Even the world’s top athletes are not immune to anxiety over their bodies. Tennis superstar Serena Williams is known for her longstanding excellence in the sport, having won four Olympic gold medals and 23 Grand Slam titles. However, she now admits that her youth was plagued with body image struggles, according to an interview with Net-a-Porter’s magazine, Porter.

Williams, 44, told the outlet that the first 15 years of her 27-year professional tennis career were difficult because of constant criticism directed at her appearance. She had a different build compared to the other athletes, she explained, because she had “big boobs” and “a big butt,” adding that “every athlete was super flat, super thin, and beautiful, but in a different way. I didn’t understand as an athlete how to deal with

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