It’s the end of the year and all of us are getting really, really tired. Including one of the busiest entrepreneurs and sporting stars in history. Overnight, tennis champion Serena Williams posted a video of herself where she is seen lying across a dining table with her eyes closed while taking a business call with her earphones on.
“My Monday-I was so tired & this was the best I could do,” the 43-year old former World No. 1 wrote on Instagram. “Some days your best may not look as pretty as other days, but running an active beauty brand (@wyn) running after 2 girls, and a VC company (@serena.ventures) lets just say I was exhausted and quite delirious. How was your Monday?”
Williams is wearing a two-piece knitted outfit, her arms splayed out by her side and appears to be answering a question about what ‘active’ means in her life.
“Just because you play sport doesn’t mean you’re active, but I’m active every day. Like I just dropped my kid off at school and if I did make up today, I [want] it to last the whole day. I should have done makeup, because I have a meeting I need to go to…”
“Active is just about an active lifestyle…” she is heard saying.
The post received hundreds of comments from her 17.2 million followers, praising her candid honesty and for keeping it real, which we all appreciate. Most of us (especially those who are undertaking caregiving duties on top of other responsibilities) are probably all feeling the same as Williams, and needing to simply Lie. Down.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion appears keen to tackle the mirage of the “Perfect Instagram Life” — last week, she posted two pictures of herself sitting in what appears to be a private jet, with the caption “Instagram Vs Reality …”
In the first picture, which she dubbed the “Instagram” version, she is looking calm and relaxed working on her laptop with a big, plush blanket spread across her lap. In the “reality” version of the photo, she is mid-way through taking a large bite of a bread roll, looking very hungry and, dare I say, absolutely normal.
Since retiring from professional tennis in 2022, Williams has been running her companies Wyn Beauty and Serena Ventures, a venture capital fund she founded back in 2017 alongside Alison Rapport Stillman. An estimate made by Forbes earlier this year put Williams’ net worth at $340 million USD.