Serena Williams sparked conversation after calling out a hotel for using cotton plants as decoration during her recent stay in New York City.

In two Instagram Stories, the 42-year-old tennis icon zoomed in on a cotton stem displayed in a hallway and asked her followers, “How do we feel about cotton as decoration?” She didn’t wait long to answer her own question, adding, “Personally, for me, it doesn’t feel great.”

Williams then plucked one of the cotton balls from the stem, rubbed it across her nail, and visibly recoiled. “So actually, it feels like nail polish remover cotton…unnatural,” she said.

The star did not name the hotel, but her New York trip coincided with the high-profile launch of the SKIMS × Nike collaboration, giving her critique extra visibility.

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