ACTIVIST Riley Gaines has made a big personal announcement.
The former collegiate swimmer, 25, made the reveal on social media.
Gaines has welcomed her first child with her husband, Louis Barker.
She announced that she had given birth to a baby girl, named Margot, on September 29 in an emotional Instagram post on Thursday.
“There’s nothing that could’ve prepare for me love like this. God has blessed us beyond belief,” Gaine wrote.
Gaines added pictures of her and her husband holding their baby.
She married the British swimmer Barker in 2022.
The couple had met while both were swimming for the University of Kentucky in 2019.
Back in June, Gaine and Barke announced that they were expecting their first child together.
The announcement came as she was in a public feud with Olympic legend Simone Biles over transgender women competing in women’s sports.
Gaines first revealed she was pregnant during a speech at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Texas.
Biles had lashed out at Gaines for calling out a Minnesota softball team that was competing with a trans player back in June.
“You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser,” Biles said.
She referenced the 2022 NCAA Championships where Gaines competed against trans swimmer Lia Thomas.
The seven-time Olympic gold medalist got even more personal in a follow-up social media post, saying, “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.”
Gaines hit back in a long video and claimed Biles “had sold out to appear to be virtuous”.
She added that it was “not any woman’s job” to ensure “that men’s feelings are validated and their identity affirmed”.
Biles apologized for the comments four days later, and Gaines accepted.
Gaines’s campaigning has led to her earning respect from President Donald Trump.
The commander-in-chief invited her to appear at the Oval Office when he signed his executive order to prohibit trans athletes from competing in women’s sports.
