‘She Just Threw That Wig On’: Serena Williams Fans Believe She’s ‘Lost Herself’ After Video Emerges of the Tennis Star Looking Disheveled
Tennis legend Serena Williams has once again found herself at the center of criticism about her appearance.
After a video surfaced on social media of Williams walking out of the Ritz-Carlton hotel with her husband, Alexis Ohanian, in Paris, reactions from many online users quickly devolved into a flurry of negative comments about her looks, claiming she’s “lost herself.”
It appears that William and her husband were taking a family vacay with the kids away from their Florida home, according to other photos on her and Alexis’ Instagram pages.
However, trolls mostly focused on the tennis star’s frizzy hair and scowling countenance to suggest that something isn’t right in the world of the woman considered by some as the greatest female athlete of all time.
Vendetta Daily posted a video of her wrapped in a long black sweater coat with white trim and sandals on its Instagram page for its 37.8K followers. The cameras captured Williams as she walked with her cellphone in hand and her peach-colored Gucci pocketbook in another.
While the entire clip was no more than 1 minute, followers were quick to weigh in with their takes on why the mother of two small children looked disheveled.
Some comments focused on Williams’ looks, suggesting that she had cosmetic surgery, not unflattering makeup, that has ruined her looks.
“Message to all Black woman, leave your bodies and faces alone!!! Plastic surgery was not created for you,” one person posted. Another said, “Poor thing…who ever worked on her face should get sued…they did a really bad job.”
Other comments focused on her estimated $95 million net worth and opined that “Serena is too rich is too rich to be looking like a hobo.” An Instagram user also wrote, “She just threw that wig on and said let’s go.”
But not everyone sought to tear her down or seemed to be, as one person put it, “mean.”
“Y’all are mean… you never know what people be going through” a fan offered, as another one said, “The greatest tennis player alive and all they think about is her looks.”
This is not the first time that Serena has been under fire for her looks. Even her daughter has harmlessly checked her a time or two.
In 2023, Serena shared a story with her followers a story about the time her eldest daughter, Olympia Ohanian Jr., outed her for wearing a wig. After receiving a compliment on her hair from a “nice lady,” she said the then-5-year-old quickly informed the woman, “It’s a wig.”
Fans could not help but crack up at the child’s innocence, saying, “kids are so savage” and “Kids will always expose you.”
