A pregnant Serena Williams poses for Vanity Fair cover and Annie Leibovitz.
Being naked and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair is a cliche. Demi Moore in 1991 was a sensation. Serena Williams in 2017 is yeah, so what?

But the love match of the world’s greatest female tennis player and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is a story worth cracking the magazine open for — with trivia about the fiancé as compelling.

Most media outlets are leading with the fact Serena, 35, took six pregnancy tests before springing the news on Ohanian.

Also crazy are Vanity Fair’s fun facts about the 34-year-old groom-to-be:

“Alexis’s athletic history amounted to the level of a very gangly defensive tackle for Howard High School in Ellicott City, Maryland, far more interested in science fairs and programming and building Web sites. His skill at tennis is not one of potential; when Serena offered to give him a lesson, he turned it down so he could tell his friends that he once turned down a lesson with Serena Williams.”

And the the date that sealed the deal:

“Alexis did come to Paris for the weekend. Not that he had any particular expectations. ‘Even if she blows me off and we don’t even hang out, I’m still going to have an amazing time in Paris, and I’ll have an even better story for all my childhood friends when I was like, “Yeah, I went to Paris for a weekend. I was supposed to meet up with Serena Williams, she blew me off, but I’ve got other friends there, and we had a great time.” ‘ ”

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