{"id":270627,"date":"2019-04-03T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1029564"},"modified":"2019-04-03T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T01:04:00","slug":"how-serena-williams-thinks-meghan-markle-will-be-as-a-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/how-serena-williams-thinks-meghan-markle-will-be-as-a-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"How Serena Williams Thinks Meghan Markle Will Be as a Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.013039117352\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21.775325977934\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong> surrounds herself with real life royals, but she&#8217;s friends with some unofficial monarchs, too. Namely, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/serena_williams\">Serena Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Queen of the Tennis Court.<\/p>\n<p>Serena and her husband <strong>Alexis Ohanian<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/873782\/serena-williams-gives-birth-to-first-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcomed their daughter<\/a> <strong>Alexis Olympia Ohanian&nbsp;<\/strong>on Sept. 1, 2017 and now the tennis champ is giving her two cents on how she thinks her royal BFF will fare as a mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;ll be the best mom, for sure,&#8221; Serena told E! News while also chatting about her Pampers Cruisers 360 Fit &#8220;Wild Child&#8221; program that she&#8217;s doing with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chrissy_teigen\">Chrissy Teigen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The former&nbsp;<em>Suits<\/em> star is expecting her first child with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_harry\">Prince Harry<\/a><\/strong> any day now. Kensington Palace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/971040\/meghan-markle-is-pregnant-expecting-first-child-with-prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared the happy news on Oct. 15<\/a>, just one day after the couple landed in Australia for their first royal tour together as a married couple.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like Serena could not be happier for the Duchess of Sussex. The two of them first met and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/837486\/inside-meghan-markle-and-serena-williams-friendship-why-she-credits-the-tennis-star-as-her-closest-friend-and-confidante\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">became close friends&nbsp;at a charity flag football game<\/a> in February 2014 and have been pretty inseparable ever since.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"49.337686567164\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.429104477612\">\n<p>Serena looked like pure royalty at Meghan and Prince Harry&#8217;s May 19, 2018 nuptials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bi9DSc4lxWF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her pink Versace dress<\/a> and Bulgari jewels. The 37-year-old also helped throw Meghan the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1016756\/how-amal-clooney-and-serena-williams-threw-meghan-markle-the-80-000-baby-shower-of-her-dreams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">baby shower of her dreams in New York<\/a>. Her $80,000 shower, which was co-hosted by none other than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/amal_clooney\">Amal Clooney<\/a><\/strong>and held at the penthouse of the Mark Hotel, featured other A-list celebrities such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gayle_king\">Gayle King<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Misha Nonoo<\/strong> and <strong>Jessica Mulroney<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1016502\/meghan-markle-grabs-dinner-with-serena-williams-and-more-besties-in-nyc-after-baby-shower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The get-together included<\/a> famous harpist <strong>Erin Hill<\/strong> as well as bouquets of peonies and roses and a cotton candy machine.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.834246575342\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.504109589041\">\n<p>The adoration is totally mutual, too. During her royal tour in the South Pacific, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/977957\/meghan-markle-shows-serena-williams-some-love-with-her-latest-royal-tour-look\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meghan wore one of Serena&#8217;s blazers<\/a> from her clothing company Serena. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpA8ZP7nFNa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The face you make<\/a><span id=\"react-root\"><span title=\"Edited\">&nbsp;when you and Duchess of Sussex Meghan have matching @serena blazers,&#8221; Serena captioned a photo of Meghan waving to a crowd in Dubbo, Australia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">Meghan wrote a bit about their bond in her now-shut off blog called The Tig.&nbsp;&#8220;We hit it off immediately, taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing in, and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old fashioned girly stuff,&#8221; she described. &#8220;So began our friendship.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">The former actress also cheered on Serena at the U.S. Open and other major tennis matches.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-4-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"33\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201863\/rs_1024x759-180703063711-1024-Meghan-Markle-Serena-Williams-LT-070318.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Meghan Markle, Serena Williams \" alt=\"Meghan Markle, Serena Williams \" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images, Mike Pont\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32.969330855019\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"13.187732342007\">\n<p>The Grand Slam champion <a href=\"https:\/\/10daily.com.au\/shows\/theproject\/a180922eos\/serena-williams-says-meghan-markle-has-supported-her-after-u-s-open-controversy-20180922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/10daily.com.au\/shows\/theproject\/a180922eos\/serena-williams-says-meghan-markle-has-supported-her-after-u-s-open-controversy-20180922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Project<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>in September that she and Meghan talk a decent amount.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, we, I think have known each other for a long time. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/970782\/serena-williams-says-she-and-meghan-markle-have-been-relying-on-each-other-a-lot-lately\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we really are relying on each other a lot lately<\/a>,&#8221; she explained. Serena thinks that Meghan would &#8220;definitely agree&#8221; if asked about their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>She said of the royal wedding, &#8220;We were literally watching history. And I feel like in a few years we&#8217;ll look back at that moment and it&#8217;s just going to be so historic, that it&#8217;s going to be something people never forget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>As the mother of a young woman, Serena has learned some lessons when it comes to parenting and motherhood. She shared one of those takeaways with E! News. &#8220;<span>Accept mistakes and don&#8217;t expect to be perfect. We put so much pressure on ourselves,&#8221; she gleaned.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I had all those high expectations and what I was going to do and then I had what I was going to do. I was gonna recover and I was gonna be great, and this is a time that everything is not going to go as planned,&#8221; she said while discussing what it felt like to be a new mom. &#8220;<\/span>My whole life is so planned and this is the one time where it wasn&#8217;t. You just gotta go with the flow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>Serena also briefly discussed this past year in tennis and some takeaways that she took from the ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span>I&#8217;ve missed every single goal I had for this season, so I&#8217;m wiping the board clean and starting over to see where my next goal is. Maybe I just need to stop thinking so much and just go out there and relax,&#8221; she admitted. &#8220;My next goal is to just take a deep breath.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-8\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029564\/how-serena-williams-thinks-meghan-markle-will-be-as-a-mom?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle surrounds herself with real life royals, but she&#8217;s friends with some unofficial monarchs, too. Namely, Serena Williams, Queen of the Tennis Court. 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