Read About Serena Williams' Hospital Health Scare

Photo credit: Mario Testino/Vogue
Photo credit: Mario Testino/Vogue

From Cosmopolitan

Tennis legend Serena Williams and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian welcomed their first child into the world last September, and for the first time Williams is opening upabout the scary medical experience she had while giving birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.

Despite a seemingly easy nine months of pregnancy (Williams was so careful she would ask 34-year-old Ohanian if she could eat a marshmallow), Williams reveals her daughter was born by emergency C-section after the baby's heart rate dropped dangerously low. The delivery went great, but it was afterwards with Williams herself when everything took a turn for the worse. “It was an amazing feeling...then everything went bad.”