Serena Williams shares moment she informed daughter she’s going to be a big sister

Serena Williams made a grand entry at this 12 months’s Met Gala when she revealed her second being pregnant on the purple carpet. It additionally seems the tennis champion had been preserving the excellent news from her daughter and big-sister-to-be, Olympia – although she ultimately bought to know.

Williams took to her Instagram to share a video of the second she and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, informed their daughter the great information. “Olympia doesn’t know proper now that I’m pregnant, so the massive reveal might be on the Met, after which earlier than we go away, I’ll inform Olympia,” the 41-year-old mentioned within the Could 5 video. 

“The rationale I haven’t informed her is as a result of she will be able to’t preserve a secret,” she jokingly added. The video was reportedly shot not too lengthy earlier than Williams and her husband revealed they had been pregnant for the second time, per PEOPLE.

Previous to attending the Met Gala, Williams additionally took to Instagram to share pictures she took along with her husband that confirmed her child bump. “Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the three of us to the Met Gala,” Williams captioned.

In a first-person essay for Vogue final 12 months, Williams opened up about evolving away from tennis and her want of turning into a mom for the second time. She additionally revealed that the “thought of having youngsters” by no means crossed her thoughts throughout the early levels of her profession.

“There have been occasions after I’ve puzzled if I ought to ever convey youngsters into this world, with all its issues. I used to be by no means that assured or comfy round infants or youngsters, and I figured that if I ever did have a child, I’d have individuals taking good care of it 24/7,” she wrote.

Regardless of having “a number of assist”, Williams mentioned she’s an “extremely hands-on mom” in the case of taking good care of Olympia. “In 5 years, Olympia has solely spent one 24-hour interval away from me. This previous 12 months, whereas I used to be recovering from a hamstring harm, I bought to choose her up from college 4 or 5 days per week, and I at all times appeared ahead to seeing her face mild up when she walked out of the constructing and noticed me ready there for her,” she acknowledged.

“The actual fact is that nothing is a sacrifice for me in the case of Olympia.”