Serena Williams is adamantly denying she's making major changes to her appearance after a recent video of the retired tennis superstar went viral ... saying speculation she lightened her skin is BS!
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00:00Serena Williams, who is clapping back at the people who had some very severe comments about a video
00:06that she and her husband posted last week.
00:10This video went viral, they were, because, well, people thought that what they saw here was evidence
00:17that Serena was lightening her skin with makeup or a filter or something,
00:24but a lot of people felt like this was her, essentially, they were saying she's ashamed of being black.
00:30Which is bizarre, because...
00:31That they would come for Serena on that, but they did, and she responded to it now.
00:37So she was doing one of the Get Ready With Me videos where she's putting on her makeup,
00:43and she was talking about the kind of makeup that she was using,
00:47and it must have triggered her and reminded her of that video and what people were saying.
00:52Or she did this intentionally.
00:55For you haters out there, I do not bleach my skin.
00:58There is a thing called sunlight, and in that sunlight, you get different colors.
01:03And if I'm not posting and recorrecting my pictures and posting from my daughter's...
01:11What is it? She had a play that I was volunteering on and had stage makeup on.
01:16Yes, I'm calling you out on this, because it is ridiculous that everyone's like,
01:20Oh, she bleaches her skin. I'm a dark black woman, and I love who I am, and I love how I look,
01:26and that's just not my thing, and if people do it, that's their thing, and they have every opportunity,
01:31and they should, I don't judge. But you guys do.
01:34She's pissed.
01:35She should be, because she's been at the...
01:37Like, these rumors have been swirling around her for a long time.
01:40I think people just need to step back and realize that when we knew Serena,
01:44or like, you know, when she was in the spotlight, she was a tennis player,
01:47training in the sun every single day, and now she's not in the sun as much,
01:51and it's wintertime, like, people just get light, like, they get lighter,
01:54like, they get their natural shade, and I think that that's just what's happening here.
01:58She's not in the sun every day. She's literally saying the sunlight makes you look different,
02:02and that's true, that's facts. On top of that, she's using a filter she has on stage makeup.
02:07I think people just need to just kind of chill out, leave her alone, and go on about their day.
02:11She's rich, she's happy, move on.
02:12You said something that I never heard.
02:14So this has been something that's dogged her? Because I never heard this before.
02:181000%. This has been something that's followed her for a long time,
02:21that she's been whitewashing herself, not just her skin,
02:23but she wants to be a white woman in general.
02:26You know, she's married to a non-African American man.
02:29People feel that they don't act or come out and seemingly are as pro-black as they should be.
02:35Hi, this is Curtis from Los Angeles, California, and she's Serena Williams.
02:39She didn't even have to address this rumor.
02:41I think it's egregious for people to assume she's lightening her skin or bleaching off of one video,
02:47but I wish as a society we can graduate from focusing on what people are doing with their bodies anyway.
02:53Yeah, I don't know if the internet is ever going to graduate from that class.
02:56I'm really stunned by what you guys just said.