Serena Williams owns homes in California and Florida and an apartment in Paris, and I’m pretty sure she’s primarily based out of Florida. My point is that she stays in hotels whenever she’s in New York. These days, she’s mostly in New York for business, which is what happened this week. Three years after her retirement, Serena is still associated with Nike, one of her biggest sponsors when she was a tennis player. I would assume that Nike still pays Serena, even in retirement, just to get her to show up for certain Nike events. This week’s Nike event was the launch of Nike’s collaboration with SKIMS, Kim Kardashian’s brand. Well, Nike put Serena up in a hotel, and Serena did NOT like the hotel’s decor. She especially hated the vase holding the branches from a cotton plant.

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