Photo: Mario Testino via Vogue.com
Tennis champ, Serena Williams, and her new husband, Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, welcomed their baby girl, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., on September 1 of last year.
She and Olympia (Serena prefers to call her little girl by her middle name, while Alexis calls her Junior) are on the February cover of Vogue, and in her candid interview, the new mom opened up about her marriage, pregnancy and the intense after-birth experience. The interview starts off at Serena’s home as she discusses her tennis career and her fears about being a great mother.
Although she had what seemed like a flawless pregnancy, she experienced a lot of scary complications for almost two months postpartum.
It all started after Serena’s emergency C-section?Olympia’s heart rate plummeted quite low during Serena’s contractions. After the baby arrived, all seemed to be going well?Alexis even cut the umbilical cord and their baby girl was laid on her mother’s chest. ?That was an amazing feeling,? Serena recalls. ?And then everything went bad.?
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