{"id":1966966,"date":"2025-08-18T16:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1966966"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:41:17","slug":"pregnant-wife-of-nba-star-danilo-gallinari-gives-update-after-shark-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pregnant-wife-of-nba-star-danilo-gallinari-gives-update-after-shark-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Wife of NBA Star Danilo Gallinari Gives Update After Shark Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The pregnant wife of former NBA star <strong>Danilo Gallinari<\/strong> has offered an update on her condition after she was attacked by a shark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Eleonora Boi<\/strong> was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM0LJAfgDXz\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bitten by a shark<\/a> while vacationing with her family in Puerto Rico last month. Boi, 39, was six months pregnant at the time of the attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI have to say, I am traumatized,\u201d Boi said Thursday, August 14, on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/living\/story\/pregnant-wife-former-nba-player-speaks-after-shark-124639788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Good Morning America<\/i><\/a>. \u201cI started crying. I was screaming for help in Italian.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Boi, her husband, 37, and their two children \u2014 daughter <strong>Anatasia<\/strong>, 4, and son <strong>Rodolfo<\/strong>, 2 \u2014 were swimming in waist deep water when she was alerted to her leg.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI felt a strong pain and my thigh was burning,\u201d Boi recalled. \u201cBut my idea was, \u2018Maybe it\u2019s a huge jellyfish.\u2019 But in the reality it wasn\u2019t a jellyfish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gallinari grabbed the kids and helped his wife get to shore, where a woman helped tend to Boi\u2019s wound with a towel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cShe was an angel,\u201d Boi said. \u201cShe helped so much. I would like to say thank you to this woman because I don\u2019t know her name. I just want to say thank you to her because she helped a lot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Boi recalled telling the woman, \u201cI don\u2019t want to die.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4073775\" style=\"width: 819px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:125%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Eleonora Boi<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Eleonora Boi\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After first responders hit the scene, Boi was rushed to the hospital where she underwent \u201chours of tests\u201d to make sure her unborn baby was still in good health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAfter they gave us our information that the kid was OK and nothing happened to him, they started the surgery process,\u201d said Gallinari, who joined his wife for the interview.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Boi is expected to make a full recovery as the couple prepares to welcome their third baby, but she admitted reflecting on the shark attack has been challenging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI have to be honest, it\u2019s not easy,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause when I remember I\u2019m still scared. It\u2019s difficult.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gallinari \u2014 who now plays for the Vaqueros de Bayam\u00f3n of Puerto Rico\u2019s Baloncesto Superior Nacional \u2014 has vowed to give his wife grace as she begins to rehabilitate mentally from the attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI think that the body in this situation recovers faster than the mind and that\u2019s something you [shouldn\u2019t] have to be ashamed of or scared of,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to signing to play professionally in Puerto Rico in January 2025, Gallinari played 14 seasons in the NBA with the New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Atlanta Hawks, Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pregnant wife of former NBA star Danilo Gallinari has offered an update on her condition after she was attacked by a shark. Eleonora Boi was bitten by a shark while vacationing with her family in Puerto Rico last month. Boi, 39, was six months pregnant at the time of the attack.\u00a0 \u201cI have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1966967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,21741,24386,21848],"class_list":["post-1966966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pregnant-Wife-of-NBA-Star-Danilo-Gallinari-Gives-Update-After.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}