{"id":1763,"date":"2010-09-07T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2010-09-07T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:56:53","slug":"karens-musings-serenas-new-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/karens-musings-serenas-new-face\/","title":{"rendered":"KAREN&#039;S MUSINGS: SERENA\u2019S NEW FACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>SERENA\u2019S NEW FACE<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boy, was the first week of the 2010 US Open juicy! So, let\u2019s get right to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/injured-tennis-player-serena-williams-watches-her-older-sister-venus-during-open-new-york.jpg\" title=\"injured-tennis-player-serena-williams-watches-her-older-sister-venus-during-open-new-york\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1764\" title=\"injured-tennis-player-serena-williams-watches-her-older-sister-venus-during-open-new-york\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/injured-tennis-player-serena-williams-watches-her-older-sister-venus-during-open-new-york-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Serena's NEW face, debuted this past week-end at the US Open.\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>First of all, more shocking than Andy Roddick\u2019s second round loss was Serena Williams\u2019 face! Am I the only one who noticed she had major face work done??? I can\u2019t find mention of it anywhere. I was shocked when I saw her appearance. She looks like a young Asian girl!<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing wrong with freshening-up every now and again, especially if you don\u2019t look great to begin with, so I\u2019m not putting Serena down for changing her looks a taste. And she still has the same big body and horrible pointy nails. What I <em>am <\/em>questioning is just how she\u2019s confusing her <em>face<\/em> with her <em>feet<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s stated the the reason she couldn\u2019t play in the US Open this year is that she somehow cut her feet on broken glass that she didn\u2019t know was all over the floor of a restaurant in Munich, but doesn\u2019t seem to have any details. And she was shot at her very recent birthday party wearing heels. If it was true about her feet, why hasn\u2019t she named the establishment and sued them? Their negligence would have lead to her missing out on hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1765\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/ser.jpg\" title=\"ser\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1765\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1765\" title=\"ser\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/ser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serena&#39;s OLD face. At the very least she had a shave, which you can tell she needed. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, here\u2019s my theory: she didn\u2019t want to play at the Open this year for several reasons, and she needed an excuse. And at the same time she could have surgical facial improvements. Here are my points:<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, she was ousted last year when her atrocious behavior led to her receiving a point penalty for poor sportsmanship. (You can read all about it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/2009\/10\/12\/sports\">www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/2009\/10\/12\/sports<\/a>. ) So she didn\u2019t want everyone to be talking about it again, which you know they would. It would have been the main topic in all of her press conferences. And she didn\u2019t need the tournament to maintain her number one ranking; only two other players could take it away from her by winning, and she was counting on that not happening. (One is already out, and the other has never won a Major.) By the time she shows up at next year\u2019s tournament, the media will be onto some other story.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the US Open put her on probation last year, so if she had one more outburst, she\u2019d be banned permanently. So, she didn\u2019t need the money, fame, or ranking protection, so she could sit this one out. And maybe even give her big sis, Venus, a better chance to advance, without going through Serena, as they would possibly have to do each tournament to win. What better time for plastic surgery?<\/p>\n<p>But she needed an excuse for the WTA, the governing body of women\u2019s tennis, who might sanction her if she didn\u2019t play a Major when healthy and not retired. (I honestly don\u2019t know all their rules.) So, she concocted the foot surgery one. If someone checked hospital records, they would see she did indeed have surgery. Only it was on her face! And, if the photogs shot her leaving a hospital or doctor\u2019s office, the excuse is her feet. Pretty clever actually.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is only a theory, but check her before-and-after pix. She may have also had foot surgery, but even before I saw her face, I thought something was fishy with the cut-glass story. Just no one is calling her on it. She has no mandatory press conferences, so she doesn\u2019t have to answer any questions about any of it. And the actual tennis commentators tiptoe around the Williams sisters all the time because they don\u2019t want to be accused of racism, which wouldn\u2019t really be the case at all, so they never do much of anything but kiss her ample rear-end. And there\u2019s enough for the whole staff to work on.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the first time ever, I must laud her on this wonderful deception. The press is asking her about her feet, rather than her awful outburst last year, and she gets to look better! And she gives Venus a better chance at winning, or at least of getting to the final. (We don\u2019t know if they would have to play each other along the way because Serena wasn\u2019t in the draw, as she had already declined to enter when it was worked-out.) And we, the audience, don\u2019t have to be subjected to watching her play! It\u2019s actually much easier to tune in knowing she\u2019s not there. There are no losers in this one.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this whole thing is not our business, and she has every right to play or not play whatever she likes. (Well, actually, there are rules about that, but you know what I mean.) And the plastic surgery idea is all speculation on my part, but I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m correct on this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/serena-williams-090310-7.jpg\" title=\"serena-williams-090310-7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1766\" title=\"serena-williams-090310-7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/serena-williams-090310-7-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>But even a new and improved visage couldn\u2019t improve Serena\u2019s behavior. She was as rude as ever, even as solely an audience member. As a participant, she would know more than anyone that it\u2019s disruptive to the players on-court for audience members to enter while they\u2019re playing. That\u2019s why the ushers hold late-comers or coming-back-from-the-grounds folks until the change-overs for the players. But, because she seems to feel she\u2019s above everyone, she came in during play, and the ushers let her because she\u2019s Serena Williams. Terrible. What kind-of fit would she have thrown if someone entered the stadium, and especially moved to an up-close seat, if she were the one on the court? I shudder to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>And, as if that weren\u2019t bad enough, she was chatting up a storm, and texting, every time the camera caught her! Oh, when she wasn\u2019t nodding-off, that is. Players should know better. It\u2019s like if an actor visited another actor\u2019s play and then sat in the audience doing things that any actor on stage would be annoyed by. The people in each profession should have the most exemplary behavior in their own fields.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now I\u2019m out of time and room to discuss all the other goings-on of Week One. So, that column will be up tomorrow, and I hope you get to read it because there was lots to praise about other players. And then there\u2019s Andy Roddick. He abused a linesperson, too, the other night, just in case anyone did miss Serena.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, last thing I just remembered&#8211;the other night, one of the McEnroe bros asked her what she wanted to be remembered for, meaning which title or titles. And she answered something to the effect that she wanted it to be as the tennis player who did so much to help the world. (I\u2019m paraphrasing. ) And then she tried to list her charitable works, but they accidentally cut her off. Just the day before, in another interview, the really lovely and much-loved Kim Clijsters, who beat Serena last year, said, when asked, that she doesn\u2019t want to list her good deeds (again, paraphrasing,) because everyone performs them and should just do so without having to let everyone know about them. And <em>that\u2019s<\/em> what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>[By the way, I really do hate being this snarky in a public forum, rather than with just my pals.\u00a0 and since I don&#8217;t know the woman personally, she may be nice, who knows.\u00a0 But I just feel that her public behavior is so worng so often, that I must call her on some of it.\u00a0 But I really do appluad her new face.]<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u3000<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERENA\u2019S NEW FACE \u00a0 Boy, was the first week of the 2010 US Open juicy! So, let\u2019s get right to it. First of all, more shocking than Andy Roddick\u2019s second round loss was Serena Williams\u2019 face! Am I the only one who noticed she had major face work done??? I can\u2019t find mention of it<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/karens-musings-serenas-new-face\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}