Happiness Quote by Anna Kournikova

Sexiness, in Anna Kournikova's framing, isn’t a fixed trait you either “have” or don’t; it’s a mood, a private climate that happens to show up on the surface. That’s a savvy repositioning from an athlete who spent much of her public life being appraised like a magazine cover first and a tennis player second. By making sexiness contingent on feeling “happy inside,” she pulls the concept away from the audience’s gaze and back into her own body, her own day, her own mental state.

The line works because it refuses the usual script without sounding defensive. She doesn’t scold the culture for objectifying her; she quietly changes the rules. “It all depends” is soft language with hard boundaries: you don’t get to declare me sexy just because you’re looking. I do, when I’m aligned with myself. That’s an emotional metric, not a visual one, and it subtly demotes everything external - makeup, angles, approval - to supporting cast.

There’s also an athlete’s pragmatism baked in. “Feeling” is performance-adjacent: confidence, energy, ease. Kournikova links desirability to wellbeing, which reads like an early, mainstream version of today’s self-worth rhetoric, minus the branding. In the late-90s/early-2000s celebrity sports machine, where her image often traveled faster than her results, this is a small act of authorship: the body people talk about is still hers to interpret.