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Volleyball champion was pregnant at London Olympics


Kerri Walsh Jennings of the U.S. celebrates winning the women's beach volleyball gold medal match with her husband Casey Jennings and her son at the Horse Guards Parade during the London Olympics in August. (Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters/Files)

Gold medal volleyball star Kerri Walsh Jennings has revealed she was pregnant at the Olympics this past summer.

The U.S. Olympian, who jumped and smashed her way to victory with longtime partner Misty May-Treanor, admits she discovered she was expecting shortly after returning home from London.

"When I was throwing my body around fearlessly, and going for gold for our country, I was pregnant, and today I'm 11 weeks pregnant," she told American breakfast show Today.

And she confesses she had her suspicions.

"I'm a pretty happy girl and I was unreasonably moody. I thought it could have been the stress of the games and travel kind of throws your schedule off, but I knew. At some point, you're late and then you start feeling something. And I definitely started feeling something in London."

Jennings and her husband Casey already have two sons, Joey, three, and two-year-old Sundance.











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