Serena Williams Gives Birth: Athlete Welcomes 2nd Child With Husband Alexis Ohanian

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Serena Williams and her hubby Alexis Ohanian have welcomed their 2nd child. The tennis superstar, 41, announced the peculiar quality with a TikTok video connected August 22 that showed the mates with their newborn, who is wrapped up successful a blanket, and their older girl Olympia, 5. “Welcome my beauteous angel,” Serena captioned her TikTok. Alexis, 40 confirmed his caller daughter’s commencement connected Instagram and revealed that her sanction is Adira River Ohanian.

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Welcome my beauteous angel

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Alexis’ tweet included snapshots of the household of 4 unneurotic and of Olympia gathering her babe sister for the archetypal time. “I’m grateful to study our location is teaming with love: a blessed & steadfast newborn miss and blessed & steadfast mama. Feeling grateful,” Alexis wrote. “@serenawilliams you’ve present fixed maine different incomparable acquisition — you’re the GMOAT.”

“Thanks to each the astonishing aesculapian unit who took attraction of my woman & our daughter I’ll ne'er hide the infinitesimal I introduced @olympiaohanian to her babe sister,” Alexis added. The father-of-two besides wrote retired a punctuation that read, “Your bid would person been similar a river, your well-being similar the waves of the sea.”

Serena announced that she’s expecting her 2nd kid with her husband while showing disconnected her babe bump successful a stunning, plunging black and achromatic dress astatine the Met Gala successful May. On July 31, she took to YouTube with an affectional video to share her sex reveal with Alexis and girl Olympia — a spectacular drone show that spelled retired they’d beryllium welcoming different girl! The full household was ecstatic arsenic they cheered astatine the quality that Olympia was getting a sister.

Serena has been devoted to her occupation arsenic a ma since Olympia was born. In a 2022 interview, she admitted to being inspired by hard moving moms the satellite over. “I deliberation of what they bash virtually each azygous time to enactment their household and to beryllium a stone for their family,” she told TODAY Parents during a February 2020 interview. “And it helps maine support going. There is not a time that goes by that I don’t deliberation that women are conscionable truly amazing.”