Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton pledged an estimated £10 million ($13.06 million) each to join a bid for the Chelsea Football Club.According to reports from ESPN, Williams and Hamilton joined former Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton’s bid for the team. Alongside the two superstar athletes, Broughton is also joined by World Athletics president Sebastian Coe and wealthy investors from around the world.A post shared by Lewis Hamilton (@lewishamilton)The outlet also reports private equity veterans Josh Harris and David Blitzer--who own multiple sport teams including the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers--are also backing Broughton’s bid.Serena Williams is already involved in the world of soccer as she is already an investor in Los Angeles’ Angel City FC, which will make its debut in the National Women’s Soccer League later this month.Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly and Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca are also on the shortlist to buy the Premier League club, ESPN reports.Serena Williams opens up about her near-death experience during daughter Olympia’s birthSerena Williams and daughter Olympia look pretty in pink in matching Balmain dressesWill Smith apologizes to Chris Rock after getting violent at the Oscars: 'I am embarrassed'Bids to buy Chelsea Football Club began after the club’s current owner, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, announced he was putting the team up for sale in a statement on last month.
Serena Williams Details Near-Death Birth Experience and 4 Surgeries: It Was ‘Excruciating’
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Looking back. Serena Williams nearly died giving birth to daughter Olympia in 2017 — and the professional tennis player is now describing the harrowing experience in detail.
After an emergency C-section, the athlete, 40, was in “excruciating pain” and unable to stop coughing, she wrote in a personal essay for Elle on Tuesday, April 5.
“The nurses warned me that coughing might burst my stitches, but I couldn’t help it,” the Michigan native explained. “The coughs became racking, full-body ordeals. Every time I coughed, sharp pains shot through my wound. I couldn’t breathe. I was coughing because I just couldn’t get enough air. I grabbed a towel, rolled it up, and put it over my incision. Sure enough, I was hacking so hard that my stitches burst.”
The My Life: Queen of the Court author went into surgery to get restitched, but the procedure was “the first of many surgeries.” In fact, Williams called the experience “a fog of surgeries, one after another,” noting that her husband, Alexis Ohanian, eventually “gave up on trying to leave” the hospital to shower.
“I was coughing because I had an embolism, a clot in one of my arteries,” she wrote. “The doctors would also discover a hematoma, a collection of blood outside the blood vessels, in my abdomen, then even more clots that had to be kept from traveling to my lungs.”
The Olympian, who was unable to leave the hospital for a week, went on to describe her “body’s wreckage” postpartum, writing, “My entire being was just so tired at that point. When I first got home, I couldn’t walk down the driveway. When I finally made it to a tree halfway down the driveway, it was a big hurdle for me.”
Williams previously spoke to Vogue about the scary experience in January 2018, joking that she told
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Serena Williams isn’t done with Hollywood. In a new interview with Insider, the tennis great said that she and her sister, Venus Williams, have more stories to tell outside of what was shared in their family’s Oscar-winning biopic, “King Richard“ — in fact, the film is just the start.
Serena Williams Says There's Still More Stories to Tell Following 'King Richard' Success
Serena Williams isn't done with Hollywood. In a new interview with , the tennis great said that she and her sister, Venus Williams, have more stories to tell outside of what was shared in their family's Oscar-winning biopic, — in fact, the film is just the start. " had a perfect ending with Venus on the tennis court," Williams said of the film's epic culmination, which saw her older sister finishing her first professional tournament.That perfect ending sets the stage for a sequel — and potentially, the start of the Williams cinematic universe -- in which the self-proclaimed Marvel fan said the sisters would be seen embarking on their own, individual journeys. «Venus goes in her direction, and I go in my direction.
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Serena Williams isn’t opposed to a King Richard sequel.
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Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian jokes he is 'bummed' after tennis star posts wedding photos without him
Serena Williams was one of the many star-studded guests that attended Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz's $3million wedding over the weekend, and the tennis star has now delighted fans with pictures from the big event.MORE: Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz's star-studded wedding guestlistTaking to Instagram on Monday, the mother-of-one shared a series of stunning photos of herself taken ahead of Brooklyn and Nicola's rehearsal dinner, which took place on Friday.WATCH: Serena Williams flaunts derriere in jaw-dropping underwater videoFor the first night of festivities, the 40-year-old dazzled in a metallic mini long-sleeved dress by Balmain.READ: Brooklyn Beckham and new wife Nicola Peltz confirm name change after weddingSHOP: Love Nicola Peltz Beckham's wedding dress? 7 perfect lookalikes to get the lookIn the photos shared with her nearly 15 million followers, Serena could be seen posing alongside her sister Venus, who stunned in a mini red dress, as well as good friend Amber Ridinger and even her daughter with Alexis Ohanian, Alexis Olympia. Serena Williams chose a Balmain dress for Brooklyn and Nicola's rehearsal dinner"My sister @venuswilliams and close friends wedding weekend.
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Serena Williams opens up about her near-death experience during daughter Olympia’s birth
Serena Williams is letting fans in on her traumatic childbirth experience. In a personal essay for Elle, the tennis legend opened up about her experience with giving birth to her daughter, Olympia.
Serena Williams opens up on near-death labour experience 'I felt like I was dying'
Serena Williams has revealed harrowing details of how she nearly died when giving birth to daughter Alexis Olympia in 2017. Williams, 40, announced she was pregnant in April that year, after revealing she had been eight weeks gone whilst winning the Australian Open. Five months later, she had an emergency cesarean-section delivery due to the baby's heart rate dropping during labour and also suffered a pulmonary embolism after giving birth, leaving her bedridden for over a month and delaying he return to training.
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Serena Williams is taking her fans into the harrowing first moments after her daughter, Olympia, was born.In a personal essayadapted from , an anthology collected by Amy Schumer and Christy Turlington Burns and shared with , the 40-year-old superstar athlete opens up about how advocating for herself after giving birth saved her life. Describing the discovery of her pregnancy as her body having «switched allegiances,» Williams explains how her body before Olympia was dedicated to tennis and since becoming a mother «the stakes of the game have shifted for me.»«My body has belonged to tennis for so long. I've suffered every injury imaginable, and I know my body,» she writes.
Serena Williams reflects on traumatic childbirth and importance of advocating for herself: ‘I fought hard’
Serena Williams has spoken candidly about her pregnancy and her difficult childbirth, with the tennis star revealing that advocating for herself and “being heard” by her doctors meant the “difference between life or death”. The professional athlete, 40, who welcomed daughter Olympia, four, with husband Alexis Ohanian in 2017, reflected on the pregnancy, as well as the medical emergencies she faced after welcoming her child via caesarean section, in an personal essay for Elle.
Serena Williams Shares How Close She Came To ‘Dying’ Following The Birth Of Daughter Olympia
“So much of what happened after that is still a blur,” writes Serena Williams in Elle’s adaption from Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers. In the essay, Serena, 40, recalled the complications — and multiple surgeries — that followed the birth of her and husband Alexis Ohanian’s daughter, Olympia. “My husband left—to get food and shower back at the house—and this started a trend in which every time he’d try to leave, I’d wind up back in the operating room,” writes the tennis icon.
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Serena Williams and Chrissy Teigen gather up for a group photo during the Frida Mom Panel event on Thursday afternoon (March 31) in Miami, Fla.