By Rosy Lawrence | May 2, 2023
The 23-times major winner announced last year that she was “evolving away from tennis”, writing in a Vogue magazine article that she wanted to grow her family after welcoming daughter Olympia in 2017.
“Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the three of us to the Met Gala,” Williams said in a TikTok post on Monday evening.
Serena announced her retirement as a professional tennis player in September 2022. At the time, the tennis superstar said that she wanted to focus on growing her family.
Before retiring, the Olympic gold medalist penned an essay for Vogue explaining her decision to step away from sports.
“Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair,” she said at the time.
“If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family. … I definitely don’t want to be pregnant again as an athlete. I need to be two feet into tennis or two feet out.”
“This morning, my daughter, Olympia, who turns five this month, and I were … in my car, and she’s holding my phone, using an interactive educational app she likes. This robot voice asks her a question: What do you want to be when you grow up? She doesn’t know I’m listening, but I can hear the answer she whispers into the phone. She says, ‘I want to be a big sister,’” she added.
“Olympia says this a lot, even when she knows I’m listening. Sometimes before bed, she prays to Jehovah to bring her a baby sister. (She doesn’t want anything to do with a boy!) I’m the youngest of five sisters myself, and my sisters are my heroes, so this has felt like a moment I need to listen very carefully to.”
