Tatiana Elizabeth
Not Shopping for Lauren Blake’s Apology
… She’s Not Sorry!!!
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Apology not accepted.
That is Tatiana Elizabeth‘s response to Lauren Blake amid their wild face-swapping scandal … with the mannequin telling TMZ Sports activities she would not consider the influencer’s feedback got here from the guts.
Blake — a content material creator with 1.6 million followers — shared a photograph alleging she was on the Miami Open final month … nevertheless it was later found it was truly an image of Tatiana on the U.S. Open two years in the past, with Blake’s face edited over her physique.
Blake confronted a bunch of backlash and issued an apology to TMZ Sports activities earlier than releasing one other assertion on her IG … however Elizabeth informed us she’s not shopping for it.
“I don’t think it’s coming from a sincere place,” Elizabeth mentioned. “I think she just wants the situation to blow over and to get back to scheduled programming.”
“I don’t think she was honest. I don’t think she is authentic in her apology. I think she’s just saying what she thinks she needs to say in order to move past this.”
Elizabeth would not condone the bullying Blake is receiving, however mentioned she introduced the backlash on herself, arguing that folks have a proper to be upset after she tried to shift the blame to her workforce and A.I.
She additionally revealed that Serena Williams truly invited her to that US Open — a milestone she credit to years of onerous work within the modeling business — one thing she says Black girls like her nonetheless need to combat for day by day.
“That was a very exciting experience for me, and I think that historically, Black women have been copied, we’ve been used as an inspo, all these things, and we don’t get our due respect or our credit,” Elizabeth mentioned.
“I’m working ten times as hard as a Black woman to be able to be in these spaces, and you get to just take that in an instant?! I don’t think that’s okay.”
As for Blake, she pointed the finger at an A.I. content material program … and has since vowed to have a much bigger position in her posts shifting ahead.
