WNBA Star Candace Parker Reveals She’s Been Married for Two Years, Expecting Baby With Wife

WNBA star Candace Parker announced Wednesday that she and her wife Anya Petrakova, are expecting a baby.

Parker made the announcement in an anniversary post to her wife, revealing they got married two years ago. She shared several photos of the two at their wedding and pictures of Petrakova’s baby bump. 

“Happy Anniversary Моя жена! 2 years ago, I got to marry my best friend in front of our close family and friends. My heart could have exploded,” she wrote in the lengthy caption. “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.”

One of the adorable photos showed the two with Parker’s 12-year-old daughter Lailaa cradling Petrakova’s bump.

She continued, “Thank you for always loving Lailaa as your own, being my calm, my support, my voice of reason, my laughs, my cuddles, my dance in the rain, my happy, my home… Thanks for constantly challenging me and telling me when I’m wrong. I LOVE YOU. I appreciate you, I value you and what we have.”

She closed out the post by announcing that their family of three would become a family of four. 

“We’ve always dreamed of growing our family… .it’s surreal that we now have a baby on the way! Lailaa is pumped to be a big sister!” she wrote.

Parker is captain of the Chicago Sky, who beat the Phoenix Mercury in four games in the WNBA Finals in October. It was the team’s first-ever championship win. 

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