Serena loves the skin she’s in and she’s made that crystal clear following recent accusations of lightening her complexion.
After posting a video on Instagram showing her in a blonde wig and heavy makeup look, many commenters assumed she had been skin bleaching. However in a IG Live session on Monday (Dec. 2), the tennis icon clarified that she was simply volunteering for her daughter’s play and had been wearing stage makeup.
“For all the haters out there, I do not bleach my skin,” she further explained. “There’s something called sunlight and in different lighting, you get different shades.” Doubling down on her confidence, she added, “I’m a dark, Black woman, and I love who I am, and I love how I look, and that’s just not my thing. And if people do it that’s their thing and they have every opportunity and they should.”
“I don’t judge, but you guys do,” she continued. “But that’s what this world is about and I stay in my lane, the non-judgy one and I keep it. But no, I actually don’t bleach my skin, so can we just kinda clear that up?”
This isn’t the first time the 23-time Grand Slam champ has been accused of bleaching her skin. In 2021, she had the net buzzing when she post-and-deleted a photo that showed her appearing way lighter than her normal complexion.
At the time fans speculated that she either bleached her skin or her makeup artist applied makeup that was much lighter than her skin tone. The picture sparked much conversation, and without hesitation or explanation, the 43-year-old removed the photo.
Among the commentators was Wack 100, who went on a rant about the Black commnity and “self-acceptance.”
“To each his own but I don’t wanna believe this – And if this picture is authentic I wanna say WE AS A RACE have to look at ourselves. NO EXCUSES but Ima speak on it. WE are the first ones to make jokes about a BIG NOSE or LIPS or Kinky hair or how BLACK one is.”
He went on, “This makes a person say well if this is wrong that over there is right ! BEAUTY IS OUR BEAUTY. A Asian woman features may be unattractive to another races eyes but BEAUTIFUL to that RACES eyes —- FOR THE RECORD I LOVE US AND WHAT MAKES US US – let’s not bash but learn so maybe we won’t have another one of our public figures trapped in the twilight zone.”
Take a look at Serena Williams explaining her lighter complexion in her recent video above.
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