{"id":32466,"date":"2023-05-02T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=32466"},"modified":"2023-05-02T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:01:35","slug":"tennis-icon-serena-williams-announces-pregnancy-at-met-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/05\/02\/tennis-icon-serena-williams-announces-pregnancy-at-met-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis icon Serena Williams announces pregnancy at Met Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serena Williams has confirmed she is pregnant with baby number two, telling reporters at the star-studded Met Gala in New York that there were \u201cthree of us\u201d on the red carpet, where she arrived with husband Alexis Ohanian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 23-times major winner announced last year that she was \u201cevolving away from tennis\u201d, writing in a Vogue magazine article that she wanted to grow her family after welcoming daughter Olympia in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"064c44dc-f0cb-40b3-9b4b-38eefecad135\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/sep\/03\/serena-williams-retirement-tennis-us-open-2022\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9eb058e31be5a47b064c6b2b38ddf68084275744\/273_865_4680_2810\/master\/4680.jpg?width=460&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=64528072b3178fbddcb7d7592b281f5b\" alt=\"Serena Williams waves to the crowd after her loss to Ajla Tomljanovic\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/sep\/03\/serena-williams-retirement-tennis-us-open-2022\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWas so excited when Anna Wintour invited the three of us to the Met Gala,\u201d Williams said in a TikTok post on Monday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams, a long-time friend of Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor-in-chief and Met Gala co-chair, is a frequent attendee of the annual event to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute and on Monday donned a form-fitting black gown with a white skirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The theme of this year\u2019s gala was \u201cKarl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty\u201d, in honour of the late Chanel designer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian reveal they are expecting their second child together. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MetGala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MetGala<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0F8TNgaBla\">pic.twitter.com\/0F8TNgaBla<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/etnow\/status\/1653187877290000384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Footage from the red carpet showed Ohanian, an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Reddit, gently resting his hand on the midsection of the 41-year-old Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement made a return to competitive tennis appear highly unlikely for Williams, one of the most decorated athletes ever to pick up a racket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow tennis great Roger Federer, in a black tuxedo and dark tortoiseshell sunglasses, and former US Open champion Andy Roddick, in a similar black dinner suit but paired with formal slippers, were among a handful of high-profile athletes in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American basketball star Brittney Griner, who is back in the US after being detained for nearly 10 months in a Russian penal colony, and China\u2019s twice Olympic champion freestyle skier Eileen Gu were also at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams has confirmed she is pregnant with baby number two, telling reporters at the star-studded Met Gala in New York that there were \u201cthree of us\u201d on the red carpet, where she arrived with husband Alexis Ohanian. 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