With two daughters, and Alexis Ohanian are proud parents.On September 1, 2017, the couple welcomed Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., also known as Olympia, as their first child.
Williams gave birth to their youngest daughter, Adira River Ohanian, in August 2023, completing their family five years later.
Williams talked candidly about juggling parenthood and her job with InStyle in June 2018 following the birth of Olympia.
As much as I love tennis, I need to be with her, so the only rule I have at practice is to finish by 1 p.m.
I want to prioritize her over all of my other tasks. I haven’t spent more than a day apart from her since she was born.
Regarding a second child, the tennis star continued, If I weren’t working, I’d already be pregnant… If I have another baby, I’m not sure if I want to play.
September 2022 saw Williams give from tennis, almost a year before she gave birth to her second child. A few months later, Olympia expressed her happiness at her mom’s increased free time in an edition of the PEOPLE Every Day Podcast.
Williams stated, She wants to make sure that I know that I should have time on my hands and that I should be spending more time with her.
Though amusing, it’s beneficial since young children genuinely desire to spend time with their parents.
And I’m just grateful that she wants to spend time with me. I kind of see it that way because I’m pleased she doesn’t feel that way even though she could.
Williams acknowledges the happiness that comes with such a big life transition, even if she has previously been transparent about her difficulties as a mother.
My entire life, I’ve been so focused on my work, but after I got married and started a family, I saw that life is about so much more. And that was fantastic, she said in January 2021 to PEOPLE.
Here is all you need to know about Serena Williams’ children, from their births to their time spent with their parents.
Olympia, the elder daughter of Williams and Ohanian, was born on September 1, 2017, at West Palm Beach, Florida’s St. Mary’s Medical Center.
Welcome, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr., we’re very delighted to meet you, Ohanian wrote when he posted the news to Instagram. Our young child is already the ideal companion for her mother.
When the tennis star was 20 weeks along, she shared a picture of her growing baby bulge on Snapchat to reveal that she was pregnant.
She subsequently revealed to Vanity Fair that she discovered she was expecting just before she entered and won the 2017 Australian Open.
[I] looked twice, and my heart fell. Like, dropped, she said to the publication. Oh my God, this can’t be—I have to play in a tournament, Williams thought to himself. How will I participate in the Australian Open? This year, I had intended to win Wimbledon.
Ohanian stated that the pair assumed they were having a girl during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, even though they decided not to find out the gender of their child.
Even though she was pregnant, Serena won the Australian Open. And she added, I feel like it has to be a girl because only a woman could be strong enough to take on everything that that baby went through and managed like a champ, he said.
Williams has been quite transparent about her difficult birthing process, which included postpartum procedures and an emergency cesarean surgery.
Williams told PEOPLE in April 2018 that I’ve been physically pushing my body to the boundaries my entire life.
And this was the one instance in which I had no control. I was unable to exert myself. My body exerted its greatest effort. That was really challenging.
