Retired tennis superstar Serena Williams unveiled her latest project on the red carpet at the Met Gala in New York on Monday — she is pregnant with her second child. “Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the 3 of us to the Met Gala,” Williams said on Instagram just before she arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, decked out in a black and white gown, for fashion’s biggest night of the year. Read | Serena Williams exits the stage befitting for her career In the photos, the 41-year-old tennis great is seen posing in a black and white gown with her husband Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Reddit, and cradling the baby bump.
Williams and Ohanian are already parents to Olympia, born in September 2017 . Last year, Williams — who won 23 singles Grand Slam titles and multiple Olympic gold medals throughout her long career — bid an emotional farewell to tennis at the US Open .
“I’m ready to, like, be a mom, explore a different version of Serena,” she said at the time. Last year, in an essay for Elle magazine , Williams described the difficulties she experienced in giving birth to Olympia, eventually via emergency C-section, and how she suffered blood clots in her lungs shortly thereafter. Williams was not the only person to reveal a baby bump at the Met Gala; model Karlie Kloss also confirmed her second pregnancy at the event. Read all the Latest News , Trending News , Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram .