Brittney Griner and Cherelle who tied the knot in June 2019, shared the news in a joint Instagram post on Saturday, April 13.
Alongside a photo of the WNBA star Brittney Griner and Cherelle holding hands next to an ultrasound of their child, Cherelle wrote that she “can’t believe we’re less than three months away from meeting our favorite human being.”
She also shared that the baby is due in July, adding the hashtags, “#BabyGrinerComingSoon” and “#July2024.”
The couple’s happy news is a long time coming, as they first met more than a decade ago while attending Baylor University from 2009 to 2013 — though they did not start dating until years later.
In June 2019, nearly one year after Brittney popped the question to Cherelle, the expectant parents tied the knot.
Then, in February 2022, the couple’s world was turned upside down after Brittney was detained in Russia where she was supposed to play in an off-season basketball game for drug charges. After months in Russian custody and a weeks-long trial, the WNBA star was sentenced to nine years in prison.
Following the sentencing, Cherelle reacted to verdict in an interview with CBS Mornings, telling Gayle King, “I’m like, in no world would I ever [have] thought, you know, our president and a foreign nation’s president would be sitting down having to discuss the freedom of my wife.”
“It terrifies me, because when you watch movies, sometimes those situations don’t end well,” she said at the time, adding, “Sometimes they never get their person back.”
Thankfully, Cherelle did get her person back, as Brittney was eventually released in December 2022.