Serena Williams addresses dramatic physique transformation utilizing weight reduction jabs

Serena Williams has shared her dramatic physique transformation, partly, due to a weight reduction drug.

The seven-time Wimbledon champion, 43, stated she struggled to reduce weight after having two daughters together with her husband and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in 2017 and 2023.

After her second daughter was born in August 2023, she initially misplaced a little bit of weight within the first couple of weeks, however then ‘by no means misplaced one other pound’.

Williams, who retired from skilled tennis in 2022, stated she ‘by no means was capable of get to the load I wanted to be it doesn’t matter what I did, regardless of how a lot I skilled’.

“I simply thought, gosh, I do not know if I’d ever be capable of get again to the place I wanted to get to,” the 23-time Grand Slam champ defined to Folks.

“It was loopy as a result of I would by no means been in a spot like that in my life the place I labored so exhausting, ate so wholesome and will by no means get all the way down to the place I wanted to be at.

“I had by no means taken shortcuts in my profession and at all times labored actually exhausting. I do know what it takes to be the very best.

“So it was very irritating to do all the identical issues and by no means be capable of change that quantity on the size or the best way my physique appeared.”

Alongside ‘maintaining a healthy diet and understanding’, the previous athlete stated she has been utilizing a GLP-1 medicine to assist her lose over 31 lbs (2.2 St).

GLP-1 injections assist decrease blood sugar by boosting insulin and slowing down digestion to make you are feeling fuller. It is supposed to scale back urge for food and aide weight reduction in consequence.

Nonetheless, it is primarily used for sort 2 diabetes and weight problems underneath medical supervision.

“I really feel actually good and wholesome. I really feel gentle bodily and lightweight mentally,” she added.

“I simply can do extra. I am extra lively. My joints do not harm as a lot.

“I simply really feel like one thing so simple as simply getting down is quite a bit simpler for me.

“And I do it quite a bit quicker. I really feel like I’ve lots of vitality and it is nice. I simply really feel fairly good about it.”

Regardless of the medicine serving to Williams ‘improve all the things that I used to be already doing’, she warns that ‘weight reduction ought to by no means actually change your self picture’.

“Girls typically expertise judgment about their our bodies at any dimension, and I am no stranger to that. So I really feel like it’s best to love your self at any dimension and any look,” she added.