Serena Williams hasn't read an article about herself since 1999

How did you deal with people commenting about your body when you were younger, and how do you deal with it now?I've purposely tuned people out since I was 17. At the time, it was basically newspapers and maybe a website article. Maybe if the web was up back then. Since the day I won the U.S. Open, my very first Grand Slam, I never read articles about myself. If I saw my name mentioned, I'd look away. I looked at the pictures, but that's pretty much it. I didn't want to get too cocky, and at the same time I didn't want to have that negative energy. I don't know why I did it, but I did it. Ever since then I've been really low-key.People have been talking about my body for a really long time. Good things, great things, negative things. People are entitled to have their opinions, but what matters most is how I feel about me, because that's what's going to permeate the room I'm sitting in. It's going to make you feel that I have confidence in myself whether you like me or not, or you like the way I look or not, if I do. [The Fader]