Twelve-time NCAA All-American swimmer Riley Gaines and husband Louis Barker predict their first little one collectively.
Gaines confirmed the information to Fox Information Digital Saturday, including the couple will welcome a child woman in September.
“Surprise! we’re 26 weeks pregnant,” she stated in a put up on Instagram. “God is SO good all the time.”
The host of OutKick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast married Barker in 2022, and so they celebrated their three-year wedding ceremony anniversary Might 22.
Gaines has been a staunch advocate for feminine athletes throughout the debate about transgender athletes taking part in women and girls’s sports activities.
She most not too long ago sparred with seven-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles over a Minnesota softball crew that received a state championship behind the efficiency of a trans participant.
In response to Gaines’ criticism of a social media put up praising the championship crew, Biles posted a message calling Gaines “truly sick” for her stance on trans athletes.
She even launched a private assault on Gaines’ bodily look.
“You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser,” Biles stated, referencing Gaines competing towards former UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas on the 2022 NCAA championships.
“You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!”
The put up went viral on social media, with Biles including in one other put up, “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.”
Gaines addressed the body-shaming comment throughout a speech at Turning Level USA’s Younger Ladies’s Management Summit in Texas on Saturday, the place she first introduced her being pregnant.
“How many men do you know that have this,” Gaines stated as she confirmed her bump and shared sonograms on stage. Barker additionally joined Gaines on stage to talk about the thrilling information of the brand new version to their household.
“The next generation that our little girl is going to be a part of, that is who you all are fighting for and who Turning Point is fighting for. And so from a father-to-be, thank you, keep fighting… and thank you,” he stated. Biles later issued an apology to Gaines and stated she was “not advocating for policies that compromise fairness in women’s sports.” Gaines responded by accepting the apology and welcoming the Olympian to hitch the hassle “to support fair sports and a future for female athletes.”
