Serena Williams is pregnant with her first baby.
The tennis star, 35, made the announce ment on Wednesday where she showed off her pregnant belly on Snapchat.
Williams wore a yellow swimsuit and said she was 20 weeks along.
The athlete is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, 33.
She’s pregnant! Tennis star Serena Williams showed off her bump on Wednesday as she revealed is 20 weeks along with her fiance Alexis Ohanian’s baby
Soon after she posted the image to Snapchat – as well as to Instagram stories – she deleted it, however.
A source has insisted to TMZ that Williams is indeed pregnant. Her reps have yet to confirm she is with child.
The beauty has been engaged to Alexis since December 2016. He proposed with a large diamond ring, which she showed off in January. They had been dating for only 15 months before he got down on one knee
Williams, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, has been romantically linked in the past to Grigor Dimitrov, Patrick Mouratoglou, Amar’e Stoudemire, Hosea Chanchez, Jackie Long, Common, Colin Farrell, and Drake, among others.
News of her pregnancy comes as a surprise as she has been showing off a flat tummy on social media in the past few weeks. But in early March, she pulled out of Indian Wells and Miami, citing a knee injury.
She is one of the most recognized female athletes in the world: The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on seven occasions, from 2002 to 2017.
The Florida resident also holds the most major titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles combined amongst active players.
The tennis ace is very wealth, too: according to Forbes, she is worth $150m.
Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, to Richard Williams and Oracene Price, and is the youngest of Price’s five daughters: half-sisters Yetunde, Lyndrea and Isha Price, and full sister Venus.
She moved to LA’s rough Compton neighborhood when she was still a toddler. When her career took off, the family moved to Florida.
Serena has made tennis the focus of her career, even though she has appeared on several TV shows (The Bernie Mac Show, ER and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and oversees a fashion line.
But now the star will have to take time off from the game, which she has rarely done since she started competing as a child.