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AIBU?

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To think that if I was Serena Williams, I'd be a bit disappointed in my wedding photos?

292 replies

IvankaTrudeau · 21/11/2017 11:57

www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-wedding-new-orleans?intcid=inline_amp

From the description, it's clear she went all out, which is fair enough when you've earned millions through your own hard work. And it all sounds incredible, but the pictures in Vogue don't really do it justice, in my opinion. I've seen much cheaper weddings look better (just in terms of framing and how you take the shot etc). Unless she kept all the best pictures private? Or she had multiple photographers and this is just one view?

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NotNowBernard1 · 21/11/2017 16:16

Oh give over with this nasty, catty thread nonsense! As others have said, she sold her pics to Vogue so we're at liberty to gasp in awe or not.

The dress is a bit Emperor's New Clothes - looks bloody ridiculous but because she's SW we're supposed to say it's fab.

Why does Anna Wintour wear sun glasses all the time? Seriously, does she have a vision problem?

Battleax · 21/11/2017 16:28

Well said raisins

Fishface77 · 21/11/2017 16:32

I've always wanted to see Jennifer aniston and Brad pitts wedding pics

ShirleyPhallus · 21/11/2017 16:33

looks bloody ridiculous but because she's SW we're supposed to say it's fab.

What does SW mean?

specialsubject · 21/11/2017 16:44

Found another source of the snaps. Later she put on a lovely slim white dress which didn't just shout 'boobs! This doesn't fit! Huge boobs! ' and looked really good. Original dress designer made a fool of her.

Huge white frills make all adult women look ludicrous. Why no one can see this is beyond me.

RavingRoo · 21/11/2017 17:04

She looked far better than other new mums I’ve seen get married. Give her a break!

LucilleBluth · 21/11/2017 17:13

In the book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari theorises that humans evolved as they did due our ability to gossip. It's a human instinct, just saying.

reachforthestarseveryday · 21/11/2017 17:47

SW - Serena Williams

FeelingAggrieved · 21/11/2017 17:50

Didn't look at them all because of adverts every three photos, but the first few seemed ok. Nothing mind-blowing though.

ShirleyPhallus · 21/11/2017 18:12

Doh! Blush thanks reachforthestarseveryday!

VladmirsPoutine · 21/11/2017 20:02

All these micro-aggressions. Pathetic. Pity the black woman that dared marry the love of her life without bothering to get her pictures photoshopped. She should have just abandoned her tennis career and shagged a man and got a deal on some sort of magazine.

specialsubject · 21/11/2017 20:05

She did get a deal with a magazine...

Still an awful dress on anyone of any colour or shape. The third dress is lovely.

VladmirsPoutine · 21/11/2017 20:06

I'm not even afraid to say it. MN is patently racist. Pearl clutching fools. I know someone will come along to say 'well if it was victoria beckham' or whatever whomever it'd be the same thing. Nope. Fuck all that. And it didn't start with Serena.

SnowBallsAreHere · 21/11/2017 20:14

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Nicknacky · 21/11/2017 20:15

Why has race been brought into it?

SuperBeagle · 21/11/2017 20:19

I think she looks great.

The dress isn't to my taste, but she looks happy and healthy, and her baby is bloody gorgeous.

specialsubject · 21/11/2017 20:22

Ffs....

FlowerPot1234 · 21/11/2017 20:25

VladmirsPoutine
I'm not even afraid to say it. MN is patently racist

Kindly cite the racist comments then.

Shock
DownTheChimney · 21/11/2017 20:25

Behave yourself VladmirsPoutine, people have been giving their opinions, albeit a few bitchy ones, but it is not because she is black Hmm

lifeisasongworthsinging · 21/11/2017 20:34

Horrible, bitchy post and thread. Serena looks lovely. Do excuse her for not having perfect perky boobs at this time. Is this a mean girls moment...? Are you wanting to lead on to ever more horrible comments about Serena Williams in a dress....? because there are a lot of those nasty comments floating around, aren't there? Which you are no doubt entirely aware of, OP. Good for Serena. She's had her baby, is marrying her man, and Im quite sure negative naysayers with their nasty animosity can't put a dent in her happiness.

DrWibley · 21/11/2017 20:39

She looks brilliant. Bet they had a smashing time, and the wee knitted baby shoes are just perfect.

Battleax · 21/11/2017 20:47

I'm not even afraid to say it. MN is patently racist. Pearl clutching fools. I know someone will come along to say 'well if it was victoria beckham' or whatever whomever it'd be the same thing. Nope. Fuck all that. And it didn't start with Serena.

Vladimir when you say things like that, it makes it sound like "racist micro aggressions" are an irrational thing in the eye of the beholder. Please don't undermine the anti-racist cause like that.

lifeisasongworthsinging · 21/11/2017 20:51

Vladimirs is right about MAN racism. The number of golliwog threads, the wide eyed pretence with the silly "I Don't Understand Whhhhhhy" goady titles. "oh we've allllways had this toy at home growing up..everybody did..blah blah.

Any excuse to antagonise, because they know there are black women here

The Beyonce is ugly/talentless threads too. It's not that white women aren't spoken about. It's that black women are spoken about in a particular way, and particularly Beyonce and Serena. It ALWAYS leads to racist comments.

In Beyonce's case, the whole intimation that black women making some kind of statement is a "who do they think they are" thing. Serena - the usual type comments. We all know and see what they are, and this post is bound to bring them out

Why tell a poster to provide proof? The threads must still be here. Unless MN deletes them.

Pretending not to see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

The only saving grace is decent posters on here who also don't buy into racism. I guess they're the type that didn't have offensive toys that they defend ownership of to the hotel. & see Serena, Beyonce et al as women like any other woman.

In fact has Beyonce been mentioned negatively by association in this thread as yet? Early days still, tho

One of the greatest female athletes of our time and im reading comments about how her boobs look in a dress ffs

CousinQuandry · 21/11/2017 20:51

I was commenting on the quality of the photographs, as was the OP of this thread and many other contributors to the thread.

lifeisasongworthsinging · 21/11/2017 20:52

Autocorrect doesn't like MN..*MN racism