Just look at all that gorgeous skin! lol.. Black is indeed beautiful! Serena in a recent piece by Harpers Bazaar where they aimed to celebrate women who live by their own rules and are brave enough to take flight!
She opens up on work life and things in between..
Ask her the secret to this calm and Williams hoots, "Girl!" Huddled under a blanket in a Toronto hotel, she elaborates: "I think it started last year when I won the US Open," she says. "I was so stressed to get to number 18 the whole year before." Eighteen refers to the count of major titles, sealing Williams's legend status as the greatest female player of all time, tying Martina Navratilova's and Chris Evert's records.
Get there Williams did, and then some. There's something in that security—and at 34, not being a baby anymore—that has granted her a certain exhalation. "I've made it a point to be calmer," Williams says, sipping sparkling water while toying with a moules frites. "You know me, I'm really intense and really crazy, but in my career I want to be more calm." Her reasons are physical as well as emotional. "When I went through all of that stuff with my lungs [she suffered a life-threatening pulmonary embolism in 2011], that's when I decided to be more calm on the court."
When you think about it, most of us can work if we're not feeling so hot. Williams can't. Her career depends on every single part of her body functioning at peak capacity. All the time. "Yeah," she agrees. "But you know what? I think I was prepared for this for so many years, practicing, training. I'm 34. I've been training and doing this …" Since she was a kid. She corrects me. "Since I was three."
While 34 is commonly celebrated as a woman's prime, it is not in tennis. It's positively geriatric. Unless you're Williams. "I have so much more perspective; I'm more clear," she says. "It's like I can see the game better." She lets out one of her goofy laughs. "Which is so weird."
More when you continue..
