Serena Williams Opens Up About Losing 31 Pounds With Weight-Loss Medication
Many have marveled at tennis icon Serena Williams’ weight loss journey, but some may not know that she received some help along the way. The star athlete shared she used […] The post Serena Williams Opens Up About Losing 31 Pounds With Weight-Loss Medication appeared first on Essence.
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Many have marveled at tennis icon Serena Williams’ weight loss journey, but some may not know that she received some help along the way. The star athlete shared she used weight loss drugs to help achieve her fitness goals in a recent interview with the Today show. Williams began a class of weight loss medications called GLP-1 receptor agonists, which include common drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro.
“As an athlete and as someone who has done everything, I just couldn’t get my weight to where I needed to be at a healthy place, and believe me, I don’t take shortcuts. I do everything but shortcuts,” Williams said while on TODAY.
During the interview, Serena also explained how her weight had always remained at a certain point, despite her being an active athlete.
“I literally was playing a professional sport, and I could never go back to where I needed to be for my health, for my healthy weight, no matter what I did,” she said. “I would always lose a lot of weight, and then I would stay. No matter what I did, I couldn’t go lower than that one number.”
The entrepreneur has managed to lower her weight below that point, having lost 31 pounds to date since consistently taking the medication in April. In addition to looking snatched, another driver for Serena to use weight loss drugs was health concerns. The four-time Olympic gold medalist shared that diabetes runs in her family, and she was worried about her knees. African American adults also have a higher risk of being diagnosed with the health condition. She also hoped that losing weight would relieve pressure on her knees.
“I had a lot of issues with my knees, especially after I had my kid,” she said. “That, quite frankly, definitely had an effect on maybe some wins that I could have had in my career.”
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