Serena Williams reveals how she spent her first million dollar check

Tennis superstar, Serena Williams has revealed how she spent her first million dollar check.

Serena Williams who is one of the world’s highest-paid female athletes, she says she’s never been motivated by the money. She said;

“I’ve actually never played for money — I just thought you would go out there and hold a trophy,” Williams said on “Kneading Dough,” the personal-finance video series produced by LeBron James’ media company, Uninterrupted.”Not once did I think about a check,”

The 36-year-old, whose career prize money tops $86 million said when she received her first million-dollar check she kept it safely in the bank.

 

“I never touched [the money] — just put it in the bank,” she said. “And I remember I went through the drive-thru to deposit my check, and then they were like, ‘I think you need to come in for this,’ and so I ended up going inside … ‘Just put it in my account!’”

Williams credits her parents with teaching her about the value of money at a young age.

“I never ever, ever felt broke,” she told Carter in the video. “Looking back, I’m like, wow, we lived in a two-bedroom house with seven people … I don’t know how my parents were able to make me feel that way, but they did, and that was something really special. So I never felt when I came into money that I needed to go buy this [or that] because I never wanted it, so it was a great way [to grow up].”