Amanda Beard: Married and Pregnant

May 12, 2009 at 1:00pm PST
Photos: splashnewsonline.com

Amanda Beard has a lot of reasons to celebrate.

The seven-time Olympic medal winning swimmer is nearly 5½-months pregnant with her first baby and was married on May 1st. 

“It was absolutely perfect,” Beard, 27, says of her wedding to photographer Sacha Brown, 34, on Wakatobi, an archipelago in the Banda Sea off southeastern Indonesia in a small village where almost no one spoke English.

Beard, who met Brown on a photo shoot and got engaged on Christmas Day, is expecting a baby boy.

She says she plans to be back in the pool about six months after the baby is born and is aiming to compete in the 2012 London Olympics, making that her fifth straight Olympic games.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

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