Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian are celebrating seven years of marriage!
On Saturday, Nov. 16, the retired tennis star, 43, and the Reddit co-founder, 41, every shared heartfelt social media posts to mark their newest marriage ceremony anniversary.
Williams’ Instagram put up featured photographs of her household’s costume social gathering from a number of days prior. Ohanian and their 7-year-old daughter Olympia have been dressed as Roman gladiators, whereas Williams and 15-month-old daughter Adira sported colourful seems. One other photograph confirmed the tech govt kissing Adira on the pinnacle as he held her, and one more captured the household of 4 posing along with large smiles.
“7 years has gone so quick… Glad anniversary @alexisohanian. Thanks for being the most effective dad to our ladies @olympiaohanian and @adiraohanian,” Williams wrote. “Thanks for additionally making common November day a dressing up social gathering and making it particular. ❤️❣️.”
Celebrating Williams’ position as a mother, Ohanian commented on her put up: “❤️ Thanks for blessing me with the 2 greatest people we ever met.”
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In his personal Instagram put up, Ohanian mirrored on the couple’s 2017 New Orleans nuptials.
“7 years in the past at present, we acquired married right here,” he wrote. “Now we get to convey these two for beignets. Glad Anniversary 🎉.”
“You are a tremendous mama. I am very fortunate to have met you @serenawilliams @olympiaohanian @adiraohanian,” he added, alongside a snapshot of the relations all collectively, seemingly hanging in New Orleans.
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The couple — who first met in Might 2015 after they have been seated subsequent to one another at an occasion forward of the Italian Open — tied the knot in 2017 at New Orleans’ Modern Arts Middle in entrance of a slew of superstar company together with Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Eva Longoria and fellow tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
Williams and Ohanian have been candid about their romance since then, together with sharing how they hold their relationship contemporary as they father or mother their two daughters and work collectively on a variety of enterprise ventures.
Again in 2021, Williams opened up about her relationship with the enterprise capitalist, admitting in an interview on The Question Game that “marriage shouldn’t be bliss, however it may be in the event you work at it.”
The 23-time Grand Slam winner additionally revealed that motherhood was all the time a objective for her, saying, “I all the time knew I needed children. I by no means knew when however I all the time knew I needed children in some unspecified time in the future.”
“I realized that love is a tremendous feeling. And when you have a chance to really feel it, then it is a particular factor,” she added.
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Earlier this 12 months, the couple had a hilarious viral second as they have been strolling alongside the pink carpet on the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics. In a number of movies and photographs, Ohanian could possibly be seen standing behind his spouse and older daughter, carrying an umbrella to guard them from the pouring rain.
A commentator for Eurosport deemed Ohanian the tennis star’s “umbrella holder,” not realizing he was Williams’ husband.
“[Serena] seems completely unbelievable. She’s acquired somebody simply behind us holding an umbrella,” the commentator mentioned. “These are the degrees you aspire to. To have an precise umbrella holder behind you.”
Ohanian instantly acquired in on the joke, sharing a put up from X that learn: “TV commentator: ‘Serena Williams even has her personal private umbrella holder’. FYI… the ‘umbrella holder’ ’is Alexis Ohanian, her husband. He’s one of many founders of Reddit. 💀.”
In his personal Instagram put up with a photograph of the viral second, the tech founder joked: “I’m additionally Olympia’s private umbrella holder.”
