Naomi Osaka reacts to pregnancy speculation one year after ‘traumatic’ birth
Naomi Osaka is not pregnant with baby No. 2.
The tennis star took to TikTok over the weekend to hit back at recent rumors that she has a baby on board.
The athlete, 26, highlighted a comment from one of her followers on Sunday, which read, “She [is] expecting again. I wish [her] many mo[re].”
In response, Osaka said, “I just wanna say, I’m not preggos, but if I was, I wouldn’t want many more because giving birth was traumatic.
“But thank you, though, for your blessings,” she concluded.
The Olympian similarly captioned the social media upload with a sarcastic, “ty for your best wishes? I guess?”
When Osaka welcomed her and rapper Cordae’s baby girl, Shai, in July 2023, the umbilical cord was wrapped around the infant’s neck.
The new mom described the scary experience to InStyle five months later, calling it the “worst pain of [her] life.”
Her pregnancy, which made headlines shortly before her baby girl’s arrival, was also “rough.”
“I don’t think people know how hard pregnancy is,” she told the outlet in December 2023. “No one really talks about it as much.”
That same month, speculation swirled about her and Cordae, 26, calling it quits.
However, Osaka did not address the gossip while gushing to People about the “good foundation” they have built.
“We just respect each other’s opinions,” she said last year. “And if we disagree on something, we talk it out. At the end of the day, we both want what’s best for Shai.”
The couple were first romantically linked in 2019, with Cordae admitting to GQ that he didn’t know his partner was a big deal when they met.
“It’s not my sport,” he said in 2021. “If you asked me about tennis, before being immersed in it because of Naomi, I could only give you Venus and Serena Williams. Because they’re just a part of the culture.”
