Serena Williams has given start to her second daughter, her husband introduced Tuesday, including that each have been “completely satisfied & wholesome” after the tough start of the tennis star’s first youngster left her preventing for her life. “I am grateful to report that our home is teaming with love: a cheerful & wholesome new child lady and completely satisfied & wholesome mama,” her husband, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, posted on Instagram alongside {a photograph} of himself with a beaming Williams hugging each her daughters.

Addressing his 41-year-old spouse, he advised her she had “given me one other incomparable reward — you are the GMOAT,” a brand new maternal twist on the sporting accolade Best Of All Time.

The brand new child is named Adira River Ohanian, he added.

In 2017 Williams, one of many biggest gamers in historical past, gained the Australian Open — one in every of her many Grand Slam titles — whereas she was pregnant with the couple’s first youngster, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.

However months later she almost died after she developed a blood clot in her lung after giving start to Olympia by way of emergency C-section.

She spent six weeks bedridden after the pulmonary embolism, however battled again to make her return to competitors simply 5 months later in Fed Cup doubles alongside her sister, Venus.

Williams retired from tennis final 12 months after turning into a celebrity for a technology.

“I am able to be a mother and discover a special model of myself,” she mentioned after her remaining match final 12 months.

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