“I can’t take anymore negativity and lies” – Serena Williams explains why she avoids weighing scales after becoming ‘kinder’ about body image issues
Serena Williams is opening up about a recent health scare, revealing she had a grapefruit-sized cyst removed from her neck.
Williams, 43, shared in a TikTok video Tuesday that she first noticed a lump on her neck in May.
After undergoing testing, the mother-of-two said she learned the cyst was benign but said she noticed it “kept growing” on her skin.
When the cyst grew to be the size of a grapefruit, Williams said she was advised by her doctors to have it removed to prevent it from leaking or becoming infected.
“So this is me removing it,” Williams captioned the video, which showed clips of her in the hospital after surgery. “I am feeli[n]g so grateful and fortunate everything worked out, and most of all, I’m healthy.”
“Mommy is suffering, but mom has to keep showing up,” Williams says in the video, in which she is seen wearing a bandage.
In addition to Olympia, Williams and her husband Alexis Ohanian are also the parents of a 1-year-old daughter named Adira.
Retired tennis star Serena Williams announced on Wednesday that she had a benign branchial cyst removed from her neck.
The 43-year-old Williams said on social media that the cyst that was “the size of a small grapefruit” and deemed herself “OK.”
Williams added that the cyst was found in May and showed video of herself in a hospital bed.
“They said I don’t need to get it removed if I don’t want,” Williams wrote. “So I did not get it but it kept growing. I decided to get more test and 3 test and one biopsy later everything is still negative but doctors advised I get it removed asap because it was the size of a small grapefruit and it could get infected or worse leak.”
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