TURN ON THE SIREN. RING THE BELL. SCREAM UNTIL YOU CAN SCREAM NO LONGER. FOR SERENA WILLIAMS IS PREGNANT. I REPEAT: SERENA WILLIAMS. IS. PREGNANT.
That’s right: The tennis great announced on Snapchat Wednesday that she is 20 weeks pregnant with her first child. Her rep later confirmed to The Huffington Post that she is due this fall.
Do you know what this means? It means that our nation’s two queens, Beyoncé and Serena Williams, are both pregnant at the exact same time.
Even more astonishingly, it means that Williams was pregnant when she won the Australian Open in January.
The news comes just a few months after Williams announced that she’s engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian ― appropriately enough in a post on her fiancé’s site:
I came home
A little late
Someone had a bag packed for me
And a carriage awaited
Destination: Rome
To escort me to my very own “charming”
Back to where our stars first collided
And now it was full circle
At the same table we first met by chance
This time he made it not by chance
But by choice
Down on one knee
He said 4 words
And
For context, here are some of Williams’ other recent Snaps:
What wonderful news amid the chaos that is life.
This post has been updated to include confirmation from Williams’ publicist.
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