Why I Won’t Celebrate My Daughter’s Birthday – Serena Williams

American tennis player, Serena William has spoken on why she will not be celebrating her daughter’s first birthday.

The tennis star explained why she and her husband Alexis Ohanian aren’t planning a party for their daughter at a press conference surrounding the U.S. Open.

According to the mom, she and her husband are Jehovah’s Witnesses, and they don’t celebrate birthdays.

She said; “Olympia doesn’t celebrate birthdays”. “We’re Jehovah’s Witnesses, so we don’t do that.”

According to the official website for Jehovah’s Witnesses, followers of the church don’t believe in celebrating birthdays “because we believe that such celebrations displease God.”

“Although the Bible does not explicitly forbid celebrating birthdays, it does help us to reason on key features of these events and understand God’s view of them,” the website said.

One of the reasons Jehovah’s Witnesses avoid birthdays is they believe the celebrations have pagan roots.