Serena Williams, 41, proudly shows off her baby bump in a matching two-piece Gucci set…after revealing she’s expecting a girl

Serena Williams showed off her maternity style on her Instagram account on Monday.

The retired tennis star, 41, was featured in four photos on Instagram where she proudly showed off her growing baby bump.

‘I’ve waited a long time… for this moment to come…. I am destined for anything,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion wrote in the caption of her Instagram post.

All four photos of Williams’ Instagram post showed the tennis star showing off her growing baby bump in a green and yellow striped two-piece Gucci set consisting of a green and yellow striped short-sleeved crop top and a matching green and yellow striped miniskirt .

On the front of her green and yellow striped short-sleeved cropped shirt were several Gucci logos in yellow thread all over the center.

What’s Gucci: The retired tennis star’s matching two-piece set consisted of a green and yellow striped short-sleeved crop top and a green and yellow striped miniskirt

Williams opted to go barefoot as she completed her outfit with a gold watch on one of her wrists.

The four-time Olympic gold medalist (three in women’s doubles and one in women’s singles), wore her long hair dyed blonde and lightly styled down.

In the first photo, Williams looked straight at the camera as she leaned against a sliding glass door, which overlooked a balcony with a beautiful view, with several palm trees in the background.

In the second photo, Williams stood with her back to the camera as she admired the view the balcony offered as she looked through the sliding glass door.

Meanwhile, the third image was a zoomed-in shot of the former tennis star leaning against the sliding glass door while showing off her growing baby bump.

In this photo, the sun could be shining through the sliding glass door at Williams, giving her a golden glow as she modeled her matching two-piece Gucci set.

The fourth and final image was a side profile shot of Williams looking away from the camera.

During her pregnancy, Williams shared multiple updates on her Instagram account about her growing baby bump, including several posts where she revealed how she works out during pregnancy.

Big: All four Williams photos showed a balcony overlooking a beautiful view, with several palm trees in the background.

Baby shower slash gender reveal: Williams’ (right) Instagram post comes nearly a week after she posted a video to her YouTube channel of her “Baby shower slash gender reveal” party, where she and her husband, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian (center), revealed that they are expecting their second daughter together. The couple are already parents to a five-year-old daughter named Olympia (left)

Fake Reveal: Alexis fooled Serena and Olympia by revealing a fake gender from cutting a frosted cake. Instead of the inside of the cake being blue (indicating the baby would be a boy) or pink (indicating if the baby would be a girl), Alexis had the inside of the cake yellow

Baby Number Two: Before hitting the red carpet for the Met Gala last May, Williams and Ohanian shared the news that they were expecting their second child

The retired tennis star’s Aug. 7 Instagram post comes almost a week after she posted a video to her YouTube channel from her “Baby shower slash gender reveal” party, where she and her husband, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, revealed that they have their second daughter together.

The couple shared the news of Williams’ pregnancy ahead of their appearance at the 2023 Met Gala last May. Williams and Ohanian are already parents to a five-year-old daughter named Olympia, who was born two months before their wedding in November 2017.

At the “Baby shower slash gender reveal” party, the couple initially planned to reveal the gender of their second child by cutting into a frosted cake. However, Ohanian pranked his wife when he revealed in a private video that “inside (the cake) is yellow (not blue or pink),” adding, “I’m doing this because I want to troll (Serena) and Olympia by trying to think this is the reveal.’

Once Williams cut into the cake and saw that it was yellow, she pretended to smear the piece of cake she had cut into her husband’s face.

Before the actual gender reveal, Ohanian released a high-tech drone show that revealed, “It’s a…” as Williams and Olympia watched eagerly, before it was revealed to be a girl, to which Serena responded by holding both her hands up in the air. the air of excitement.

The due date of the couple’s second daughter has not yet been made public.