How Motherhood Transformed Tennis Great Naomi Osaka
glamour.comBy As a tennis former world number one, four-time winner, and one of the highest paid women in sports, is used to having her moves documented—be it her training sessions, which she films and often shares on her social media accounts, her matches, press interviews.She didn’t quite anticipate the delivery of , in July 2023, being one of them.
But, as it turned out, Osaka's mother voice recorded her childbirth—capturing "the moment Shai came into the world,” Naomi says, recalling the unexpected, though not unwelcome, memento.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.It’s an intimate anecdote for someone as famously private as Osaka to share.
But it gives an insight into her world: For all the hugeness of her career achievements, for all the trophies she’s won, and the businesses she now heads up (talent agency EVOLVE, creative media company Hana Kuma, and skin care brand Kinlò), family comes first.
The birth of Shai was marked by three generations of Osaka women side by side.Motherhood, Osaka says, has profoundly transformed her.
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