Name: 【TED】Serena Williams and Gayle King: On tennis, love and motherhood (On tennis, love and motherhood | Serena Williams and Gayle King)
Uploaded: 2017-05-22T17:50:32.000Z
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Gayle King: Have a seat, Serena Williams,

Modal verbs - A2

in that great yellow bathing suit last week

and when I saw it, all I could think of was,

"Gosh, why couldn't she have waited til we sat onstage for TED?"

and you said nobody was supposed to see that picture.

Serena Williams: Well, actually, it was an accident.

I was on vacation, just taking some time for myself,

and I have this thing where I've been checking my status

and taking pictures every week to see how far along I'm going --

SW: No, actually I have just been saving it,

and I didn't really tell a lot of people,

and you know how social media is, you press the wrong button and --

SW: So 30 minutes later -- my phone doesn't ring that much --

and 30 minutes later, I missed like four calls,

and then I picked it up and I was like, oh no.

I was gonna wait literally just five or six more days -- that's OK.

GK: I know, because it was weird, Serena, because it only said 20 weeks,

so it's not like there was a whole lot of information on it.

SW: Exactly, so that's what I've been doing all this time.

18, 19 -- every week I'd just take a picture and save it,

and this was the one time that I slipped.

GK: It really is OK. When you heard the news,

were you excited? Were you afraid? Were you worried?

SW: So I heard it two days before the beginning of the Australian Open,

SW: Yeah, so it was two days before, and I knew.

it was really important for me to just focus right there

and I was definitely not sure what to do.

I know it's very dangerous, maybe, sometimes in the first 12 weeks or so,

GK: But not only did you play, Ms. Williams, you won.

SW: Well, I was looking for another handicap, so ... no.

GK: Did you play differently that game, knowing you were pregnant?

You hear all these stories about people when they're pregnant,

SW: No, I've been so fortunate and so I haven't.

But they get really tired and they get really stressed out,

and I had to really take all that energy,

because I really felt like I didn't have time

to deal with any extra emotions, any extra anything,

and I was supposed to win that tournament

and if I don't win, it's actually much bigger news.

GK: Yeah, when you don't win, that's a big story.

SW: Yes, so for me, I had to really take anything negative

and any emotions that I was feeling at that point

and really figure out what the next step for me to do was.

GK: You have a lot of support. You have a lot of love.

Even when I was coming here, people stopped me at the airport.

I was saying to the flight attendant, the pilot, "Guess where I'm going?"

They said, "Oh my God, we're so glad she's pregnant."

But then you always have these cranky Yankees.

On the way over here, somebody was telling me about Ilie Nastase,

who said some very unkind, inappropriate, dare I say racial things.

I'm not even going to dignify what he said,

SW: Well, I think there are very inappropriate comments,

and not only that, I've been really supportive of my peers

and so for me, it's really important to hold women up,

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【TED】Serena Williams and Gayle King: On tennis, love and motherhood (On tennis, love and motherhood | Serena Williams and Gayle King)

weird

incredible

applause

doubt