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]

Serena Williams has spoken of her discomfort after she spotted a cotton plant in a New York City hotel.

The retired tennis star was in the Big Apple on Thursday after promoting Kim Kardashian's SKIMS/Nike launch the day prior.

The 43-year-old recorded her walk down the hallway of an undisclosed hotel and spotted a table with a vase of cotton plants.

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So cotton isn’t the fabric of her life?

Or is it too much the fabric of her life?

How decorative is a cotton plant, and would a decorative cotton plant really remind someone of the old time cotton fields?

[Bonemaker]

I think it’s beautiful!

[wardaddy]

What an entitled idiot

[dwg2]

That picture makes me want to run and scream. It’s hideous. Then there is a picture of cotton on it’s stem. Kinda pretty. Sorry, who cares what the “former tennis player” thinks or says. These people with their oversized ego and self-importance. Do everyone a favor and blow away.

[Paladin2]

Cotton is comfortable, organic, non-GMO, renewable, Gluten Free, and totally non-Racist.

It's a fact, Jack.

[Texas resident]

Colonel Kurtz: “The Horror”.

[Colt1851Navy]

Mama plowed fields with Grandpa’s two mules, needless to say I never raised my voice toward her. Poor old Grandpa had a shortage of boys and farm help. I doubt she plowed very much.

[Texas resident]

I worked for a cotton processing company for about 10 years.
The machines were in cotton gins. A lot of the workers in the plants were black men. They didn’t give a damn about the history. They were there for a job and they worked hard.

Every bale of cotton that left the gin put $$ in their pockets.

[Delta 21]

Its forbidden. Cotton, and watermelon and Salsa and Taco Bell and now your nightmares are invaded by ancient white soft fluffy plant that your ancestors here helped turn it into big$$.

Someone has this on a timer. It has happened in years past.

[arthurus]

Serena likely believes that cotton in all its forms and uses should be ablished in the USA. That would, of course, be a boost to the oilcos.

[Albion Wilde]

And all of us Irish descendants need to stop hotels from serving English muffins! It reminds us of our oppressors in the Potato Famine! aaaaaaarrrrggghhhh!

[Albion Wilde]

Phil Robertson picked cotton. He died a billionaire. Serena has also been financially blessed beyond 99.99% of all Americans. She needs to look at that cotton and say, “Is this a great country, or what?”

[wardaddy]

I remember racially soft freepers used to wax how hot she was

I was like Jesus beam me up

[wardaddy]

Does her white girl hair make her feel like plantation. Masters daughter

Be careful some black brother who likes raping blondes might truly victimize her

[maddog55]

Another dumb ass liberal c

[Albion Wilde]

She has/can wear cotton, make commercials for clothes that are cotton, but because shes black somehow can’t look at a cotton plant.

I hear that the plantation owners gave the slaves food to eat. How insensitive of hotels to serve food to today's black people. It makes them remember when they were slaves. Oh, wait...

[RummyChick]

you gotta see the video of it.

https://x.com/CelebRapInsider/status/1971378306034659609/video/2

So she obviously has used a cotton ball for removing nail polish...but then look at her reaction. ROFLMAO

[MikelTackNailer]

For all we know she may have been to a “Diddy Party” or two, where Mr. Rap Genius wasn’t above hiring other blacks to be servile and literal party favors for his guests.

But that’s not oppressive or hypocritical because he’s black.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yep

[Lil Flower]

Does it cause her distress to see it hanging on a rack in a clothing store? How about wearing it? Ridiculousness