As soon as a “lady dad,” all the time a lady dad? Alexis Ohanian believes which may be his future, as he and spouse Serena Williams put together for the delivery of their second little one.
“I’m satisfied I’m gonna be a lady dad,” he stated throughout Friday’s episode of the HBO Max and CNN collection “Who’s Speaking to Chris Wallace?” in response to Wallace’s question concerning the gender of their unborn little one (h/t Folks journal). Whereas admitting he and Williams have no idea the gender, Ohanian predicted that “…even when we now have you recognize, 50 extra youngsters they’re all going to be ladies.”
The couple made the “huge reveal” of their second being pregnant on the carpet of the 2023 Met Gala on Might 1, concurrently debuting Williams’ child bump by way of Instagram as she posed in a formfitting robe and cropped jacket by Gucci. Williams later defined they’d chosen to share the information with daughter Alexis Olympia instantly earlier than the gala as a result of she “can’t maintain a secret.”
The Williams-Ohanians aren’t taking any such possibilities with their new child’s gender, selecting to maintain it a secret from even themselves. Whereas it stays to be seen whether or not the household’s latest member additional cements Ohanian’s girl-dad standing, Williams, who stepped again from tennis final yr to increase their household and different enterprise pursuits, is clearly prepared for her subsequent part.
“As of late, if I’ve to decide on between constructing my tennis résumé and constructing my household, I select the latter,” she wrote in an op-ed for Vogue final August. In the identical essay, she disclosed that Olympia’s oft-whispered want was to be a giant sister — and the 5-year-old “doesn’t need something to do with a boy!”
Admitting the selection was painful, Williams mirrored on how motherhood fueled her “evolving away from tennis” (and breaking that elusive Grand Slam document).
“I went from a C-section to a second pulmonary embolism to a Grand Slam last. I performed whereas breastfeeding. I performed via postpartum despair,” she wrote. “I undoubtedly don’t need to be pregnant once more as an athlete. I should be two toes into tennis or two toes out.”
“I’m not going to lie — I undoubtedly have a variety of help. However I’m additionally an extremely hands-on mom,” Williams continued. “The actual fact is that nothing is a sacrifice for me in relation to Olympia. All of it simply is smart.”
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