Former tennis star Anna Kournikova gave followers a glimpse of her every day life as a mother of three — simply in time for Halloween.
Kournikova, 44, shared a uncommon household picture through Instagram on Saturday, October 18. The retired professional athlete shares son Nicholas, 7, in addition to daughters Lucy, 7, and Mary, 4, with longtime companion Enrique Iglesias.
“🎃🎃⚽️🐥,” Kournikova captained her submit, which included a picture of the household seemingly sporting their Halloween costumes.
Kournikova wore a hen swimsuit with sun shades whereas her daughters twinned in pumpkin costumes with matching orange Crocs. Nicholas, for his half, dressed up like a soccer star and crouched in entrance of his mother.
A number of of Kournikova’s followers took to the feedback part to share their disbelief about how a lot Nicholas, Lucy and Mary have grown.
“Youngsters are getting so huge! So lovely!” a fan account wrote, with one other including, “So cute!!!! So joyful you’re again posting my love, we missed you a lot.”
One other fan replied, “I find it irresistible!! The sweetest little pumpkins and mama ducky.”
Kournikova and Iglesias, 50, have been collectively since 2001 after assembly on the set of his “Escape” music video. Since then, the pair have typically saved their romance comparatively non-public.
“Once we met — though she got here from the sports activities world — in a approach, we type of received one another,” Iglesias recalled to Folks in October 2023, detailing the origins of their love story. “She knew what my world was like. I type of knew what her world was like. In order that understanding helped so much.”
He continued, “We simply began connecting little by little and received stronger and stronger and stronger.”
In accordance with Iglesias, he and Kournikova spend most of their days caring for their little ones.
“After I choose them up from college they usually’re having a nasty day or certainly one of them is crying or they’re preventing, we are saying, ‘Guys, what’s your favourite music?’” Iglesias informed Folks on the time. “Then one breaks out into [my song] ‘I Like It,’ after which all of them begin singing it, and it’s so cute. I’m simply having fun with now. I’m having fun with each single day.”
Iglesias beforehand defined how he and Kournikova have managed to maintain their household life to themselves.
“It’s not that powerful [to stay under the radar],” Iglesias stated on Australia’s Right now Tonight in November 2011. “You’ve received to have a humorousness. [There have been rumors] I’ve been married about 28 occasions, have youngsters all around the world. … I believe I’ve received twins in Australia, in Perth. Really, you simply giggle at it.”
As for Kournikova, she additionally has been candid about why the longtime couple by no means tied the knot.
“[Marriage] isn’t vital to me,” Kournikova defined Ladies’s Well being in 2020. “I’m in a contented relationship — that’s all that issues. I imagine in dedication. I imagine in being open and trusting one another and respecting one another utterly.”
On the time, Kournikova did predict that having youngsters can be in her future.
“I completely wish to have youngsters, whether or not I’ve my very own or undertake,” she stated. “I like caring for folks.”
