Serena Williams Gets Real Trying on Too-Tight Valentino Skirt: ‘Houston, We Got a Problem’

Serena Williams is on a mission focused on fashion.

In a new Instagram Reel shared on Sunday, Williams, 42, revealed she wants to wear a denim skirt she bought while pregnant with her second child, 5-month-old Adira River, who was born in August 2023.

“I got this cute Valentino skirt when I was pregnant and I thought ‘I’ll be able to wear this when I don’t have a belly,'” the 42-year-old athlete told the camera in the clip, which was taken as she stood in front of a bathroom mirror.

“I can’t put it on,” she admitted before continuing to pull up her skirt.

“But this is my goal. Honestly, I should have managed to fit it in by now, but I ran into some, um… I was distracted for about a month,” she continued. Williams said she is now about a month behind on her goal as she turns to show the mirror that her skirt doesn’t fit over her bum.

“Houston, we have a problem,” she laughed.

Serena Williams trying to fit into a Valentino skirt.

Serena Williams/Instagram

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But the tennis star said she won’t give up trying to fit into designer denim. “I feel like if I go to the gym and get fit, I’ll be able to achieve this in a month?” Williams asked viewers rhetorically, making a funny face to show she was unsure of her timeline.

The last frame of the video included a picture of the outfit with text letting her followers know the skirt was going back into the drawer – “for now”.

The mom of two captioned the video, “Denim Skirt Diary (Part 1) #valentino.”

Williams with his daughters.

Serena Williams/ Instagram

Earlier this week, the retired tennis champion shared a video of herself at the gym doing barbell squats. “I’m getting back into the swing of things,” she said.

Serena Williams’ Two Children: All About Olympia and Adira

Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, announced the birth of Adira on Instagram last summer, with Ohanian writing, “I’m grateful to report that our house is coming together [sic] With love: a happy and healthy newborn baby girl and a happy and healthy mom. A feeling of gratitude. @serenawilliams you have now given me another incomparable gift — you are GMOAT.”

Adira’s older sister is their daughter Alexis Olympia, 6.

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