2024 is definitely the year of babies in the Noah family!
On October 22, Yannick Noah took to his Instagram account to announce some very happy news, the birth of his sixth child. At 64, the former tennis player turned singer let it be known how over the moon he was. To share his immense happiness with his community, the last Frenchman to have won Roland Garros chose to publish a very pretty photo taken in the maternity ward a few days before. Alongside his partner Malika who was holding their newborn in her arms, Yannick Noah showed a broad smile. In the background was some valuable information regarding the new baby of the Noah clan. We thus learned that the granddaughter, only a few hours old, was named Keelaani Noah, that she weighed 3.3 kilos at birth.
A boy for Joakin Noah and his wife Lais Ribeiro
And since happiness never comes alone, Yannick Noah has just experienced a new one! This Friday, November 29, 2024 is a special day in the United States: Thanksgiving. It is on this special occasion that Joakim Noah, eldest son of Yannick Noah, and his wife Lais Ribeiro chose to announce the birth of their first child together. As an announcement, a family photo in which the young parents appear with their baby. “Thankful for my family“(grateful for my family)“, writes Lais Ribeiro in the caption, who also poses with her big boy born from a previous relationship. Joakim Noah and Lais Ribeiro have been married since July 2022 and it is in Brazil, on the model's land, that the couple was united in the presence of Yannick Noah and Cécilia Rodhe, Joakim's mother.
Last August, while he was on RTL, Yannick Noah confirmed that he was going to be a dad again. He then announced that his son Joakim (39 years old), already the father of a little girl, was going to experience the same happiness at the same time as him and had revealed in passing that he was expecting a boy with his wife. “I'm having a girl, and my son is having a boy. They will be born together. It's going to be wonderful!“, declared Yannick Noah to Yves Calvi. And in fact, the two babies were born only a few weeks apart.
In addition to Keelaani, Yannick Noah is the father of 5 other children. From a first marriage in 1984 to Cecilia Rodhe, Yannick Noah had two children: Joakim and Yéléna. In 1995, he remarried Heather Stewart-Whyte, who is the mother of Eleejah, born March 1, 1996, and Jenaye, born October 23, 1997. In 2003, Yannick Noah dated Isabelle Camus with whom he had Joalukas, born in 2004.
