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Chelsea's Sam Kerr (left) poses with girlfriend Gotham FC's Kristie Mewis after victory in the Vitality Women's FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, London on May 15, 2022.
These pro athletes just entered parenthood!
The queer soccer fam just got a little bigger as star players Kristie Mewis and Sam Kerr just announced the birth of their baby!
Last November, Mewis, a U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team midfielder, and Kerr, Chelsea striker and Australian national team captain, told the world they were expecting a baby in 2025. Now, the baby has finally arrived, and the happy couple announced the news on social media.
The two love birds posted an adorable selfie on Instagram with the caption, “Our little man is here,” showing off the new addition to their family: baby boy Jagger Mewis-Kerr.
Fellow soccer players Mary Fowler, Caitlin Foord and Katie McCabe all took to the comments to congratulate the pair.
To announce they were pregnant last year, Mewis and Kerr posted a series of photos on Instagram that included them holding an ultrasound and Kerr pointing to Mewis’ belly. "Mewis-Kerr baby coming 2025!" Kerr wrote on Instagram at the time.
Kerr, 31, and Mewis, 34, made their relationship public at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics when photos of them hugging after they faced off against each other went viral, and then got engaged in 2023.
Now, Kerr and Mewis are making waves with the announcement of their bundle of joy, but earlier this year their names were splashed across the headlines when Kerr was accused of “causing racially aggravated harassment” to a police officer in England after allegedly calling him “stupid and white.” Mewis testified , telling the court that her fiancé was “speaking her truth in how she was feeling,” and Kerr was found not guilty, New York Times reported.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
