Well not really, he IS married. He’s going to be a father!
Well not really, he IS married. He’s going to be a father! Congratulations!
Rockets star Yao Ming and his wife Ye Li are expecting their first child in July.
The news was accidentally revealed by Ye’s close friend Miao Lijie, who is her former teammate on China’s women’s basketball team, when attending a show at Shanghai World Expo on Monday. When asked why Ye did not come to the show with her, Miao said a “pregnant woman deserves less public activities.”
Yao, 29, marked his marriage to longtime girlfriend Ye, 28, with a lavish August 2007 ceremony.
The couple hasn’t decided yet where the baby will be born, but whether boy or girl, “lil’ Yao” is sure to be one thing: creepy tall. Yao stands at 7-foot-6-inches, while Ye towers over most women at 6-foot-2.
In a recent Sina.com online poll, 76 percent of more than 29,000 people voting said that Yao’s child was likely to grow taller than 6-foot-8, while 33 percent said the baby would grow taller than 7-foot-2. However, according to the calculations of medical experts, cited by China Daily, if the child is male, he probably will reach a height of between 6-foot-6 to 7-foot-3.