American tennis legend Serena Williams has given birth to her second daughter, her husband Alexis Ohanian announced on Instagram on Tuesday, adding that mother and daughter were in good health. “Welcome, Adira River Ohanian,” wrote her father Alexis Ohanian, founder of the online forum Reddit, saying he was alongside a “happy, healthy newborn, and a happy, healthy mother.” . Her Instagram post shows the family sitting and smiling, Serena Williams carrying her youngest daughter with one arm, surrounding her eldest with the other.
The 41-year-old athlete, who dominated the planet of women’s tennis for twenty years, appeared pregnant in May on the red carpet of the Met Gala in New York. A year ago, Serena Williams — 23 Grand Slams and four-time Olympic champion — said goodbye to tennis at the US Open, although she later said she would not rule out a return to the courts.
Little Adira River joins 5-year-old Olympia. His birth, in September 2017, had given rise to serious complications for Serena Williams. Reopened caesarean section scar, blood clots discovered in the lungs, hematoma in the abdomen… The native of Michigan had almost died there and had to remain bedridden for six weeks.
