Naomi Osaka lastly gave followers a have a look at her rising child bump! The pro-tennis participant introduced her first being pregnant with boyfriend Cordae in January. However, on the time, she solely shared a photograph of an ultrasound and some paragraphs about her latest journey.
Since then, she’s shared common and promotional content material together with her 2.7 million Instagram followers, together with her collaborations with Victoria’s Secret and Modern Health. However, Tuesday’s (March 21) publish seems to be the primary time seeing her bump.
The athlete didn’t share a wordy caption with the carousel of photos and a video. Instead, she opted for an emoticon of the Japanese flag, indicating–together with the images’ background–that she’s presently visiting her dwelling nation.
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In the images, Naomi stood in the midst of a walkway or street between tall buildings. She wore flared blue pants, sneakers, and a blue cap. But the star of the imagery was her expanded abdomen poking out from beneath her cropped, forest-green shirt. She appeared away from the digital camera in a single picture, whereas within the different, she flashed a smile immediately at it.
As talked about, Osaka introduced her being pregnant on January 11. At the time, she reassured followers that she’ll be returning to the tennis courtroom in 2024 however will spend 2023 embracing the teachings to come back.
“I know that I have so much to look forward to in the future, one thing I’m looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, ‘that’s my mom,” haha. 2023 shall be a yr that’ll be filled with classes for me…,” Naomi wrote.
In her being pregnant announcement, Osaka additionally identified that she doesn’t assume “there’s a perfectly correct path to take in life.” The athlete was probably referencing her single standing with Cordae. But the pair have been relationship since 2019, opting to maintain their romance largely out of the highlight. Cordae confirmed their relationship standing in July throughout an Ebro In The Morning interview.
“We just kept [our relationship] hidden for a while, kept it quiet. I don’t really like to go public with my personal life, but if you just ask me [if we’re together], it’s be disrespectful to her if I said ‘nah’ at this point.”
They put their relationship on full show throughout a pair’s GQ cowl in 2021, the place Naomi described him as “a romantic dude.”
Last month, Osaka advised PEOPLE that she is aware of the gender of their child, however Cordae doesn’t. So, whereas she’s begun making ready for the kid’s arrival–a date we’re not aware of–the nursery continues to be a piece in progress. Her new motto, she mentioned, is “kind of winging it.”
Still, the first-time mom revealed she’s trying ahead to the motherhood challenges and studying probably the most.
“I think there’s going to be a lot of things that I don’t know, but I have a lot of really amazing people close to me that I can ask questions about. Just a new adventure.”