Serena Williams poses nude on Vanity Fair cover ... and reveals planned date for tennis return
The 23-time grand slam single champion bares her pregnant body and tells all about her love story with fiancé Alexis Ohanian
Serena Williams unveiled her pregnant body in a nude Vanity Fair cover photo Tuesday and detailed the story of her romance with fiancé Alexis Ohanian in an article for the magazine.
The 23-time grand slam singles champion is shown in profile facing left with her right arm covering her breasts and her pregnant stomach proudly displayed, a small waist chain the only item she wore in the image by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz.
Williams said in the story she learned she was pregnant just before the Australian Open, which the 35-year-old American won to set the open era record for grand slam singles titles and move one shy of Margaret Court’s all-time mark.
Williams revealed in April she was pregnant and would not play again this year. In the story, she insists she will return to tennis in January, which would allow her to defend her Australian Open crown.
“I don’t think my story is over yet,” she told the magazine.
Williams and Ohanian, the 34-year-old co-founder of social media website Reddit, will be married this year after their child is born, according to the article. They announced their engagement last December after meeting in 2015 in Rome.