Serena Williams fumes ‘I can’t take anymore negativity and lies’ in rant over avoiding using weighing scales ever again

SERENA Williams has revealed that she won’t step on the scales anymore.

The tennis icon, 43, retired from the sport after the 2022 U.S. Open.

Williams is widely regarded as the greatest female tennis player of all time, having won 23 majors in singles during her glittering career.

During her playing days, she spoke of body image expectations faced by women in sports.

And earlier this week, she revealed on X that she doesn’t even bother to weigh herself anymore.

“I can’t take anymore negativity and lies,” her post began.

“And that’s why I won’t get on scales anymore. . . Can you relate?”

Williams took a break from tennis in 2017 as she became a mom.

She gave birth to daughter Olympia, now seven, in September of that year.

The former world No1 later returned to the sport, reaching several more major finals as a mother.

Williams likes to use her social media platform to preach positivity among her followers.

Last month she wrote on X, “Before you go to bed tonight look yourself in the mirror and say ‘you are gorgeous. You are beautiful and you are loved’. Love ya.”

She later added, “The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. . .”

In 2014, Williams discussed body image as a female athlete during an interview.

“When I was young I thought I should be built more like an athlete – long and lean – not with a womanly figure,” she told Fitness Magazine.

“Unless I’m eating really healthy, I feel that way almost every other week.

‘A CERTAIN WAY’

“I feel as if I can do better and be smaller, which I think is just a natural thing for women to feel.

“We’re taught that we have to look a certain way.”

Williams won the U.S Open six times during her playing days.

So it was fitting that the final event of her career was played at Flushing Meadows.

Having announced her upcoming retirement in Vogue, Williams defeated Danka Kovinic in round one on a packed, star-studded Arthur Ashe Stadium.

She then upset second seed Anett Kontaveit in round two, before falling to Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic in the final match of her storied career.

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