{"id":181738,"date":"2025-09-25T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181738\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:50:11","slug":"serena-williams-appalled-by-nyc-hotels-cotton-plant-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181738\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Appalled by NYC Hotel&#8217;s Cotton Plant Decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Serena Williams<br \/>\n                          Appalled By Cotton Plant Decoration<br \/>\n                          &#8230; &#8216;It Doesn&#8217;t Feel Great&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published September 25, 2025 8:42 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                Updated September 25, 2025 9:36 AM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c2aa71c64969469c8627b54655dc4c18_md.jpg\" alt=\"092525_serena_williams_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Instagram\/@serenawilliams<\/p>\n<p>A New York City hotel has drawn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/serena-williams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams<\/a>&#8216; ire &#8230; after she was stunned the business decided to decorate one of its hallways with a cotton plant.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis legend showed disdain for the table adornment on her IG Story on Thursday while she was in the Big Apple helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kim-kardashian\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Kardashian<\/a> with her SKIMS\/Nike launch.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250925_618fa771aedb4e6789172025204502ed\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:44c9ebe0-9931-4b36-9918-51ae0fa4f19e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/618fa771aedb4e6789172025204502ed_md.jpg\" alt=\"Serena-William-ig-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams, 43, can be seen inside the establishment &#8230; zooming in on one of the plant&#8217;s stems.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do we feel about cotton as decoration?&#8221; Williams says in the vid. &#8220;Personally, for me, it doesn&#8217;t feel great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams then picked one of the balls off &#8230; and after she rubbed it on her nail, she shuddered.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250925_f804dbce491149eead33b30c1a02ce2c\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:44c9ebe0-9931-4b36-9918-51ae0fa4f19e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f804dbce491149eead33b30c1a02ce2c_md.jpg\" alt=\"092525-serena-williams-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if Williams takes issue with the actual texture of the plant (after all, sidonglobophobia is a real thing) &#8230; or the history tied to it.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel where Williams stayed for the Nike x SKIMS collaboration has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Appalled By Cotton Plant Decoration &#8230; &#8216;It Doesn&#8217;t Feel Great&#8217; Published September 25, 2025 8:42 AM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3,99,2415,428,2525],"class_list":["post-181738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tennis","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}