{"id":356876,"date":"2025-11-05T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356876\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:02:10","slug":"serena-williams-fans-amazed-at-how-fast-olympia-has-grown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356876\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams&#8217; Fans Amazed At How Fast Olympia Has Grown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"440\" width=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/17622634126015.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., Serena Williams, Olympia, daughter, Instagram \" class=\"wp-image-1538925\" style=\"width:1028px;height:auto\"  \/>Source: Tim Mosenfelder \/ Getty<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Serena Williams are amazed at how fast her eldest daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., has grown \u2014 so much so that they\u2019re doing a double-take on Instagram. Aunties and uncles of social media lit up with excitement and surprise when Serena took to Instagram on Oct. 31 with a photo carousel featuring Olympia, now 7, making a funny face at the tennis legend as she sat beside her. <\/p>\n<p>Deeper in the post, Serena, 44, included sweet throwback photos from Olympia\u2019s early years, including one where the adorable cutie appeared small enough to sit perfectly inside an airport security tray, and another showing her joyfully playing on a beautiful beach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED CONTENT: <a href=\"https:\/\/madamenoire.com\/1362719\/serena-williams-ventures-business-investing-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tales From TikTok: Serena Williams Is Giving Back By Investing In Women And People Of Color-Led Businesses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post concluded with a touching message that read,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Daughter, I hope you can always hear my voice, saying, \u2018You\u2019ve got this\u2019 when the world feels too loud. Love, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tLove MadameNoire? Get more! Join the MadameNoire Newsletter\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-ione-newsletter-sign-up__privacy\">\n\t\t\t\t\tWe care about your data. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/urban1.com\/privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">privacy policy<\/a>.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Serena kept the love flowing in her caption, reflecting on how quickly time has passed since her daughter\u2019s birth in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first they are sweet, then they get sweeter\u2026 Or something like that,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media reacts to Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.\u2019s photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fans quickly filled the comments section with their amazement at how grown-up Olympia looks today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe blinked and she grew up,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/serenawilliams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> wrote<\/a> one user.<\/p>\n<p>Another fan commented, \u201cWow, look at how grown she is now!! So beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third penned, \u201cI\u2019ve been looking at these pictures and telling myself how fast they grow up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serena Williams\u2019 beautiful family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams shares Olympia with husband Alexis Ohanian, and together they are proud parents of two daughters. The couple welcomed their first child, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., affectionately known as Olympia, in September 2017. They expanded their family five years later when Williams gave birth to their younger daughter, Adira River Ohanian, in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Serena has often spoken about how motherhood has changed her outlook on life. During a 2024 interview with Byrdie, the tennis champ<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.byrdie.com\/serena-williams-interview-8603748\" rel=\"noopener\"> gushed <\/a>about how her daughters brought so much joy to her life upon stepping into her greatest role yet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t say that a Wimbledon trophy holds a candle to volunteering at my kid\u2019s school,\u201d she chuckled, before sharing her hopes and dreams for her two children. \u201cI also hope my daughters see how many different passions I have \u2014 from tennis to beauty \u2014 and learn that they can lead dynamic careers and lives across their many interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serena also revealed how Olympia, in particular, helped to change her outlook on beauty after becoming a mother. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotherhood has allowed me to look at beauty through the eyes of my daughter, Olympia. We\u2019re always experimenting with makeup together, and I think about how these moments will be part of both of our beauty journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Serena Williams and her beautiful family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED CONTENT: <a href=\"https:\/\/madamenoire.com\/1506869\/serena-williams-husband-alexis-ohanian-stephen-a-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexis Ohanian Serves A Masterclass In Protecting Your Queen After Stephen A.\u2019s Serena Williams Shade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Tim Mosenfelder \/ Getty Fans of Serena Williams are amazed at how fast her eldest daughter, Alexis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151165,3603,563,2295,5224,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-356876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexis-olympia-ohanian","9":"tag-daughter","10":"tag-instagram","11":"tag-newsletter","12":"tag-serena-williams","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115495813231503765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}