(Miami) American tennis legend Serena Williams gave 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, calling himself 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 world of women’s tennis for two decades, appeared pregnant in May on the red carpet at 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 U.S. Open, though she later said she wouldn’t 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 cesarean 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.
