Serena Williams shares honest post-baby body video as she documents her struggle with clothing
Serena Williams is getting real about life after welcoming a baby, giving birth to her second child with husband Alexis Ohanian last August.
The 42-year-old tennis star shared a new video on Instagram documenting her struggles with figuring out postpartum fashion and her changing body.
Watch below as Serena gets honest about finding clothes that fit her body and getting candid about embracing a new fitness regime…
The star received a slew of positive responses from her famous fans who praised her for being so open about her changing body, with Deborah Roberts writing: “Serena , I appreciate your honesty and vulnerability. You’ll get in that skirt.”
Another fan commented: “Well done on sharing the reality of postpartum… not just the glamorized instagram version,” and a third also added: “You don’t have a problem, you have a beautiful body. Women are spending money to get what you have. Seriously. I love your outlook on life.”
The Wimbledon champ has taken fans along on her fitness journey the past few months as she hits the gym with renewed fervor after welcoming her second daughter. She and Reddit co-founder Alexis are also the parents of daughter Olympia, now six.
Back in 2018, Serena spoke with press ahead of her Wimbledon return about regaining her athlete’s physique after giving birth to Olympia, and revealed that she struggled to lose weight despite following a strict vegan diet.
“I was vegan, I didn’t eat sugar,” she explained. “I was totally eating completely healthily… And I wasn’t at the weight that I would have been had I not breastfed.