New mom Serena Williams is thanking her own mother for being the role model she says she needed.
In an open letter to her mother posted to Reddit , Williams calls mom Oracene Price “one of the strongest women I know.” Williams mentions some of the criticisms she’s endured about her muscular body, before telling Price she’s proud that “we were able to show them what some women look like.” She adds “we are curvy, strong, muscular, tall, small, just to name a few, and all the same: we are women and proud!”
Williams says she hopes to “have the same fortitude” in raising her own daughter, Alexis Olympia, who was born on Sept. 1. She signed the letter: “your youngest of five.”
Williams is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
Click here to read the full letter.
(AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File & AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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Yes her child is precious I just hope Serena doesn’t think that because her child is biracial she will be shown any more respect by some . The hate will still be there no matter what .
She is a cutie pie.
All mothers should be their daughter’s role models!!!!!!
Serena’s baby girl is a little cutie!!!!!!!!
How precious – such innocence makes you really believe there could be world peace……long sigh…..
Best reply Kate..I agree she’ is just munchable… Too cute.
That little one is so friggin’ adorable. It wouldn’t do for me to be her babysitter. I’d hug her silly.