Amanda Beard's double good news: married and pregnant

Washington, May 13 (ANI): After winning seven Olympic medals in 2008 and making it to the glossy pages of magazines like Playboy and People, Amanda Beard has double good news to share - she has got married and is expecting a baby soon.

In an interview, the swimmer has revealed that she got married to photographer Sacha Brown, 34, on Wakatobi, an archipelago in the Banda Sea off southeastern Indonesia.

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"It was absolutely perfect. It was stress-free, and super low-key," People magazine quoted her as saying.

The couple said "I do" in a brief sunset ceremony on a private beach at their resort, and presiding over the nuptials was a local elder.

The only witnesses to their marriage were villagers from the area, none of whom spoke English.And now, Beard, 27, is nearly five-and-a-half months pregnant with her first baby-a boy-due to arrive in September.

"I'm starting to look pregnant," said the newlywed.

However, Beard is already planning to get back in the water about half a year after she gives birth, and is aiming to compete in the 2012 Olympics.

Beard, who met Brown on a photo shoot and got engaged on Christmas Day, competed in four straight Olympic Games, starting when she was 14 in 1996 through last summer's Olympics in Beijing. (ANI)