Ex-tennis star Serena Williams
Losing injection injections helped you lose 14 kilos
Serena Williams lost 14 kilos – but not in a natural way. The former tennis player resorted to weight loss injections.
Tennis legend Serena Williams (43) makes no secret of it: she helped to lose weight. In one, the 23-fold Grand Slam winner confesses that she has lost over 14 kilograms with a prescription drug.
“I feel great. I feel really good and healthy. I feel physically freed,” explains Williams. With the help of a GLP-1 medication, she finally reached her desired weight. After two pregnancies, the exceptional athlete had desperately fought against the kilos in her view.
Hard workouts did nothing
“No matter how much I trained or how well I was eating – I just never reached the weight I wanted,” admits Williams. A completely new experience for the former professional athlete: “It was crazy because I have never been in such a situation where I worked so hard and ate so healthy and nevertheless never got where I had to be.”
The Olympic champion emphasizes that she never took abbreviations in her career. “I know what it takes to be the best,” she says. It was all the more frustrating not to achieve the desired result despite intensive training and not to lose weight properly after pregnancies.
Finally, Serena Williams decided about six months after the birth of her second daughter to treat weekly injections. These drugs – known brands are Ozempic and Mounjaro – act in the brain and influence the feeling of satiety. However, this is not a substitute for a healthy lifestyle, but would only have reinforced her efforts with healthy food and sport, as it clarifies.
“I can just do more”
She has now lost 14 kilos. For Williams, however, the focus is not on the outside, she emphasizes: “I can just do more. I am more active. My joint pain is not so much”. She feels like she has “a lot of energy and that’s great.” However, she does not want her to be influenced by her weight – she had also felt comfortable in her body beforehand, only physical complaints from the extra weight had disturbed.
The former world ranking wants to continue treatment and is already training for a half marathon. She regularly takes her fans during sports.
Serena Williams is one of the most successful tennis players of all time. In 2017 she gave birth to her first daughter, had returned to the pitch and only ended her career after the US Open 2022. In August 2023, her second daughter was born. The father of the children is Alexis Ohanian (42), whom Williams married in November 2017.
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