The entrepreneur defended his spouse’s appears and slammed the critics for not understanding how lighting works in footage. 

Williams herself additionally spoke out over the bleaching allegations and outrightly denied doing something to change the colour of her pores and skin. 

The drama unfolded after Williams took to X to share heartwarming photographs of her household at her sister, Venus Williams’ wedding ceremony.

Within the pictures, the tennis legend was captured wearing a classy white quantity as she crouched subsequent to her husband and two youngsters. Two-year-old Adira and eight-year-old Olympia additionally made the reduce, wearing matching gentle blue clothes. 

Williams wrote within the caption, “Pleasure doesn’t at all times roar, typically it whispers. [It’s] vital to savor these candy moments… I like this image, so I needed to share it with you.”

When customers within the remark part started to accuse the tennis legend of bleaching her pores and skin, Ohanian quoted the image with the remark, “The place are all of the feedback from idiots who don’t perceive how images lighting works.”

A critic replied to his tweet, writing, “Alexis desires Black individuals to imagine we don’t know what images lighting appears like vs blatant pores and skin lightening.”

Nevertheless, he clapped again, writing, “Or: photographs from the identical occasion can look completely different based mostly on lighting.”

This isn’t the primary time the Golden Slam winner has been accused of bleaching her pores and skin. In early December 2025, Williams brazenly addressed the bleaching allegations, making it clear that she has accomplished nothing to vary the colour of her pores and skin. 

In accordance with PEOPLE Journal, the 44-year-old athlete was within the technique of recording a make-up tutorial for her model, Wyn Magnificence, when she introduced the subject up. 

“After which I put simply that impartial colour, that’s truly my pores and skin colour, and no, for you haters on the market, I don’t bleach my pores and skin… There’s a factor referred to as daylight, and in that daylight, you get completely different colours,” she mentioned as she utilized her make-up. 

Williams made it clear that she is pleased with her pores and skin colour, the best way it’s, and referred to as the bleaching allegations “ridiculous.”

She added, “Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, she bleached her pores and skin.’ I’m a darkish, Black lady, and I like who I’m, and I like how I look.” 

Williams additionally made it clear that whereas she holds no judgment towards individuals who resolve to bleach their pores and skin, bleaching is simply not her factor. 

Whereas Williams firmly denied the bleaching rumors, she has at all times been open concerning the work she has accomplished on her physique. 

In June, she revealed that she underwent a radio frequency remedy in Paris to tighten her abdomen. She shared a video of herself mendacity on a desk whereas the gadget was getting used on her.

Within the caption, she revealed that she has at all times been “self-conscious” of her tummy and determined to do one thing about it as quickly as she received time away from the children and from work.

Bleaching isn’t the one factor Williams has needed to deal with not too long ago. She additionally needed to clear the air about whether or not or not she was pausing her retirement to return to tennis. 

In accordance with The Blast, final month she took to X to close down the claims, writing, “Omg y’all I am NOT coming again. This wildfire is loopy.”