The glitz of this year’s Met Gala doubled up as the perfect place for expectant celebrity mums to showcase their baby bumps.
One of the most memorable moments of this year’s Met Gala night was tennis star Serena Williams and model Karlie Kloss publicly revealing their pregnancies as they walked the cream, red and blue carpet.
The dress code of the Gala, which took place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, was “In honour of Karl”, which means celebrities were inspired by late Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Serena Williams wore a black mermaid gown, with silver edging designed by Gucci, alongside multiple strings of pearls around her neck and a layered pearl headband.
Video of the red carpet show, her husband, Alexis Ohanian, an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Reddit, gently placing his hand on her midsection. While talking to reporters, Williams said there are “three of us” on the carpet. This would be her second child.
Also, American model Kloss revealed that she is expecting her second child with her husband Joshua Kushner.
She wore a Loewe outfit designed by Northern Irish fashion designer Jonathan Anderson and her black gown featured Lagerfeld’s signature strings of pearls, with a trompe-l’oeil design exhibiting a modern, surrealist edge to the ensemble.
While talking to the press, she said: “I’m so happy, this is the first time I’m sharing my news, so it’s very special,” she told Vogue. I was pregnant last time during the pandemic so I didn’t leave my sweatpants. So this is the first time I’m on a red carpet pregnant and it’s a super special moment, also kind of vulnerable – so I don’t know how to style a belly. I can’t imagine a more special moment.”
