Model Tatiana Elizabeth Refuses to Accept Lauren Blake's Apology Amid Face Swap Scandal

Apology not accepted.

That's Tatiana Elizabeth's response to Lauren Blake amid their wild face-swapping scandal ... with the model telling TMZ Sports she doesn't believe the influencer's comments came from the heart.

Blake -- a content creator with 1.6 million followers -- shared a photo alleging she was at the Miami Open last month ... but it was later discovered it was actually a picture of Tatiana at the U.S. Open two years ago, with Blake's face edited over her body.

Blake faced a bunch of backlash and issued an apology to TMZ Sports before releasing another statement on her IG ... but Elizabeth told us she's not buying it.

"I don't think it's coming from a sincere place," Elizabeth said. "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 doesn't condone the bullying Blake is receiving, but said she brought the backlash on herself, arguing that people have a right to be upset after she tried to shift the blame to her team and A.I.

She also revealed that Serena Williams actually invited her to that US Open -- a milestone she credits to years of hard work in the modeling industry -- something she says Black women like her still have to fight for every 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 said.

"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."