If badass Serena Williams can get off the mat, so can you
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Less than a year after a pregnancy that almost killed her, the superstar nearly won Wimbledon. Now she’s working to effect positive change in the world.
By many objective measures, Serena Williams is the most successful athlete of all time, and certainly of the last few decades. The winner of 23 Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the 36-year-old has been No. 1 in the world eight separate times over 16 years. Earlier this summer, she reached the Wimbledon final as the world’s 451st-ranked player, just a year after giving birth to her first child, a pregnancy that almost killed her.