Boris Becker: Wife Lilian talks about marriage with ex-tennis pro

Boris Becker (56) is a married man again: On Saturday, the former tennis pro married risk analyst Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro (33) in the Italian fishing village of Portofino. Vogue has now published pictures of the wedding, which apparently took place in the strictest secrecy.

The 85 invited guests did not know where the wedding was taking place until the end. They were ultimately driven “blind” to the wedding location in a Porsche shuttle. As “Bild” reports, the guests even had to cover their cell phone cameras so that they could not give any information “outside”.

The bride went on the offensive to “Vogue”. In an interview two days before the big day, she explains why the couple chose the former fishing village in northern Italy as their wedding location. Her first thought was actually her hometown of Rome. But: “We wanted a place that feels like our home, that is part of our life together, that we know and enjoy. One that reminds us both of ourselves.” The options are Venice, Lake Como and Portofino.

The decision was made quickly during a visit in February this year: “When we arrived and entered the location, I immediately had a vision of what the wedding would look like. We looked at each other and both knew that this would be the place where we would celebrate our big day.”

The couple did not have a wedding planner. “I organized everything myself. Everything was designed by me, with the help of Boris and our assistants.” The inspiration for the wedding was the theme of “Dolce Vita.” Her wedding dress – long, snow-white, off-the-shoulder and figure-hugging – is made of multi-layered chiffon and a very long veil. And it is a collaboration with Andrea Ravieli, who was inspired by René Magritte’s painting “The Lovers.” The painting symbolizes “trust, even without seeing each other,” explains De Carvalho Monteiro.

The photos of the wedding show that there were other outfits: De Carvalho Monteiro rode to the bridal shower the day before in a white and black polka dot dress. To the party on the wedding evening, she wore a white ensemble with a white blazer to match her husband. The wedding cake was a four-tiered cream cake decorated with roses, and the long table was also decorated with numerous roses.

For them, their marriage means “supporting each other, caring for each other, trusting each other and sticking together,” explained De Carvalho Monteiro. Even the difficult last few years – Becker’s conviction and prison sentence – seem to have welded the couple together, as she says in the interview: “To be honest, I think we sealed our marriage a few years ago when we had to deal with certain things together.”

Also from the perspective of a risk analyst, De Carvalho Monteiro explains her view on marriage: “You have to invest in it and work on it every day. It’s a decision you make every day. You can’t just give up because things get difficult. It’s hard work and I understand that. I think we both understand that.”

This is Boris Becker’s third marriage: he was married to Barbara Becker (57) from 1993 to 2001 and had two children, Noah (30) and Elias Becker (25). In 2009, he married his then girlfriend Lilly Becker (48), from whose relationship his third son Amadeus (14) was born. Boris Becker also has a daughter, Anna Ermakova (24), with Russian-British model Angela Ermakova (56). Becker has been in a relationship with Italian Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro since 2020. He announced the engagement at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024.