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Monday, October 21, 2019

Serena Williams shows off daughter’s flower girl fashion

On Saturday, Serena Williams posted a picture of her darling daughter Alexis Olympia looking as cute as a buttercup as a flower girl at her aunt’s wedding.

Williams and husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, were on hand to attend his sister Hayley’s wedding. And the 2-year-old tot took part in her auntie’s wedding as the flower girl. Williams said she took her flower girl duties “very seriously.”

“She took her flower girl job very seriously!!!” Williams wrote on Instagram showing off the little cutie in her princess-esque gown.

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She took her flower girl job very seriously!!! @hexner14 @js_poodles congrats. So happy for you both.

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As one can tell, Olympia is very much into her fashion.

In fact earlier this year, like bbf’s who are joined at the hip, the tennis sashayed down her own runway at New York Fashion Week with her boo-boo riding on her side.

Last year Williams launched the Serena Great Collection, featuring clothing with curvy women in mind with sizes from 1X-3X (14 to 24).

Williams also spoke previously about the challenges of trying to be great in business while balancing motherhood.

“It’s been so hard balancing being a mom and starting my clothing line, as well as playing a professional sport! However, it is the challenge that makes it fun,” she said at the time.

“I have spent every day with Olympia since she was born, and one of the latest challenges has been her teething,” Williams added. “I’m sure a lot of parents can relate. A milestone has been her walking — I get a good workout chasing her around the house!”

Williams and Ohanian welcomed Olympia via C-section on Sept 1, and the superstar athlete shared details about her daughter’s labor and the health complications that followed afterward.

“I didn’t expect that sharing our family’s story of Olympia’s birth and all of the complications after giving birth would start such an outpouring of discussion from women — especially black women — who have faced similar complications and women whose problems go unaddressed,” Williams wrote on Facebook.

We’re happy to see that the same little baby is bringing her so much joy.

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Kanye West wanted to stop his rap career because it’s “the devil’s music”

Kanye West has been on a mission to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, having recently been saved. The rapper has also been on his own personal pilgrimage around the globe performing his Hip-Hop gospel during “Sunday Services.”

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But Yeezy’s pastor, Adam Tyson, told a Christian podcast, Apologia Studios, that once upon a time, the rapper was ready to put a plug in his rap career because it was “the devil’s music.”

“One time, he told me that he wasn’t going to rap,” Tyson said in the interview. “I said, ‘Why not?’ He said, ‘That’s the devil’s music.’ I said, ‘Hey, man. Rap is a genre. You can rap for God.’ I think he was already thinking about it a little bit, but I definitely said, ‘Hey, bro. I think you need to use your talents that God’s given you and use that platform for God.'”

Tyson is pastor of Placerita Bible Church in California and welcomed West to the church back in May.

“[Kanye] said, ‘About five weeks ago, I got radically saved,'” Tyson explained. “He just started telling me a little about his testimony.”

Part of West’s confessions included his feeling about the secular music that made him the worldwide star he is.

“The guilt of sin brought him down low,” the pastor said. “He would say the devil basically brought him to a place where he just felt like he was in bondage to his sin. So he said, ‘I got delivered.’”

Although West is leading his life with a new vision that involves ministry, he was criticized on Friday when he brought his Sunday Service to Jamaica.

“I don’t know [Kanye] as a Christian and someone who is being led by the Holy Spirit,” Pastor Stephen Blake of Acts of the Holy Spirit Ministries International told the Jamaica Star. “We have to examine the motive here.”

West and his 120-person choir held a show at the Emancipation Park in Kingston on Friday evening performing songs such as “Prince of Peace,” Damian Marley’s “Welcome to Jamrock” and “Jesus Walks,” during his two-hour show, Highsnobiety reports.

West is reportedly getting ready to roll out an album titled Jesus is King.

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Milwaukee woman charged after savagedly stabbing victim

A Milwaukee woman named Bianca Moody was in apparently in a mood, and faces charges for stabbing a woman because she was “tired of being disrespected and being treated like garbage.”

The 26-year-old racked up a first-degree charge of recklessly endangering safety for viciously stabbing a victim on October 14 who irked her. The victim was found outside a home near the driveway, holding a towel against her neck to stop the bleeding from a gash.

The victim reported that Moody stabbed her with a kitchen knife and she was transported to a local hospital where she was treated for a 5 cm wide puncture wound to her top right shoulder, CBS58 reports.

Blood filled the woman’s chest cavity, making it even more life threatening.

According to the criminal complaint, Moody’s motive, was cited as being “fed up” and tired of the woman talking to her life she was “garbage.” What even more strange is that the two lived together and share kids fathered by the same man.

The victim had moved into the home recently.

The victim said she didn’t even see the assault coming as Moody attacked her in front of her children.

“I just sat there. I was terrified,” the mother said. “I just knew I was about to die,” Fox6Now reports.

“My kids were screaming, and screaming for her to stop.”

“When I turned around to look at her, she tilted her head and smiled,” the victim said.

“She brought the biggest one — a butcher knife,” the woman said. “She just ran to me from the back and started to stab me.”

The wound, the victim said was pretty serious.

“I was told, two more inches in, I would have died right here in front of my children,” the mother said.

“When I asked her, ‘Why did you do this? Why would you stab me?’ She said, ‘Because I’m sick of you being around,'” the victim said.

Sounds like a case of some serious baby mama drama.

Moody is due back in court November 5.

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Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, calls 1st year of marriage difficult

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex says her first year of marriage to Britain’s Prince Harry has been difficult because of the pressure from Britain’s tabloid press.

The former Meghan Markle told ITV in an interview broadcast Sunday that her British friends warned her not to marry the prince because of the intense media scrutiny that would follow in his country. But the U.S. television star said she “naively” dismissed the warnings, because as an American she didn’t understand how the British press worked.

“I never thought this would be easy but I thought it would be fair. And that is the part that is hard to reconcile,” she said. “But (I) just take each day as it comes.”

The royal couple revealed their struggles with the media during the ITV documentary “Harry & Meghan: An African Journey,” which followed them on a recent tour of Southern Africa. Both said they had struggled with the spotlight, particularly because they say much of what is printed is untrue.

The pressure was aggravated by the fact that the duchess was a newlywed, then pregnant and then a new mother.

“Any woman, especially when they’re pregnant, you’re really vulnerable. And so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a newborn, you know?” she said, adding that it was a struggle.

Later she added: “I would say thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I’m OK, but it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.”

The 35-year-old Harry did acknowledge there have been some differences between him and his older brother, 37-year-old Prince William, although he said most of what has been printed about a rift between the two has been “created out of nothing.”

“Part of this role and part of this job and this family being under the pressure that it’s under, inevitably stuff happens,” he said. “But, look, we’re brothers. We’ll always be brothers. We’re certainly on different paths at the moment, but I will always be there for him, as I know he’ll always be there for me.”

Harry has lashed out at the British media in the past for its treatment of Meghan, accusing the media of hounding her the way it did his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a 1997 car crash while trying to elude paparazzi. Harry insisted he didn’t want such history repeated.

During the trip to Africa, Harry walked through the same minefield in Angola that his mother visited just before her death as she publicized efforts to clear thousands of mines left behind by the country’s 27-year civil war.

He told ITV that one of the most difficult parts of being constantly in the public eye is that every click of a shutter and flash from a camera is “the worst reminder” that his mother’s life ended so young, at only 36.

But he added, “I will not be bullied into playing a game that killed my mum.”
At the close of their African tour, Harry and Meghan each brought separate legal actions against the media.

The duchess earlier this month sued the Mail on Sunday tabloid, claiming it illegally published a letter she wrote to her father. Harry sued over the alleged illegal interception of voicemail messages by journalists from the Sun, the News of the World and the Daily Mirror newspapers.

Harry, who has joined his brother in promoting a more open discussion of mental health issues throughout society, described his own mental health struggles as being a matter of “constant management.”

“Part of this job, and part of any job, like everybody, is putting on a brave face and turning a cheek to a lot of the stuff,” he said. “But again, for me and again for my wife, of course, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue.”

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