Tennis Big Serena Williams refers to weight loss and GLP-1

Tennis is great Serena Williams She told about her incredible weight loss journey, showing she had lost 31 pounds with the help of GLP-1 medicines.

23-times A great slam The champion opened in an interview with the magazine People and “Today” that she turned to the GLP-1 medicines after she fought health after the birth of her second daughter.

On this on September 7, 2019, a photo, Serena Williams returns a shot to Bianka Andreec, from Canada, during the finals of the women’s singles finale of the New York Tennis Championship. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

“In particular, after my second child, I never was able to be in a healthy weight in which I could be, whether it would have joints or blood sugar. “Today” Thursday.

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Williams, 43, said that despite the prepared athlete, she fought lose weight No matter how active it was. She said she began to charge for her joints.

“No matter what I was doing – running, I walked, I would go for hours, because they say it was well, I literally engaged in a professional sport – and I could never go back to my health. Then after my second child, it was even stronger. So I liked, well, I should try something else.”

Williams said she had decided to be open in her way to devote the use of GLP-1 medicines for weight loss.

Serena Williams is visible on August 21, 2025 in New York. (XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

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“A misconception is that it is a label,” she said today. “Like an athlete, and as a man who did everything, I just couldn’t get my weight where I needed to be in a healthy place – and believe me, I don’t take shortcuts.”

said Williams Magazine Separately, despite its new appearance, its level of confidence never hesitated. Her decision to make changes was based on something completely different.

“I never felt this pressure to keep a certain look,” she said. “I always felt comfortable in any size, let me be much heavier or not. I feel my body did not love me with such weight. I had joint pain and pain in different places only with excess weight I was not used as I had children.”

Serena Williams squeezed his fist after winning Van Van from China during the quarter -finals of the US Open on September 3, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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“But the size I was before, there was nothing wrong with that. That’s just not what I wanted to have. I just knew I wanted to be where I personally felt comfortable.”

GLP-1, also known As agonist GLP-1, It is a type of drug that mimics a natural hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1, which helps regulate blood sugar.

Angelica Stabile Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

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