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Tennis big Serena Williams has opened up her incredible weight loss journey and revealed that she lost £ 31 using a GLP-1 medicine.
The 23rd time Grand Slam Champion revealed in interviews with People magazine and “Today” that she turned to a GLP-1 medicine after struggling with her health after the birth of her second daughter.
In this September 7, 2019, File Photo, Serena Williams will return a shot to Bianca Andreescu from Canada, during the women’s single final in the US Open Tennis Championships in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
“Especially after having my second child, I was never able to be in a healthy weight that I could be on, whether it was my joints or blood sugar levels. It was just always something I was suffering from and many women actually go through this,” Williams said during a performance of “Today” Thursday.
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Williams, 43, said that despite being an educated athlete, she fought to lose weight No matter how active she was. She said it started to take a toll on her joint.
“Whatever I did – run, go, I would go for hours because they say it’s good, I literally played a professional sport – and I could never go back to the place I needed for my health. So, after my other child, it just even got harder. Then I was like, ok, I have to try something else.”
Williams said she decided to be open about her journey to destroy the use of GLP-1 medicine for weight loss.
Serena Williams will be seen on August 21, 2025 in New York City. (Xny/Star Max/GC pictures)
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“A misconception is that it’s a shortcut,” she said to “Today.” “As an athlete and like someone who has done everything, I just couldn’t get my weight to the place where I needed to be in a healthy place – and believe me, I don’t take shortcuts.”
Williams told People Magazine Separate that despite her new look, her self -confidence level has never wobbled. Her decision to make a change was based on something completely different.
“I’ve never felt that pressure to maintain a specific look,” she said. “I always felt comfortable in any size, whether I was much heavier or not. I feel like my body did not like me at that weight. I was in pain in my joints and pain in different areas just because of the extra weight that I am not used to wearing when I had children.”
Serena Williams clings the fist after defeating Qiang Wang from China during the quarterfinals of the US Open on September 3, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
“But the size I was before was nothing wrong with it. It’s just not what I wanted. I just knew I wanted to be where I personally felt comfortable.”
GLP-1’s, also known As GLP-1-agonists, is a type of drug that mimics a natural hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1 that helps regulate blood sugar levels.
