Serena Williams goes to have one other child, and her daughter could be very excited. The 41-year-old tennis legend shared a video on YouTube this week that reveals her and her husband Alexis Ohanian sharing the being pregnant information with Olympia. When Williams tells her 5-year-old daughter she is having a child, Olympia says, “Aer you kidding me?” Olympia then provides her mom a hug and says “I am so excited.” In truth, Olympia was so excited she started to run round the lounge earlier than falling to the bottom. She then yelled out “I am okay.”
The remainder of the video reveals Williams and Ohanian preparing for the Met Gala, which is the place she publicly introduced her being pregnant. “This can be a actually necessary time the place that is the look that I will present my daughter or my son after they’re born, sooner or later, they will look again and see, that is how mommy expressed herself and instructed everybody that she was pregnant with you,” Williams says within the video, per Good Morning America. “You need this second to be completely iconic and completely recent, however but actually particular.”
This would be the second baby for Williams and Ohanian who received married in 2017, the identical yr Olympia was born. The being pregnant announcement comes lower than a yr after she stepped away from skilled tennis, taking part in her ultimate mat on the U.S. Open in August.
“I’ve by no means appreciated the phrase retirement,” Williams wrote in an article for Vogue on the time. “It does not really feel like a contemporary phrase to me. I have been considering of this as a transition, however I need to be delicate about how I exploit that phrase, which suggests one thing very particular and necessary to a neighborhood of individuals. Perhaps one of the best phrase to explain what I am as much as is evolution. I am right here to let you know that I am evolving away from tennis, towards different issues which are necessary to me. A number of years in the past I quietly began Serena Ventures, a enterprise capital agency. Quickly after that, I began a household. I need to develop that household.”
Williams gained a complete of 23 Grand Slam singles titles in her profession. At one level, Williams was ranked No.1 on this planet for 319 weeks and is the one participant to perform a Profession Golden Gram Slam in each singles and doubles.