WNBA star Candace Parker expecting baby with wife Anna Petrakova and says daughter Lailaa Nicole Wil

May 2024 · 2 minute read

WOMEN'S NBA star Candace Parker has announced that she secretly married her partner and that the pair are expecting a baby together.

Parker announced the great news while celebrating hers and Anna Petrakova's two-year wedding anniversary.

"Happy Anniversary Моя жена! 2 years ago, I got to marry my best friend in front of our close family and friends," she wrote on Instagram, seemingly revealing for the first time that she married her partner.

"My heart could have exploded. I cried like a baby…. To know me or you is to know our love. This journey hasn't been easy. I am proud of us and what we have built and who we have grown to become both individually and together."

She then went on to thank her wife for treating her daughter, Lailaa Nicole Williams, as her own before revealing even more exciting news.

"We've always dreamed of growing our family….it's surreal that we now have a baby on the way!," she revealed. "Lailaa is pumped to be a big sister!

"You couldn't be more beautiful! Glowing, while understanding that I have to constantly love, kiss, and talk to your belly AND yes… play Jay-Z for the baby (Goose knows "Song Cry" already by hear !) I can't wait to embark on this next chapter in life with you!""

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The Chicago Sky captain also shared a photograph of herself with Petrakova and Lailaa. Lailaa could be seen holding Anna's baby bump.

The social media dedicated also included photographs from the couple's wedding, with the pair wearing white dresses and family and friends holding up sparklers as they embraced.

Parker is already a mom to 12-year-old Lailaa, who she welcomed back in 2009.

On Monday, Parker shared a highlight reel of her daughter's basketball career before she played in her first seventh-grade basketball game.

"It's bittersweet, you are growing," the athlete wrote, before saying "from playing in confetti and following me around the world while I dribble a ball. TO now picking it up on your own!"

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