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See Serena Williams’ epic gender reveal party in Florida — after husband ‘trolled’ her

Serena Williams attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. Photo by DNphotography/Abaca/Sipa USA
Serena Williams attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. Photo by DNphotography/Abaca/Sipa USA DNPhotography/Abaca/Sipa USA

Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian really went big for their gender reveal party on Monday at their Palm Beach Gardens mansion.

The outdoor bash, with guests including older sister Venus and dad Richard, had pink and blue balloons everywhere, a rainbow arch that read “Our Next Great Adventure,” plus local food trucks, a dunk tank and an epic light show.

The retired tennis star, 41, announced her pregnancy during the Met Gala in May. She and Ohanian’s first child, daughter Olympia, is 5. Over the weekend on Instagram, the Grand Slam icon teased her fans, asking what they thought she was having and telling them to “drop your guess below.”

On her live YouTube page before the blessed event, Williams admitted she was “obviously team pink,” adding she didn’t have a “contingency plan” if it were a boy.

Later in the same video, Ohanian, 40, admits that he going to play a trick on his famous wife, having her slice open a cake with neither pink or blue inside, but yellow.

“I want to troll her and Olympia into thinking that this is the reveal of Jellybean [the family of three’s nickname for the fetus],” said the tech mogul. “She will cut into this cake, probably be disappointed and hopefully appreciate my troll.”

All was likely forgiven after Ohanian arranged for an epic light show in the night sky, with drones up above slowly spelling out the word “GIRL.”

This story was originally published August 2, 2023 at 12:49 PM.

Madeleine Marr
Miami Herald
Celebrity/real time news reporter Madeleine Marr has been with The Miami Herald since 2003. She has covered such features as travel, fashion and food. In 2007, she helped launch the newspaper’s daily People Page, attending red carpet events, awards ceremonies and press junkets; interviewing some of the biggest names in show business; and hosting her own online show. She is originally from New York City.
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