It’s no secret that we here at I Hear That Girl! absolutely adore Serena Williams. She embodies the beauty of black women. Everything that defies the European Standard. And I LOVE IT! The Super Star Athlete, Serena covers SELF magazine and what she says about loving herself and accepting her body, is the stuff dreams are made of. She is TRULY a deserving role model for our young girls.
“I love my body, and I would never change anything about it,” she says of dealing with criticism. “I’m not asking you to like my body. I’m just asking you to let me be me. Because I’m going to influence a girl who does look like me, and I want her to feel good about herself.”
She goes on to say she hopes to be a great role model for African-American youth. “I can’t say I am the pioneer because it was Althea Gibson, it was Zina Garrison, it was Arthur Ashe, it was so many people before me. [But] I appreciate being in a position where I was chosen to be a role model,” she explains. “Obviously, being black in tennis wasn’t easy, even in the ’90s.”
Make sure to check out Serena’s full interview with Self, when the September issue hits newsstands August 9th!
