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Chad Michael Murray was everyone's teen crush in the 2000s. This is his life now.

Chad Michael Murray is in the market for a minivan.

That's what the former teen heartthrob joked after announcing that he and his wife Sarah Roemer are expecting their third child together.

He and his family, including an eight-year-old son and six-year-old daughter whose names they have never shared publicly, are currently travelling the world – with Roemer's bump growing as they traverse from the Eiffel Tower to Thailand.

"We travel this world as a little wolf pack – this baby's been everywhere already and she's not even on the outside yet," he wrote alongside a video of their travels.

He also shared a photo of Roemer on Instagram.

"Third little one on the way. Gonna need a bigger car... Minivan time," he wrote on his Story.

Murray, 41, and Roemer, 38, began dating after meeting on the set of the action-thriller series Chosen

Image: Instagram/@rooeemer.

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They are notoriously private, becoming married in a secret wedding ceremony in January 2015 that was not announced until after the fact. 

They welcomed their first child, a son, four months later and their second child, a daughter, was born in March 2017.

Roemer often indulges her followers – many of whom joke about her living out everyone's teenage dreams – online, readily acknowledges her husband's history as a heartthrob.

Image: Instagram/@rooeemer.

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Millions of teenagers had a crush on the actor after he was catapulted to international fame on the American drama series, One Tree Hill, where he played a high school basketball player.  

Before then, he had also gained recognition for his roles in Gilmore Girls and Dawson's Creek. And in 2004, he played the lead male role alongside Hilary Duff in A Cinderella Story

In May 2004, the actor became engaged to his One Tree Hill co-star Sophia Bush, who played Brooke Davis. But after just five months together, their marriage ended.

Bush opened up about the marriage in a 2018 radio interview, saying: "Everybody’s been 22 and stupid."

"[The marriage] was not a thing I actually really wanted to do," the actress admitted. 

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"Because how do you let everybody down... when you have bosses telling you that you’re the only person who gets a person to work on time, and 200 people either get to see their kids at night or they don’t because our days start on time?

"People won’t let it go," Bush continued. 

"Can you imagine if the idiot you dated when you were a senior in high school - if people still would not stop talking to you about?"

Murray refuted the inference the marriage was a publicity stunt, saying he "would never marry for any reason but love."

Later that year, months prior to his divorce being finalised, Murray became engaged to Kenzie Dalton, an extra on One Tree Hill

After a seven-year engagement, they broke up in 2013.

Chad Michael Murray and his then-fiancee Kenzie Dalton in 2006. Image: Getty. 

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Chad Michael Murray dipped in and out of the acting pool after One Tree Hill finished up. He has appeared in TV shows like Chosen, Agent Carter and Scream Queens and films like To Write Love on Her Arms.

In 2018, the 37-year-old debuted on Netflix's Riverdale as the leader of a cult, Edgar Evernever.

He also turned to Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas films, starring in half a dozen since 2018.

Much like his character on One Tree Hill, Murray also dabbled in some writing.

In 2011, he released a novel titled Everlast. In November 2016, Murray announced a second novel, American Drifter: An Exhilarating Tale of Love and Murder, which was released in 2017. The latter was a fiction thriller, that followed the story of an army veteran and a journalist who are being chased by drug lords in Brazil. 

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He currently stars as the lead in Canadian drama series Sullivan's Crossing.

In 2018, the actor revealed what his daily life with his family of four — soon-to-be five — looks like. 

This article was originally published on July 12, 2020 and has been updated.

Feature image: Getty.

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