Serena Williams has a message for her haters.
The 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion, 43, has hit back at recent speculation on social media that she has lightened her skin. Williams sparked chatter last week after sharing a video of herself at a school event for her and husband Alexis Ohaniandaughter, Olympia, 7. (The couple also shares a daughter, Adira, 15 months.)
During the Instagram live video on Monday, December 2, Williams shared her makeup routine with fans and called out the gossip.
“I usually go back a third time and then I put on this exact neutral color that’s actually my skin tone. And no, for you haters out there, I don’t bleach my skin,” Williams said while applying makeup under her eyes.
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She added: “There is something called sunlight and in that sunlight you get different colors.”
Williams said she was in “stage make-up” in the video, which fueled speculation, explaining that she was a volunteer in Olympia’s school play.
“Yeah, I’m calling you out on that because it’s funny that everyone’s like, ‘Oh, she bleaches her skin.’ I’m a dark-skinned woman and I love who I am and how I look,” Williams said.
“It’s just not my thing and if people do that, that’s their thing and they have every option and they should… I’m not judging, but you do,” she continued. “That’s the point of this world, and I stay in my lane, the one without judges, and I keep it. But no, I don’t actually bleach my skin. So can we just get this straight?”
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In addition to clearing up speculation about her skin color, Williams also supported her husband through a recent health scare. Ohanyan, 41, shared last week that he had thyroid surgery to prevent cancer.
“After tracking some suspicious thyroid nodules for the past 4 years, I recently had half of them surgically removed,” Ohanian inscriptions post on Instagram on Thursday, November 28. “The nodules were getting bigger and the last biopsy revealed that they were very likely to become cancerous.”
Ohanian shared that his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was his age and ended up dying of brain cancer “a decade or so later.”
“I hate cancer,” he continued. “I wasn’t going to risk it.”
