THE SPORT SCAN – Faced with an unusual controversy, former women’s tennis star Serena Williams preferred to clarify things on her social networks.
Victim of a wave of detractors on her social networks for several days, the legend of women’s tennis Serena Williams did not hesitate to make an update. It all starts from an innocuous video that she published. In this one, the player with 23 Grand Slam titles is on the knees of Alexis Ohanian, her husband, she has made-up skin and bleached hair. A basic life scene which nevertheless made many people react, wondering about the possible bleaching of the American’s skin. Assumptions denied by Serena Williams “Message to all the haters: I don’t bleach my skin,” she declared during a live Instagram where she was promoting her cosmetic brand Wyn Beauty. “On the video, it’s stage makeup,” she explained. She later explained that she had actually volunteered to organize a school play for her eldest daughter.
“I am a black woman, I love who I am”
“There is something called the sun and in the sun there are different colors that stand out. It’s ridiculous that everyone is like, ‘Oh, she’s bleaching her skin.’ I’m a black woman, I love who I am and I love how I look. And that’s just not my thing.” said the sister of Venus Williams (another legend of women’s tennis).
