Taylor Townsend made some painful revelations throughout her look on The Pivot Podcast because the doubles world No. 1 shared that she was body-shamed by none aside from her mom and grandmother.
Townsend, who completed as runner-up at this 12 months's US Open alongside Katerina Siniakova, admitted previously that her critics liked to body-shame her and that she had been listening to damaging feedback about her physique look since beginning her tennis journey. However the first individuals to talk negatively in regards to the American tennis participant's physique weren't her critics and doubters, however her members of the family, who used to inform her she shouldn't be carrying swimsuits.
"And I noticed that a number of the voices and a number of the issues and a number of the sensation that I felt and what I’d see after I was wanting within the mirror, it wasn't my voice. It was my mother's voice. It was my grandma's voice. 'Your abdomen's too massive to put on that swimsuit, you’ll be able to't put on two-piece swimsuits.' I can't let you know, I didn't put on a two-piece bikini till I used to be 23, 24," Townsend stated on The Pivot Podcast.
After making this revelation, the American additionally famous that she is now snug in what she wears.
Townsend reveals how Serena Williams helped a couple of years in the past
In mid-2020, Townsend introduced her being pregnant. In 2021 March, she welcomed a child boy Adin Aubrey.
On a extra optimistic be aware, the 29-year-old American revealed on the identical podcast that when she was pregnant, it was American tennis icon Williams who helped her with sure stuff.
“Like, I received the closest with Serena after I was pregnant. I went over to her home, and she or he put an entire Amazon record collectively for me of all of the issues that I wanted to get for the child. And like, these occasions have been, that was essentially the most dialog I had ever had together with her," Townsend stated.
