NEW YORK (Portal) – Serena Williams confirmed she’s expecting baby number two on Monday, and told reporters at the star-studded Met Gala in New York that “there were three of us” on the red carpet she arrived with Husband Alexis Ohanian.
The 23-time Major winner announced last year that she was “evolving away from tennis,” writing in a Vogue magazine article that she wants to expand her family after giving birth to daughter Olympia in 2017.
“Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the three of us to the Met Gala,” Williams said in a TikTok post Monday night.
Williams, a longtime friend of Wintour, the Vogue editor-in-chief and co-chair of the Met Gala, is a frequent attendee of the annual event to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and donned a fitted black dress with a white skirt on Monday.
[1/4] Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian pose at the Met Gala, an annual benefit gala benefiting the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with this year’s theme ‘Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty’ in New York City, New York, U.S. , May 1, 2023. Portal/Andrew Kelly
The theme of this year’s gala was “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” in honor of the late Chanel designer.
She also had a friend on the red carpet, with retired 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer, who attended as co-chair of the event.
Red carpet footage showed Ohanian, an entrepreneur and co-founder of Reddit, gently placing his hand on 41-year-old Williams’ midsection.
The announcement made a return to competitive tennis seem highly unlikely for Williams, one of the most decorated athletes to ever pick up a racquet.
reporting from Ben Kellerman, Amy Tennery and Doyinsola Oladipo in New York; Adaptation by Leslie Adler
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