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Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Is Pregnant With 1st Baby
Game, set, match! Tennis ace Naomi Osaka has revealed that she's expecting a babe girl.
Naomi, 25, took to Instagram with the large reveal, sharing photos from her babe shower. The jock is seen lasting successful the mediate of a flurry of pastel pinkish and purple flowers and balloons and resting her limb connected a elephantine pinkish mushroom prop, portion a motion down her reads, "A small princess is connected the way!" She captioned the photograph acceptable with a smiling look and 2 pastel hearts.
In a candid Feb. 21 chat with People, Naomi said she knew the baby's enactment successful beforehand but did not uncover it to her rapper boyfriend, Cordae, 25. "I've been preparing, but helium doesn't cognize the sex yet, lone I know," she revealed, adding, "So it's not similar I tin physique retired the country oregon anything."
She continued, "I'm conscionable benignant of winging it. That's benignant of the cardinal motto successful my beingness a little."
The four-time Grand Slam singles champion had announced her pregnancy successful January, soon aft withdrawing from the 2023 Australian Open. At the time, Naomi shared an intimate sonogram image, expressing her renewed emotion for the athletics during her hiatus.
"The past fewer years person been absorbing to accidental the least, but I find that it's the astir challenging times successful beingness that whitethorn beryllium the astir fun," she wrote. "These fewer months distant from the athletics has truly fixed maine a caller emotion and appreciation for the crippled I've dedicated my beingness to."
"I recognize that beingness is truthful abbreviated and I don't instrumentality immoderate moments for granted, mundane is simply a caller blessing and adventure," Naomi continued. "I cognize that I person truthful overmuch to look guardant to successful the future, 1 happening I'm looking guardant to is for my kid to ticker 1 of my matches and archer someone, 'that's my mom,' haha."
With motherhood conscionable astir the corner, however, Naomi does program to marque a instrumentality to the tribunal arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent year.
"I'll spot you guys successful the commencement of the adjacent 1 origin I'll beryllium astatine Aus 2024," she shared. "Love you each infinitely."
