{"id":284532,"date":"2019-12-04T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1099387"},"modified":"2019-12-04T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:40:09","slug":"heres-how-nikki-bellas-first-meeting-with-artem-chigvintsevs-parents-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/heres-how-nikki-bellas-first-meeting-with-artem-chigvintsevs-parents-went\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How Nikki Bella&#8217;s First Meeting With Artem Chigvintsev&#8217;s Parents Went"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.614424410541\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191021\/rs_634x794-191121110708-nikki1.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Nikki Bella, Artem Chigvintsev\" alt=\"Nikki Bella, Artem Chigvintsev\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.790436005626\">\n<p>First comes love\u2014then comes meeting the parents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Such was the case for&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nikki_bella\">Nikki Bella<\/a><\/strong>, who&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1001414\/nikki-bella-is-dating-dancing-with-the-stars-partner-artem-chigvintsev-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been dating her former<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> partner&nbsp;<strong>Artem Chigvintsev&nbsp;<\/strong>for the past year. As she revealed on her and sister&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brie_bella\">Brie Bella<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s podcast, the time came for her to meet his mom, dad and brother during their trip to France\u2014while Artem reunited with them after five years apart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the first time Artem saw his parents in five years and his brother,&#8221; she revealed. &#8220;He was so nervous and excited and emotional&#8230;They all got really emotional when they saw each other. They cried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nikki also had pre-meeting jitters. &#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna lie\u2014I was really nervous,&#8221; the reality star admitted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>Chatting also proved to be a bit of a challenge. &#8220;They don&#8217;t know English. I don&#8217;t know Russian, but somehow we made it work,&#8221; she said, noting&nbsp;<em>Total Bellas<\/em> captured it all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s crazy when you&#8217;re put in the situation where you have a language barrier and you&#8217;re forced to communicate without speaking,&#8221; Nikki said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.734417344173\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"26.558265582656\">\n<p>Ultimately, it sounds like it was a successful first meeting. &#8220;They are the sweetest people in the world,&#8221; she complimented. &#8220;Overall, Artem&#8217;s parents did say they liked me a lot, which is amazing.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Nikki previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1081399\/nikki-bella-shares-intimate-details-about-her-sex-life-with-artem-chigvintsev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed on the podcast<\/a>, Artem&#8217;s parents have also been asking about grandchildren.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His dad asked his mom so his mom could ask Artem when we were having kids,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;I started to think, &#8216;Is it because I&#8217;m old? Did he Google and know I&#8217;m going to be 36 in November and he&#8217;s like, Well those eggs are shriveling up, so she better get pregnant.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, as she<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1080149\/nikki-bella-says-she-s-open-to-marrying-artem-chigvintsev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> told E! News in<\/a> October,&nbsp;&#8220;Marriage and babies are really scary for me right now.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For now, she can check &#8220;meeting the parents&#8221; off the To-Do list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><i>Total Bellas<\/i> returns 2020, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1099387\/here-s-how-nikki-bella-s-first-meeting-with-artem-chigvintsev-s-parents-went?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram First comes love\u2014then comes meeting the parents.&nbsp; Such was the case for&nbsp;Nikki Bella, who&#8217;s been dating her former&nbsp;Dancing With the Stars partner&nbsp;Artem Chigvintsev&nbsp;for the past year. As she revealed on her and sister&nbsp;Brie Bella&#8216;s podcast, the time came for her to meet his mom, dad and brother during their trip to France\u2014while Artem reunited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-10 01:45:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}