Worth the Weight: Serena Does Right Thing With Body Issue
Posted on | October 12, 2009 |
by Greg Couch
Filed under: WTA
Serena Williams appeared nude, or at least awfully close, on the cover of ESPN the Magazine’s The Body Issue last week, and there was probably some uncomfortable line crossed for women’s sports between selling sex and sport.
But if so, it was worth it. Williams has found a great new role, an important role, though the message would have come through much stronger without air-brushing, by celebrating form exactly the way form is. Heaven forbid if any photo-shopping was involved.
Williams looks great in the magazine, as do, frankly, all the other athletes, male and female, inside. But Williams is pushing the line here more than most of the others, and I’d just like to say this:
Good for her. Somehow, we have pushed a dangerous ideal on young girls everywhere, celebrating size zero walking down a runway. Why do we want girls to feel like zeroes anyway?
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