Photographed in a two-story home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Tennis champion – Serena Williams showed off her toned body on the cover and the pages of the latest issue of The Wall Street Journal.

Photography byMaciekKobielski

Styling by George Cortina

“I think I would be in California,” she says. “Maybe I would be married? Maybe I would have kids? I would like to believe I would. I would have probably gone into some kind of science. I love animals.”
   “I’ve known Bey for a long time,” Williams says. She also confesses: “I got really sore from dancing!”

   “I’ve had people look past me because of the color of my skin. I’ve had people overlook me because I was a woman…. I’m still going.”

 “I am too much of a hermit,” she admits. “I go through phases—I was going out to dinner a lot, but I’ve [reverted] to my old, staying home thing.”