In an interview with Tennis Channel, Serena Williams spoke about her motherhood and the joy and happiness she feels with her husband and daughter. ‘It’s really great,’ Serena admitted. ‘I love both Alexis’s. I am really happy to have both of them in my life, it’s just a totally different world, a totally different life.’
Serena also said that on September 1st, when Olympia turned one, they did not celebrate: ‘Olympia doesn’t celebrate birthdays. We’re Jehovah’s Witnesses, so we don’t do that.’
Serena had said that physically it had been harder than she had expected coming back from childbirth. Speaking about the world perceives childbirth, Williams said, ‘I think society puts it out there that you’ll just kind of snap back and that’s just a myth. I feel like it’s important for women to know that it doesn’t happen like that in the Instagram world. But in the real world, it takes a while for your body to come back. Especially after a C-section, I think it takes a little bit longer. And not only that, like mentally and physically and dealing emotionally with providing for another child, it’s a lot that goes into it. And I was just living in this world where I thought it would just automatically come together. Yeah, my dress, I kind of look like a magical fairy, but it’s not happening. So I had to realize and live in reality.’
