Serena Williams’ Daughter Olympia Discovers Her Mom Is ‘A Little Famous’

At the age of six, Serena Williams’ daughter, Olympia, learns in regards to the special role she played in her mother’s success story.

Any parent will inform you that children are incredibly perceptive, and anyone who has paid the slightest attention to tennis over the past thirty years can inform you that Serena Williams is considered one of the undisputed GOATs of the game. So it was only a matter of time before Williams’ firstborn daughter, six-year-old Alexia Olympia Ohanian, realized her mom is perhaps in a league of her own.

“Olympia is at an age now where she’s like, ‘Listen, I wonder why you’re so famous?’ Mommy, how do they know your name? I…well…” Williams said in her cover story People magazine’s 50th anniversary issue. “I do not live in the guts of Los Angeles or anything, I’m in a quieter area where I’m very reserved and take a look at to do all the conventional mom things and all the conventional things in life.”

Nevertheless, Williams is far from a “normal” wife and mother of two children. At 42, she is also a 23-time Grand Slam champion and four-time Olympic gold medalist, and has been an ambassador and star of campaigns for many major brands. In addition to her eponymous fashion and jewelry brands and the recently launched Wyn Beauty, she is the founder and CEO of a venture capital firm specializing in women-owned and BIPOC-led businesses.

However, humility is by far Williams’ strongest suit, as evidenced by the way she tried to explain her global fame to her precocious child.

“I said, ‘You know Mom’s form of famous?’ (Olympia was like, ‘No, no, no, really, really, really…'” Williams recalled. “And I said, ‘Oh my God, no, no, no.’ She said, “No, yes, you are.” You’re a great tennis player.”

Of course, Olympia may also boast of being a component of considered one of her mother’s best moments on the court, as Williams won the 2017 Australian Open during her first pregnancy.

“I told her one day that she was really in my stomach when I won a big tournament, and she was surprised,” Williams said. “She’s at an age now where I can open up to her a little more and she can understand things more that she didn’t really understand before.”

Helping a six-year-old understand a profession as expansive as Serena Williams’ is one other thing entirely. While moms can often multitask, the previous tennis prodigy admits that balancing multiple roles has develop into increasingly difficult since adding daughter Adira, now eight months old, to her family in 2023.

“It was really stressful starting two brands and then all the brands,” she said. “I start to sweat a little more because now Adira recognizes me and holds out her hands; she wants to come to me and honestly it’s so sweet and adorable. But then again, Olympia is six years old and still wants a lot of attention from me.

“It’s definitely getting a little more difficult, but I love it. I have always liked challenges; I have never shied away from hard work.”

Soon, Olympia can construct empires of her own, as along with her enterprising father (Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian), she learns on the feet of a dynamic mother who happily supports her daughter’s growing curiosity.

“It’s fun to grow things and show my daughter how you make products and say, ‘What do you think?’ Do you like this name? And then literally ask her to say, ‘I like this name better than that,'” Williams said. “It’s really cool to create concepts together.”

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