Serena Williams arrived at the long-awaited Met Gala with an extra guest, as the former tennis player announced her second pregnancy on Monday in a message on her Instagram account shortly before her participation in what is known as “the great night of fashion”.
“I was so happy when Anna Wintour invited the three of us to the Met Gala,” Williams wrote, sharing a carousel of photos of her wearing a sleek black Gucci dress, touching her belly and smiling with her husband, Alexis. ohanian.
The big news comes shortly after the athlete, one of the greatest tennis figures of all time, shared in a very personal essay in Vogue magazine a year ago, in which she reflected on how she was handling the decision of her retired from tennis to focus on her family, hoping to give her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, a baby brother in 2017.
The very arrival of Olympia was a complete surprise for Williams, who even confessed that “he never thought about having children”, given the demands of his professional career, especially given “the problems” he would have to reconcile everything if he ever came to do it. Luckily, he has all the necessary support.
“In five years, Olympia has only spent 24 hours away from me,” boasts the winner of 23 ‘grand-slam’, who has always expressed how happy she feels after making the decision to become a mother with the love of her life. , tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian.
“I’ve always been totally focused on my career, but when I had my family and got married, I realized that there are many more things in life, and that’s great,” he said in an interview with People in 2021, where he also he confessed that his outlook on life—especially his concept of what “perception” really meant—had changed.
In his legendary career, Williams won 73 trophies, including 23 ‘major’ ones, with seven Wimbledons, seven Australian Opens, six US Opens and three Roland Garros.