{"id":419054,"date":"2025-12-02T08:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/419054\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:08:25","slug":"serena-williams-on-life-as-a-mom-after-tennis-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/419054\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams\u00a0on Life as a Mom After Tennis Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/serena_williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Serena Williams<\/strong><\/a> is acing her post-tennis chapter.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-time grand slam singles champion opened up about rediscovering her identity after retiring from tennis after 27 years as a pro and how she\u2019s balanced this new act as a mother to her and husband <strong>Alexis Ohanian<\/strong>\u2019s daughters <strong>Olympia<\/strong>, 8, and <strong>Adira<\/strong>, 2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to bring in more clarity, confidence that I made the right decisions and that you don\u2019t always have to live only for your children,&#8221; Serena told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.net-a-porter.com\/en-kr\/porter\/article-511c5a2f78ecf782\/cover-stories\/cover-stories\/serena-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">PORTER<\/a> in an interview published Dec. 1. &#8220;I\u2019m discovering me again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Part of that journey has involved her relationship to her body, which has been subject to commentary from the public since she was a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does affect you mentally,&#8221; the 44-year-old mused. &#8220;Absolutely. You think you\u2019re large for your whole life and you look [back] and you\u2019re like, &#8216;I was fit.&#8217; Yeah, I had big muscles. I didn\u2019t look like these other girls, but not everyone looks the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was hard because when I was playing in the beginning\u2014the first 15 years\u2014my body was different,&#8221; Serena went on. &#8220;I had big boobs; I had a big butt. Every athlete was like super-flat, super-thin and beautiful, but in a different way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams is acing her post-tennis chapter. The 23-time grand slam singles champion opened up about rediscovering her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":419055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-419054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115648954617101667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419054","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=419054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}