‘I DON’T WANT TO BLEND IN’
Oct 16, 2020
4 minutes
COMPILED BY LAVERN DE VRIES
‘In this society women aren’t expected to be that future leader’
SHE’S topped Forbes magazine’s list of the highest-paid women in sport four times in a row and has made a staggering $93 million (R1,5 billion) in career prize money – twice as much as any other woman.
Yet despite her spectacular success, Serena Williams says she feels “undervalued and underpaid” and has had to grow a thick skin to deal with the rampant sexism and racism she’s experienced on court. Not to mention body shaming.
In a new interview with British Vogue, the tennis superstar talks candidly about how tough it is being a black woman in what she says
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