Serena Williams Hates Her Thighs, Mourns Her Murdered Sister

people.com:

There were a lot of comments about your size. Was that strange?
Yes. For some reason, everyone is obsessed with weight. Are you bigger? Are you smaller? And everyone cares about that! It's insane. Some days, I'll be bigger. Other days, I'll be smaller. It's not a big deal.

You mention that in your memoir. But just a few sentences later, you say that you're insecure about your body.
I think every female does that. We think we look good one day, and then the next day �" or the next minute �" we're insecure about something. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and am like, 'I want to lose my inner thigh. I've got to do an hour of cardio today,' or whatever. I try not to do it, but the insecurity comes back sometimes.

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Comments

[asap12]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUFX8DmKcE&feature=related

[MrOlympia]

This woman has the best body I've ever seen on an athlete. Absolutely beautiful bod. ESPECIALLY the thighs. I can see how the testosterone challenged could feel overwhelmed . Everyone can't handle that much sexuality..

[Tubalcain]

I love her thighs...she has an excellent body. To each his own. I personally don't like grown women with bodies like teenage boys. Lindsay Lohan---yuk

[drymartini1]

Lindsay Lohan...oy vey....love that skinny look.

takes all kind to make a world doesnt it.

[Dupree]

There was a time when beauty was defined on a woman as a healthy and hour glass figure complete with a slightly rounded belly. Then Twiggy came along and change the landscape of what constituted beauty and then came the world obsession for the thin and lean look.

She is a beautiful and very healthy looking woman. It is a tragedy that the article spent more time on the superficial rather than substance. She lost her sister and that should have been discussed in more depth other than her legs or thighs.

[MrOlympia]

The "World" did NOT become obsessed with the thin lean look". White America did.

[stagebandman]

Why, oh why would you interview someone about her murdered sister, and have 2/3 of the article about her self-image and how she thinks about her legs? Whoever put that article together should be fired immediately! Looks like all those comments about People Magazine in The Big Chill were right.

Oh, and I was gonna make a comment about Serena's thighs, but considering the other subject, it would be in very bad taste.

[slaxx]

embrace yourselves, ladies.

[blimie]

She didn't say she hates her thighs. She says she has her insecure days. Please don't put words in her mouth. It's disrespectful to a tremendous talent.

[Agentlady007]

OMG. I did not know her sister was killed. Jesus

[piul05]

Both sisters are great and have that look of strong, proud Amazons. I can see them fretting over appearance and some days wanting to look like Halle Berry or Thandie Newton, but they are beautiful in a different, powerful way.

On their sister's murder; I have two of my own whom I love dearly, and I would be devastated if anything like that happened to any of them - I do hope the Williams eventually overcome their grief and are left only with fond, happy - even though bittersweet - memories.

[ForeByeFore]

Nice post!

[brooklyncitizen]

Amazing young woman and so balanced. I don't believe she's concerned about her thighs.
LOL

[katocat]

She is beautiful just as she is.

[VJKramer]

I don't follow tennis, so hadn't really looked at Serena closely, but saw her on an old Ellen Degeneres show and thought that she looked very beautiful and healthy.

[kapalabhati]

Can you say nonsequitur?

[Sharon Jefferson]

I don't believe she is as insecure about her thighs as she says. She been in swimsuit layouts in "Ebony" and "Sport Ilustrated" magazines. Obviously she knows she has a great body. In my opinion she wants to sell books and believes she has to pander to those people who are jealous of her beautiful shape, confidence, money and success.

It would really be sad if she is insecure about her thighs. It would only mean that she is giving in to a very narrow European standard of beauty. Serena has the perfect body that she got through hard work and good genes. If she's not proud of it she should be.

[Nommo]

Her greatest accomplishment is, along with her sister, is their dominance from without. I can remember the initial shock their appearance caused as they slayed one sacred cow after another. Unprecedented and not likely to be followed, that kind of sister act.

They used tennis instead of being used by tennis.

So she has every right, like just about all the women I've known, to fret about her appearance now and then.

[barackobama4prez]

Oh I love those thighs...and everything else ;)

[katocat]

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