Alex Rodriguez is setting the file straight on his tan that has grabbed folks’s consideration.
Social media customers had been abuzz Friday evening when Rodriguez was sitting courtside on the Timberwolves’ 112-107 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in Minneapolis alongside his health teacher girlfriend, Jaclyn Cordeiro, and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.
Individuals had been questioning what brought about Rodriguez’s darker-than-usual complexion, and the 48-year-old responded on Instagram Saturday evening, telling his 4.2 million followers that he fell asleep within the solar.
“All proper all people, I do know that I’m darkish, however I’m Dominican, and I went on trip and I fell asleep within the solar. So all people settle down,” Rodriguez mentioned in a video which he captioned, “All people settle down, it’s only a tan,” with an emoji of the Dominican Republic flag.
Customers on X expressed shock at Rodriguez’s tan Friday evening.
“Whats occurring with a-rod’s tan???” The Ringer author Wosny Lambre asked, later responding to the previous Yankees star’s rationalization with, “Canine, A-Rod is just not from this planet.”
One consumer who goes by Brody B. mentioned Rodriguez “obtained that Ross Geller particular tan,” referring to the “Mates” episode when David Schwimmer’s character will get an extreme spray tan.
One other X consumer, Josh Cobb, referred to as Rodriguez’s tan “the reverse Sammy Sosa,” referring to the previous Cubs slugger whose pores and skin has lightened drastically since he final performed in 2007 as a consequence of a cream that features bleach.
Rodriguez, who additionally attended the Timberwolves’ 101-86 win over the Nets on Saturday, and Marc Lore are taking on as majority house owners of the Timberwolves this yr, exercising their proper to buy one other 40 p.c of the Wolves and the WNBA’s Lynx to personal 80 p.c of the 2 golf equipment, ESPN reported in December.
Rodriguez instructed Us Weekly in September that he misplaced 32 kilos due to Cordeiro’s health program.