Serena Williams and her bulging baby bump cover the lastest issue of Vanity Fair Magazine.
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The tennis star sits for a beautiful nude photo spread captured by photographer Annie Leibovitz, as she discusses her first pregnancy and finding the love of her life with fianc?, reddit founder Alexis Ohanian.
Last January, on the eve of the Australian Open, Serena Williams handed her fianc?, Alexis Ohanian, a paper bag containing six positive pregnancy tests. It was just the latest surprise in an unlikely pairing: the world?s greatest tennis player and the geek co-founder of Reddit. From their first date?a magical six hours in Paris?to their plans for the baby?s arrival, this is the full love story.
More photos + excerpts below…
Serena Williams and fianc?, Alexis Ohanian
She is the beyond remarkable tennis player, although all superlatives are pointless. He is in the high cotton of high tech as the co-founder of the Web site Reddit, which has 234 million unique monthly users.
They became engaged last December, after first meeting roughly a year and a half earlier, then found out in January that Serena was pregnant. They will be married in the fall after the birth of the baby.
?If you would have told me last year in October or November that I would have a baby, not be pregnant but have a baby, I would have thought you were the biggest liar in the world. This is kind of how I am right now.
This is happening sooner than later, and it?s going by so fast.?
Alexis and Serena still try to see each other every weekend in what will be a bi-coastal relationship until marriage. Alexis is looking forward to the marriage. Serena, with tongue floating somewhere in cheek, says, ?I?m trying to enjoy the little freedom I have left.?
They are largely homebodies when together, cooking with each other?although Serena is very proprietary about her tacos?playing the game Heads Up!, in which player No. 1 calls up a name on their cell-phone screen, places it on forehead, and player No. 2 gives clues to see if player No. 1 gets the right answer before time runs out.? There is another version, in which the clues are in the form of impressions, and Serena tries earnestly, even though, according to Alexis, she is frankly terrible, whereas Alexis takes pride in doing some pretty good ones.
Serena says she will return to the tennis circuit as soon as January because ?I don?t think my story is over yet.?
Perhaps the prospect of a continued love story is as realistic as Serena?s insistence that she will return to the pro tennis circuit as soon as January because ?I don?t think my story is over yet.?
But if she says she will be back in January, she will be back in January. Anyone who has met Serena for more than five seconds knows that.
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