Vanessa Bellini, the Berrettini girlfriend, put a crying photo at the center of a Thursday social media gallery while Matteo Berrettini kept moving through Wimbledon. She said the image reflected how she has felt for a good part of her days, turning a private stretch into a public post during his tournament run.
Bellini’s Third Image
Bellini wrote that the third image in the gallery was the one that felt most honest. She said, "Maybe the third picture was supposed to be the first," and added that she is "always used to posting the beautiful, the happy or 'fake happy,' but the third picture is what Vane is now, for quite some time, for a good part of her days."
The post did more than show a sad frame. Bellini said she almost did not share it because it was so personal, then explained that she wanted followers to see a more human side of her rather than only the polished version she usually posts.
Wimbledon Pressure
Berrettini reached that point in the draw by beating Arthur Fils in the second round, and he was scheduled to face Grigor Dimitrov in the third round on Saturday, July 4. That puts Bellini’s post beside the kind of stage where every off-court detail travels fast because the tournament spotlight is already fixed on the player.
She also said, "Maybe I was ashamed to put that as the first photo," then added that she posted the crying image to "observe how I no longer want to see myself or feel myself." Those are not the lines of a polished campaign; they read like an attempt to show the gap between the smile she usually shares and the mood she described as part of her day-to-day reality.
What Bellini Said
Bellini said, "Usually I post the stages, the artists, me when I feel beautiful, when I'm smiling, I post my friends.. well probably 10 minutes before I captured those moments, there was Vane in the third photo." She also wrote that she hoped "showing this side of me will help someone else," and added that "the world is full of people who seem to have their dream lives and on the inside they suffer, a lot, but they don't show and they keep smiling because 'it's normal like that.'"
The post’s sharpest point is that it does not ask followers to look away from the sad image. It asks them to look at it first. For Bellini, that makes the gallery less like a personal update than a deliberate refusal to keep the feed stuck in smile-only mode.
