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Serena Williams is calling a fault connected 1 ridiculous rumor .
Two years aft the 23-time Grand Slam champion stepped disconnected the tennis court, she addressed speculation that claimed she's been lightening her skin.
"For you haters retired there, I bash not bleach my skin," Serena said portion doing her constitution successful a Dec. 2 Instagram Live. "There is simply a happening called sunlight and successful that sunlight, you get antithetic colors."
After all, since putting down her racket professionally successful 2022, the 43-year-old—who shares daughters Olympia , 7, and Adira , 15 months, with husband Alexis Ohanian —is nary longer spending hours connected the tribunal practicing for tournaments.
Serena besides addressed a now-viral clip from past period that had critics speculating she was utilizing bleach, revealing that she was really wearing "stage makeup" astatine her daughter's play.
"I'm calling you retired connected this due to the fact that it is ridiculous," she continued. "Everyone's like, 'Oh, she bleached her skin.' I'm a dark, Black woman, and I emotion who I am, and I emotion however I look."
She added that that quality regimen is "just not my thing," but doesn't justice those who take to bash so.
"If radical bash it, that's their thing, and they person each accidental and they should," she said. "I don't judge, but you guys do. That's what this satellite is about, and I enactment successful my lane—the non-judgy 1 and I support it. But no, I really don't bleach my skin, truthful tin we conscionable kinda wide that up?"
This isn’t the archetypal clip Serena has served up immoderate information astir what it’s similar to beryllium a Black pistillate successful the nationalist eye.
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"It's hard due to the fact that erstwhile you are a idiosyncratic of color, you're expected to—you person to—win truthful galore times much than idiosyncratic else," she told Harper's Bazaar successful July. "To beryllium honest, arsenic a Black woman, we are fundamentally starting astatine the bottom. You don't get paid arsenic much. You don't get arsenic galore opportunities. No substance what you do, it's always, 'Oh, she's mean,' oregon 'Oh, she's this,' and nary of that is needfully true."
But the jock is reclaiming her power.
Opining that we're presently successful " an epoch of pistillate athletes that are almighty and gorgeous and beardown astatine the aforesaid time, and you tin showcase that now," she explained, "Before, it was like, 'Choose. You can't person both.' And present it's conscionable like, 'No, it doesn't person to beryllium that way.' I've ever said, 'You tin beryllium beardown and beauteous astatine the aforesaid time.' Look it up. I've said this for years."
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And erstwhile it comes to her quality game, she’s not acrophobic to plaything big. For instance, she shared that she underwent a stomach-sculpting procedure postpartum .
"She knows aft 2 babies I person been aforesaid conscious of my tummy," she explained connected Instagram successful June. "The results person been amazing. I tin spot advancement with my tegument going backmost to mean and my assurance coming back."
Though it was ever love-all erstwhile it came to her figure.
"Listen my assemblage volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid but neither volition I origin I person 2 astonishing lights successful my life," she continued. "I volition ever emotion my birthing scars but I conscionable wanted to accidental acknowledgment to my person Mia and Nat for letting maine cognize it's good to instrumentality clip for myself distant from enactment and kids."
And she’s not the lone prima keeping it each the mode existent astir the occasional nip oregon tuck. Read connected to spot much celebrities who’ve spoken astir undergoing cosmetic procedures.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Gypsy underwent a rhinoplasty and septoplasty (nose job) successful April 2024, 3 months aft she was released from situation (where she served 7 years for her relation successful the execution of her parent Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard ).
Caroline Stanbury
The Real Housewives of Dubai star publically documented her November 2023 look assistance and the betterment connected societal media.
"I wanted radical to spot how, erstwhile you travel out, the scars and the cuts and what it truly looks like," she exclusively told E! News of the procedure. "I virtually looked similar I'd been successful a car clang and the car had won, but 5 days aboriginal you're presentable. Ten days aboriginal I was successful a edifice wholly fine."
As for wherefore the Bravo prima was truthful unfastened astir her look assistance journey? As she noted, "Being connected a world TV show, evidently it's going to look weird if I travel backmost adjacent play looking 10 years younger, which I do, obviously."
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Selena Gomez
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Brandi Glanville
The erstwhile Bravo prima has been candid astir her integrative country procedures successful the past, including getting a chemoreceptor job, having bosom implants and dabbling with Botox and filler. And now, she's turned to CellSound's assemblage sculpting attraction to tighten her stomach.
"I person existent abs," she told People in an interview published March 21. "I person lines connected my tummy that I haven't had since earlier I got pregnant. I deliberation immoderate parent knows aft kids the elasticity of your tegument volition ne'er beryllium the same."
Ariana Madix
Responding to an Instagram idiosyncratic who accused the Vanderpump Rules prima of getting articulator filler, Botox, jawline contouring with liposuction and eyelid surgery, Madix clapped backmost by confirming each of her past cosmetic procedures .
“i’ll archer you what i’ve had!” she wrote connected Instagram successful July 2024. “you’re partially correct. tox successful 11’s, outer brow, and my neck. ellevate for my cervix successful 2019 by @theneckdoctor minimal articulator filler bc my look is excessively tiny to grip precise overmuch and filler successful my chin. perfectly nary filler anyplace other and def nary bleph yet. anticipation this helps! i’ll support yall posted if one bash thing else.”
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Jill Zarin
"I'm bravely sharing that I had a lower facelift and a mates different insignificant tweaks," Jill said successful a June 4 Instagram video , with a achromatic bandage wrapped astir her head. "I had a abdominous transplant enactment into my hands due to the fact that I hated my hands, and the worst portion was the lipo coming retired of my limb to capable my hands. Believe it oregon not, that's the astir symptom I've had."
The 60-year-old promised that she'll post side-by-side photos of her transformation once she heals, adding, "I conscionable privation to stock my communicative and my journey."
Brittany Cartwright
The Valley star revealed she underwent facial liposuction earlier filming the caller Bravo series.
"I had enactment done connected my treble chin. We telephone it the turkey gobbler, runs successful my family," she said connected the March 14 occurrence of her When Reality Hits podcast. "No substance what I was going through, nary substance however overmuch value I lost, I inactive felt I had thing there."
Martha Stewart
After years of denying cosmetic procedures, the manner adept precocious confessed successful the Feb. 8 occurrence of her eponymous podcast that she gets Botox, fillers and lasers to tighten her skin. "I don't deliberation a batch astir age," she explained, "but I don't privation to look my age."
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Tori Spelling
Sharon Osbourne
In summation to getting candid connected utilizing Ozempic for value loss, the speech amusement big admitted that her 2021 facelift was "the worst happening that I ever did," explaining successful December 2023, "I looked similar Cyclops."
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Lady Gaga
"I've ne'er had immoderate work-work done, but I went done a signifier erstwhile I was smoking cookware erstwhile I was truly obsessed with getting facial injections," the "Born This Way" vocalist told vigor host Howard Stern successful 2013. "I was going to this portion promenade successful Chicago successful the back…Everybody was like, 'You are a seed job.'...I'm telling you, I wasn't precisely successful the champion framework of mind, and I would fume a clump of joints and person immoderate drinks and I would beryllium like, 'Oh, let's spell spot my girl' and we would thrust to this portion promenade and I would get changeable up with a clump of whatever, Juvéderm, and past leave."
She continued, "Now each the worldly is gone. Before I changeable the 'Applause' video, [a lensman friend] was like, 'Gaga, I emotion you but if you don't halt injecting s--t successful your look I'm going to conscionable termination you.'"
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Bethenny Frankel
The Real Housewives of New York star got bosom implants successful 2005, but removed them successful 2008.
"Now I consciousness comfortable," she told Life & Style . "If there's thing you're not comfy with and you tin close it, great."
Olivia Colman
The Crown prima revealed that she's a instrumentality of Botox. "I've had loads," the 50-year-old told BBC Radio 2 .
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Julie Chen
In 2013, The Talk co-host revealed connected the amusement that she got integrative country astatine the opening of her vocation successful bid to marque her eyes look bigger.
"And aft I had it done, the shot did rotation for me," she said. "And I wondered, did I springiness successful to the man?"
She added, "I person to unrecorded with each determination that I've made. And it got maine to wherever we are today. And I'm not going to look back."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"I've done it all," the histrion told The Telegraph in 2002. "I've had a small integrative surgery. I've had a small lipo. I've had a small Botox. And you cognize what? None of it works. None of it."
Jennifer Aniston
"I had [a deviated septum] fixed–best happening I ever did," the histrion told People in 2007. "I slept similar a babe for the archetypal clip successful years. As acold arsenic each the different [rumors], arsenic boring arsenic it sounds, it's inactive mine. All of it. Still mine."
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NeNe Leakes
In 2010, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star revealed that she had had a chemoreceptor job, a bosom assistance and liposuction.
"I'm precise comfy and assured successful myself," she told People . "I conscionable wanted a tune up."
Kim Zolciak
In 2015, the world prima called Dr. Lenny Hochstein her "boob God" doctor for giving her perky breasts. Of course, the world TV property has been an unfastened publication astir her other procedures , including a tummy tuck and articulator injections.
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Lisa Rinna
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills prima had her lips injected with silicone astatine property 24. In 2010, she had immoderate of the filler removed.
"I find it truthful absorbing that it's go specified a large happening due to the fact that I can't archer you however galore girls person done their lips. I consciousness similar I'm a pioneer," she said on Today successful 2013. "I was 1 of the archetypal ones to ever bash it and beryllium honorable astir it."She besides said, "I would bash it again. I ne'er had a vocation earlier I had the lips truthful my lips person had their ain career!"
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Heidi Montag
In 2009, astatine conscionable 23 years old, the Hills star underwent a head-to-toe transformation, having 10 cosmetic procedures done successful 1 day. In summation to Botox, chin reductions and a chemoreceptor job, the world prima also got abdominous injections successful her lips.
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Iggy Azalea
The Aussie rapper said successful the April 2015 contented of Vogue mag that she got bosom implants. "I did alteration something: Four months ago, I got bigger boobs! I'd thought astir it my full life," she revealed.
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Tyra Banks
In her memoir , Perfect Is Boring, the supermodel revealed that she went nether the weapon aboriginal successful her career. "I had bones successful my chemoreceptor that were increasing and itching," she wrote successful her book. "I could respire fine, but I added cosmetic surgery. I admit it! Fake hair, and I did my nose."
Kim Kardashian
"I really, genuinely attraction astir looking good," the SKKN laminitis told Allure for its August 2022 issue. "I astir apt attraction much than 90 percent of the radical connected this planet. It's not casual erstwhile you're a ma and you're exhausted astatine the extremity of the time oregon you're successful school, and I'm each of the above. I bash my quality treatments usually precocious astatine night. After everyone's successful bed, I'm doing laser treatments."
Kim revealed she's besides gotten "a small spot of Botox," but hasn't dabbled with filler connected her lips oregon cheeks, revealing, "No filler. Never filled either one, ever."
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Kristin Cavallari
During an Instagram Stories Q&A connected Aug. 23, the world TV prima didn't shy distant from answering a fan's question astir her boobs. "Gonna support it existent with y'all," Kristin began her response. "Got a assistance aft bosom feeding all 3 kids."
While The Hills alum isn't opposed to cosmetic procedures, she admitted she's "never done" Botox.
"It's not for me. But I've seen it look astonishing connected immoderate people," she wrote. "My interest is that we don't cognize the agelong word effects of it (and I don't mean 5-10 years, I mean similar 20 years) and I deliberation your look is muscle, truthful we request to enactment it retired the aforesaid mode we would immoderate different muscle."
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John Stamos
In his caller memoir, If You Would Have Told Me , John opened up astir feeling insecure with his appearance, which led him to get 2 chemoreceptor jobs. "That nose," helium wrote. "It bothers me."
"My chemoreceptor looks benignant of pushed up similar Peter Pan oregon something," helium shared of the archetypal procedure. "So connected my adjacent hiatus, I person it redone by Michael Jackson's integrative surgeon."
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Sia
The vocalist precocious revealed she got a facelift.
"I'm a popular prima that usually hides my look and doesn't prevarication astir s--t," she said astatine the 5th yearly Daytime Beauty Awards successful Los Angeles connected Oct. 1.. "I got an astonishing look assistance from Dr. Ben Talei. He is incredible. And helium is doing truthful overmuch bully work—and not conscionable for the popular stars of the world."
Nicki Minaj
The rapper revealed she caller went nether the knife. "I had to get a bosom reduction," she told Vogue in a screen communicative published Nov. 9, "and really I emotion it. I utilized to privation a bigger butt, and present I look backmost and recognize however silly that was."
Vanessa Williams
Vanessa precocious shared the cosmetic treatments she gets, telling Page Six , "I'm owed for Botox . I don't bash filler and I person truthful overmuch afloat question that determination is nary Botox astatine all."
When asked if she's thought astir going nether the knife, she replied, "That would beryllium the 1 happening that I would astir apt enactment disconnected for the precise past thing. The exertion present for lifting, sculpting, tightening, is incredible. And there's a instrumentality for anything. I conscionable got a microcurrent happening for your neck, it was called Forma and it's similar a full bundle facial."
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Kim Cattrall
The Sex and the City alum opened up astir wherefore she receives cosmetic injectables.
"I'm successful my 60s present and I'm each astir battling aging successful each mode I can," Kim told The Sunday Times in an interrogation published June 4. "There are fillers, Botox, there's truthful galore antithetic things that you tin analyse and effort and spot if it's for you. It's not conscionable a vanity thing."
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Blac Chyna
The world prima underwent respective cosmetic procedures implicit the years. In March 2023, she underwent bosom and butt simplification country and got her facial fillers dissolved. The pursuing May, arsenic she celebrated her 35th birthday, she reflected connected her previous look connected Instagram, saying successful a video, "I was looking astatine aged pictures, you guys. That look was looking crazy."
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