Serena Williams is taking followers abruptly along with her newest “celfie.”
The tennis legend was feeling herself on Aug. 10 on the Fouquet’s New York lodge, and shared pictures from her lodge mirror second on Instagram. Within the first and third flick, Williams strikes two totally different poses in a lodge room, staring unapologetically at her reflection.
For the second image of her carousel, she spotlighted the small print of the pink French-inspired toile wallpaper. Whereas Williams exuded confidence in her pictures, followers weren’t shy about letting her know that one thing appeared off along with her look.
She wore a monochromatic gray outfit which featured a maxi skirt and a sleeveless crop high. The look accentuated her reduce determine by exhibiting her abs and muscular arms. Giving the match a pop of coloration, she had on red-orange heels and wore her signature blonde ombre hair down.
In a single photograph, she glared on the mirror holding her cellphone in a single hand and putting the opposite on her hip. Within the third image, she used the hand that was on her hip and leaned it towards the nook of a door entrance.
She wrote, “However wait, let me take Celfie” within the caption which could possibly be a reference to The Chainsmokers 2014 tune “#SELFIE.”
The submit left followers involved for Williams as many left feedback on their reactions.
One particular person mentioned, “I like you woman…however seeing this new picture of you actually makes me really feel SAD. You have been the epitome of Black Woman Magic and Magnificence earlier than this present journey that you just’ve been on. I pray you discover and love your true middle and self.”
One other particular person wrote, “I just like the previous you higher. It appears that you’re bleaching your pores and skin. Dangerous instance in your daughter and younger black women. You have to be happy with your self. You might be an achieved black girl. Your husband married a darkish pores and skin girl.”
Another person expressing related sentiments commented, “Yeah I don’t like this new Serena! Convey again the thick black girl.”
Williams current weight reduction seems to be intentional because the 23-time Grand Slam winner has been hitting the health club regularly after having her second daughter Adira River Ohanian in August 2023.
Although she is slimming down, followers have been nervous that Williams was dropping her signature determine which included her plump derrière. In her Instagram pictures which are only a few weeks previous, her thighs look smaller than they did in her days of dominating the court docket and followers have been vocal concerning the distinction in her form.
Final 12 months, there was hypothesis that she’s both been bleaching her pores and skin or carrying make-up that’s shades lighter than her precise pores and skin tone. She addressed the rumor head on whereas doing a make up tutorial utilizing her model Wyn Magnificence.
“And no, for you haters on the market, I don’t bleach my pores and skin,” she mentioned earlier than putting the blame on the solar. “There’s a factor known as daylight, and in that daylight, you get totally different colours.”
She known as the pores and skin bleaching rumors “ridiculous” and confirmed that she has no disgrace about her pores and skin tone and who she is.
“I’m a darkish Black girl and I like who I’m and I like how I look and that’s simply not my factor. And if folks do it, that’s their factor, and so they have each alternative and they need to, I don’t choose.”