Serena Williams left uncomfortable with NYC hotel's cotton plant decoration: 'Doesn't feel great'

daily mail ^ | 9/25/2025 | JAKE FENNER, US SPORTS WRITER

[RummyChick]

I hope none of the products she promotes have any cotton in them

[DouglasKC]

Was she afraid she would be asked to pick it? Probably most of the time this was done by poor whites.

[butlerweave]

When did she pick cotton ? LOL

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

My grandmother picked cotton.

[Brian Griffin]

She’s probably one of the few people in NYC that ever saw a cotton plant and knew what it was.

[metmom]

Well, oil is bad so synthetics are out.

Cotton is bad so cotton clothes are out.

She can wear wool, if she can stand the itching if that’s not bad because or *animal cruelty*.

That doesn’t leave her a lot of options to wear to keep warm.

[Hyman Roth]

Does she take aspirin?

[RummyChick]

only time

[Paladin2]

Did she feel an urge to pick some cotton?

[butlerweave]

Drama Queen

[piasa]

So did mine, and all her sisters, and her mother.

Slaves were tasked with growingvtobacco and indigo, sugar cane and corn, too, among other things, and with raising hogs, salting fish, etc.

She cannot hide from them all.

[wardamneagle]

Attention grabbing whore.

[Skywise]

I’m sure she only wears synthetics and her Nike product line, while mostly synthetics, does have some 100% cotton materials.

[Allegra]

Oh, the poor dear!

[Flycatcher]

She’s donning long, straight, blonde hair.

Thats cultural appropriation.

Cancel her!

[ChuckHam]

I’m white bread and my mom picked cotton back in the day.

[blackdog]

How’s those 600 count cotton sheets, Serena?

[servo1969]

How much cotton was she wearing at the time? Did any of it trouble her?

[chuckee]

She;s afraid of boll weevils. You never know where or when they’ll strike.

[crusty old prospector]

My mother picked cotton in Mississippi.