WASHINGTON — WNBA star Brittney Griner is expecting her first child with her wife Cherelle, the couple announced on Instagram over the weekend.
The photo shows the couple's clasped hands over a set of ultrasound photos.
"Can’t believe we’re less than three months away from meeting our favorite human being," the post's caption read.
According to the post, the baby is due sometime in July.
Griner is one of the WNBA's biggest stars. The 33-year-old re-signed with the Phoenix Mercury this year ahead of the 2024 season.
She is also a household name for the time she spent in a Russian jail.
In 2022, Brittney Griner — who also played pro basketball in Russia — was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after Russian authorities said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil. The U.S. State Department declared Griner to be “wrongfully detained" and engaged in a months-long campaign to free her.
Griner was finally returned to the United States ten months later in a dramatic prisoner swap with Russia.
Less than six months after coming home to the U.S., Griner was back on the court for the 2023 season of the WNBA, getting a standing ovation at her debut for the season.
She also has a memoir chronicling her time in the Russian prison system set for release in May.
Brittney and Cherelle Griner met while attending Baylor University from 2009 to 2013. The couple didn't start dating until years later, according to US Magazine, and married in 2019 after Griner popped the question.