"There’s a lot of excitement but also some heartache in there, lessons to look at."
The greatest-ever Kelly Slater is gonna be a daddy for the third time, this time bringing a lil sister into this gorgeous world for his boy Tao Druku, almost one, and his much-older daughter, Taylor, who is twenty-nine.
Kelly Slater, who just turned fifty-four, and Chinese-American bikini mogul Kalani Miller, her brand Mikoh creates beautifully designed high-end swimsuits, did the ol gender reveal on Instagram.
The post was liked fifty-three thousand times, generated 1500 comments, was forwarded almost two thousand times and reposted 150 times.
“Baby girl arriving Spring 2026,” writes Kelly.
Twas a surprise ’cause they sure did keep Kalani’s pregnancy under wraps.
Kelly and Kalani have been together for eighteen years. The pair met at the Action Sport’s Retailer trade show in San Diego in 2006 when Kalani was working for Roxy.
You’ll remember, maybe, Kelly’s interview with Tom Carroll right before Tao was born, the impending birth bring out some wild introspection in the Champ.
It was Kelly Slater at his most vulnerable.
“My heart was made of stone,” he says.
It’s this comment that provoked the reaction from his daughter Taylor.
To Tom Carroll, he admits the impending birth of his second kid has kicked open a door that’s been shut for decades: “There’s a lot of deep stuff there for me that I’m trying to unwind myself with my own daughter who’s twenty-seven now and married. And when she was born I was just starting, the thick of my career and I had these lofty goals and dreams and ambitions. And, to be perfectly honest, that caused some suffering for her and for me as well. But for her, it was unbeknownst to me at the time because my sights were set on this thing.”
Poignantly, “It always comes home to roost at some point and there’s a lot of that for me right now with an impending birth. There’s a lot of excitement but also some heartache in there, lessons to look at.”
