In The Arena: Serena Williams docuseries offered fans many backstories about the legendary American tennis player, who wrote the history of world of sport (I have said it many times and I always want to emphasize it: Serena is the greatest athlete of all time).
In one of the most significant passages, the legendary American talked about how difficult was her career and and how many prejudices she had to face. She said she was a black woman with a figure but to many she was just a big fat cow, comments that reached her in 2007.
"They were used to seeing women who didn't have a figure, and I was a black woman with a figure, and that doesn't make you bad, or it doesn't make you good. It just makes you a girl with a butt and a small waist. The consensus was that I was a big fat cow," she explained.
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Serena also opened up about the death of her sister Yetunde, explaining how the hardest part was explaining everything to the kids.
"Going to Australia, I was in a really bad place emotionally. I was dealing with a lot of things and I wasn't dealing with them well. I just remember being in Australia and playing and playing and trying not to think about Yetunde, but you can't not…
