Serena Williams uncorked on Vanity Fair. Speaks candidly on life, love and pregnancy

It took six tests to convince her she’s pregnant 

Alex and Serena looking so COOL in their Vanity Fair shoot 

A non-morning person dragged off to breakfast in Rome and a hung over guy seeking the solace of early morning coffee and the quietude of working alfresco is what it took.
Neither had met the other before, knew nothing of each other’s craft, nor particularly cared, yet cupid struck the unsuspecting pair of Serena Williams and Alex Ohanian two years ago, poolside at breakfast in the Cavalieri hotel, Rome.
Fast forward from that chance meeting early in the morning on May 12, 2015.
The pair are definitely an item, engaged to be married later in the year and expecting their first child. 

Serena won Grand slam no. 23 in Melbourne, Australia while she was eight weeks pregnant, never dropping a set.

How about the pregnancy that took all by surprise, what with Serena having just won her record 23rd Grad slam title just weeks earlier?
According toVanity Fair, it took six pregnancy tests to finally convince Serena Williams she really had a baby growing inside of her.
Despite the vomiting and enlarged breasts, world number one female tennis player Serena Williams was certain she wasn’t pregnant.
It was only at the urging of her friend Jessica Steindorff did the sporting ace agree to take a pregnancy test in early January, mainly to shut her friend up. The truth prevailed. Serena indeed was pregnant.

Serena Williams gave a candid interview on love, life and her pregnancy in a new interview with Vanity Fair

The tennis superstar  who showed off her burgeoning bump in a glamorous nude cover shoot for Vanity Fair, didn’t think there was a chance she was actually pregnant when she began feeling different physically while practicing in January for the Australian Open.
At 35-year-old, and gunning for record grand slam titles to add to her already loaded trophy chest, Serena who is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, had thrown up and noticed her breasts felt enlarged while she was hitting tennis balls one morning to prepare for the tournament.
Her pal, Jessica Steindorff, threw down a suggestion she might just be late and suggested she take a pregnancy test.
“I’ll take it just because (a) to prove you wrong and (b) because it’s fun, whatever,” she recounted for Vanity Fair scribe Buzz Bissinger. “It’s like a joke. Why not?”
But the test came back positive, leaving Williams stunned.
“(I) did a double take and my heart dropped,” she said. “Like literally it dropped.”

Serena Williams was victorious in Australia when she beat big sister Venus for her record open era title

But apparently that wasn’t enough proof to convince Williams she really was pregnant. Steindorff ran to a pharmacy and picked up five more pregnancy tests for Williams. Each confirmed that the tennis great was expecting.
The baby on board didn’t affect Williams’s performance at the Open a week later. The tennis icon, who’s won a record 23 Grand Slam titles, not only won the tournament, but did so without losing a set in seven matches.
Serena looked gorgeous, baring it all for Vanity Fair

Williams and Ohanian, 34, plan to get married this fall after the baby arrives, according to the Vanity Fair feature, which features a cover of Williams cradling her bump.
During her wide-ranging interview with the magazine, Williams discussed how she and her friends were originally annoyed by Ohanian when they first met him in Rome in May 2015, because he decided to sit down next to them by the pool at their hotel even though there was ample seating in the area.
”This big guy comes and he just plops down at the table next to us, and I’m like, ‘Huh! All these tables and he’s sitting here?'” she recalled.
But they quickly hit it off, and a year and a half later Ohanian proposed, at the same hotel where they first met.
Tennis superstar Serena Williams who is expecting a child this fall with fiance, Alexis Ohanian made a splash at the New York MET Gala, a couple of months back

Serena looked gorgeous, baring it all for Vanity Fair

Pregnant Serena clowns her way through a red carpet photoops

“I knew it was coming. I was like, ‘Serena, you’re 35, you’re ready. This is what you want,'” she remembered.
Williams, who is the younger sister of fellow tennis star Venus, revealed in April that she was five months pregnant when she accidentally made a Snapchat photo of her baby bump public after intending to only send it to her friends.
Despite the radical changes to her personal life, she’s not ready to call game, set, match on her tennis career and hopes to return to competing in tournaments as soon as January.
“I don’t think my story is over yet,” she said

Pregnant Serena clowns her way through a red carpet photoops

Identical Twin Couples can’t tell who is married to whom …seek plastic surgery for distinction

...'a decision to develop distinct individualized dress sense could save the pain and money, but hey, to each their own...'

Identical twin sisters, Yun Fei and Yun Yang will ALL undergo plastic surgery with their identical twin husbands because they can't tell who is married to whom

 

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Quick Thinking: Footage shows children forming human arrow to help police helicopter catch suspected burglars

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Children form a human arrow on the ground to help police catch suspected burglars

Police have released a video of a group of youngsters who formed a human arrow to point a police helicopter in the direction of two suspected burglars on the run. 

The group of 30 children and adults were taking part in an Easter egg hunt in Capel, Surrey, when they became aware of the National Police Air Service (NPAS) helicopter circling overhead.


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Inspiration Friday: Meet the 11-year-old girl who scored an $11million deal with Whole Foods to sell her lemonade that's sweetened with honey in an effort to save bees

...brilliant idea. Just the beginning of great things to come

An 11-year-old Texas girl has just scored a sweet $11 million deal with Whole Foods to sell her brand of lemonade. 

BeeSweet Lemonade uses tasty mint, flaxseed and it's infused with honey, which came from her great-grandmother's 1940 recipe    

She came up with idea in an effort to save bees and support beekeepers

Mikaila appeared on Shark Tank, where she won $60,000 in seed money

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Custom Built Wooden Roadster: Built for $20,000 (£14,000) Looks like it Cost More than $100,000. Wooden car called Julia that can reach 55mph

 ...a car called Julia

 

Photo: Robert Nemeli/Barcroft Cars

Julia the Woodroadster is fitted with reworked Mercedes-Benz seats while an electronically controlled hood hides a a Ford Taunus V6 2.3-liter engine

'It's very rare to find a hard wood concept car of very good quality. It's almost impossible to find it anywhere in the world.

'It was a hard time for me but also a happy time. It was a great happiness for me to build it.'

 

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Finally Embracing Large Facial birthmark She had spent $15,000 to Remove, US Model, 24 go Make up Free for a Photo Shoot

Before                                                                                   After

'I decided I didn't need to cover it any more after going to a party and a load of guys were chatting me up - which was weird because I used to feel ugly without make-up'.

'But now I know I'm beautiful because of my birthmark.'

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Amazing Love: I married my sperm donor!! Woman tracked down sperm donor, marries him in a stunning beach-side wedding with their adorable daughter as flower girl

    Aminah Hart, from Melbourne, met her husband Scott Andersen after she had conceiving his child through IVF
    Mr Andersen, a sperm donor,  had indicated that he was willing to meet a child that came from his genetic pool
    Ms Hart's mother tracked Mr Andersen down online and the pair decided to meet after Leila's first birthday
    It did not take long for the pair to fall in love and confide in each other about their feelings towards one another

The Good and Ugly: The Italian Liberation from World War II in Pictures

   

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A member of the American women’s auxiliary chats with some farmers dressed in traditional clothing in an Apennine village. Aiello del Sabato, Avellino 1944.

 Buildings destroyed by bombs, faces filled with despair, stoic soldiers, a worn-out Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XII wading into a crowd of Allied troops, and a glamorous Marlene Dietrich performing atop a piano in a military hospital: these are only a few of the 140 photos showing the long, difficult process of liberating Italy from fascist rule. 

Double Trouble: Identical Twin Sisters Anna and Lucy DeCinque share Everything including boyfriend

...crowned 'the world's most identical twins' and share everything - including a boyfriend

Photo: ITV

The twins were interviewed via video link from Perth and This Morning viewers hailed then as 'TV gold'

 Anna and Lucy measure their food and water intake to make sure they both eat and drink the same to keep their bodies in sync
30-year-olds from Perth vow to fall pregnant at same time as their bodies 'must be the same

 

Girl, six, is taken away from her foster family of five years because she is part Native American

Santa Clarita social workers have taken six-year-old Lexi, pictured inset with her family in dark glasses, from her foster parents Rusty and Summer because she is 

Native American and they are white. Six-year-old Lexi sobbed as Rusty reluctantly handed the child over to the Department of Children and Families, right. Her devastated foster mom and siblings looked on, shouting they loved her. Lexi, who has only ever know the Pages as her parents, is one-and-a-half per cent Choctaw Native American. Because of the 'Indian Child Welfare Act' - a federal law passed in the 1970's aimed to protect the best interests of Native American children - she must live with Native American parents. Supporters of the family wept outside the home when she was taken, left.

 

Dayron Varona - Tampa Bay Rays outfielder who thought he might never see his Cuban family again is reunited Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3502339/Never-leave-Tampa-Bay-Rays-outfielder-meets-Cuban-relatives-time-three-years-moving-baseball-career.html#ixzz43apG16s1 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Dayron Varona hugs his niece Melissa Cabrera yesterday

 ...welcome home son

American baseball player has been reunited with his Cuban family for the first time in three years after moving to the US to further his career. 

Scientology Saga: Celebrity Trainer sent to scientology Jail for Kissing a girl -

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Former top female Scientologist, who worked with the Church's biggest names including John Travolta and Tom Cruise's children, claims that she was forced to spend three years in Scientology 'prison'

'I would work with celebrities on a one-on-one capacity. I was Word Clearing John Travolta as he was having trouble with a specific policy'

'I kissed a Scientology girl and liked it - then I was forced to go to Scientology jail!' 

Extreme Taxi Ride - Shocking moment an illegal cab driver tries to run over its OWN customer to avoid inspection

...looks like you take your life in your hands in these situations

Ooops! Footage shows the customer being dragged along the road by the illegal taxi in Liupanshui, China

...trying to avoid a fine, illegal taxi driver run over passenger as he collects luggage from the boot
...police eventually catch up with suspect and hand him a 10,000 Yuan fine
 ...how long a manslaughter charge would have translated to

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Their Lives Weren't Worth the Risk: Western Governments KNEW whereabouts of 80 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram but failed to launch rescue mission

Terrorists stormed a Government Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state, northern Nigeria in April 2014, seizing 276 girls who were preparing for end-of-year exams

    As videos have emerged showing the girls are being brutally raped regularly
  'Fact is -US and UK surveillance discovered whereabouts of kidnapped schoolgirls'
    'Didn't do anything about it as rescue attempt was considered too 'high risk'

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'Maybe you weren't educated properly!' The Unbelievable moment BBC Presenter Andrew Neil, is slammed by a 10-year-old schoolgirl during sugar tax debate:

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Tough cookie: Charlotte, from Wirral, was discussing the sugar tax and the concept of the nanny state
    Andrew Neil was discussing nanny state with two 10-year-old schoolgirls
    Charlotte began voicing her opinions and backed them up with statistics
    The TV presenter told girls when he was their age he would break rules
    Unimpressed, Charlotte suggested presenter was not educated properly
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New Zealand's 'cannabis crisis': smokers confirm chronic shortage

...like, seriously?

'Police seizure of 9,000 cannabis plants sees demand for marijuana far outstrip supply across New Zealand'

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31 year old Model burns herself to death in Kazakhstan because she thought she was too old to get a job ... contracts began to dry up, a few months ago

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Big name: According to fiends she had been reasonably successful finding lucrative jobs with a number of fashion companies and achieving local fame

  'Recently struggled for work, became depressed and withdrew from friends'  
 

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'I'm not about to die' Malawi's president tells Nigerian 'prophet, TB Joshua'

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Malawi President Peter Mutharika
'Country agog as evangelical preacher predicts death of Peter Mutharika and Robert Mugabe before April 1'
...preacher had successfully predicted the death of one of his predecessors

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Inspiring- Woman left paralysed after being thrown from a truck by abusive boyfriend finds love and walks again -'I feared I would never have sex again':

...very inspiring and beautiful lady (5 sherkere for you)

Megan Torio, 28, broke her back and was left in a wheelchair after an abusive boyfriend through her from a moving truck. But she has defied doctors to walk again and has rebuilt her strength at the gym

Celebrating St Patrick's day and Hoping for a bit of Luck - Race goers dress as Leprechauns

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Pretty young girl who was also decked out in green in honor of the occasion

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