rising to fame in 2003 as a VJ on MTV’s iconic Total Request Live, the Love Is Blind cohost began making headlines in 2006 when she began dating Nick Lachey after his highly publicized and messy divorce from Jessica Simpson.“He was literally in a very public marriage and a very public divorce, and I had to go through all that s—t very publicly and it was very hard for us,” Vanessa later recalled during a 2022 episode of The Ultimatum. “It wasn’t until the moment that he was like, ‘I’m gonna let it go,’ and I said, ‘I’m gonna let it go,’ and we truly committed to each other.

We literally fell deeper and harder than we ever could.”The couple, who tied the knot in 2011 — five years after forming a romantic connection on the set of Nick’s 2006 music video, “What’s Left of Me” — went on to welcome three children: sons Camden and Phoenix and daughter Brooklyn.

However, Vanessa experienced complications with Phoenix’s premature birth and had to undergo scary emergency surgery.“I was in the hospital on bed rest and then my water broke.

I was only 29 weeks,” Vanessa revealed on Dancing With the Stars in 2017, several months after her youngest child’s birth. “I was on the operating bed and I looked up and I didn’t know a single face and I remembered thinking I hope the baby’s OK and don’t worry about me.