Hayley Erbert is hitting the dance floor once again!
On Wednesday, the 29-year-old dancer and husband Derek Hough celebrated her return to the dance studio with a touching black and white photo on Instagram.
In the photo, the couple – who got married in August 2023, few months before Erbert was hospitalized with traumatic brain injury — poses in an empty dance studio as Erbert rests his head on Hough’s shoulder.
“Stepping onto this blank canvas together. Starting to paint again,” the pair captioned their joint post.
The photo appears a few weeks later Erbert and Hough, 38, made their first joint red carpet appearance since Erbert underwent emergency surgery in December.
Erbert attended the event without a headscarf and sported a pixie hairstyle as her dark hair continued to grow following a series of skull surgeries she underwent after suffering a skull hematoma.
Erbert was ran to the hospital on December 6 after she became “disoriented” during a performance on the couple’s show Spectacular Dance Symphony Tour in Washington, D.C. She was diagnosed with a cranial hematoma due to a ruptured blood vessel, which required an emergency craniectomy. This injury eventually led to another invasive and painful surgerywhich replaced a large part of your skull.
ET spoke with Hough in Februaryand he marveled at his wife’s recovery, sharing, “She’s doing great.”
“She really is. I can’t say enough, I really can’t, how inspiring she is,” he shared. “She’s getting better every day. There are still some things we need to work out, but even now, when I look at where we were just a few months ago and where she is now, it’s miraculous. It really is.”
Erbert herself shared a video in February in which she shared an update on her health and talked about how grateful she is to be alive.
“I’m so much better every day, so much progress every day,” she said, sitting next to her husband.
“A new haircut, a new scar, a new bag of fluid on the side of my face that should go away eventually,” Erbert added, laughing. “A new skull. But also, a new outlook on life. Life is so precious. Spend time with the ones you love. Keep them close, because you never know what might happen.”
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