Serena Williams Pens Beautiful Letter on Being Body-Shamed
Tennis legend Serena Williams just birthed a baby daughter, and recently took a moment to write an essay on Reddit about not wanting her daughter to be body-shamed.
“I was looking at my daughter (OMG, yes, I have a daughter 😳) and she has my arms and legs!” she wrote. “My exact same strong, muscular, powerful, sensational arms and body. I don’t know how I would react if she has to go through what I’ve gone through since I was a 15 year old and even to this day. I’ve been called man because I appeared outwardly strong. It has been said that that I use drugs (No, I have always had far too much integrity to behave dishonestly in order to gain an advantage). It has been said I don’t belong in Women’s sports—that I belong in Men’s—because I look stronger than many other women do.”
She continued: “I’m not sure how you did not go off on every single reporter, person, announcer, and quite frankly, hater, who was too ignorant to understand the power of a black woman. I am proud we were able to show them what some women look like. We don’t all look the same. We are curvy, strong, muscular, tall, small, just to name a few, and all the same: we are women and proud!”
Read it HERE.