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After arriving at the hospital, Williams was recorded, saying “We’re just getting started. And I’m about to get induced because you didn’t come,” Williams says in one of the videos. “Today is the day we are going to the hospital, but later tonight. SERENA Williams said she wouldn't be celebrating her daughter's first birthday because she's a Jehovah's Witness, who believe such events have pagan origins. Instead of throwing a party, the couple decided to mark the occasion by sharing a few home videos from the day that baby Alexis was born. We’re Jehovah’s Witnesses, so we don’t do that,” she told People Magazine last week. Back at just her second major event since childbirth, Serena Williams made headlines during the US Open for myriad reasons. Williams and Ohanian didn’t have a birthday party for their little one, however, as Williams is a Jehovah’s Witness.Īccording to the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ website, followers of the church don’t believe in celebrating birthdays because they believe it’s displeasing to God. The couple recently celebrated their daughter’s first birthday Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr. The King Richard true story reveals that when Venus and Serena's father, Richard Williams, was a youth living in Shreveport, Louisiana in the 1940s and '50s, white attackers hit him 'over the head with a baseball bat, a bottle, and a flashlight.' He said that he was beaten up when he was five for 'handing a dollar to a white store clerk. Serena Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, has been cheering her on from the stands of the U.S.