Serena Williams flaunted her physique transformation in a swimsuit after she confessed to utilizing a weight-loss treatment.
The athlete, 43, sported a vibrant yellow one-piece as she posed for a sequence of snaps Thursday.
“melanin mellow-yellow ⚠️,” she captioned the Instagram carousel and followers have been fast to hype her up within the feedback.
“You look wonderful🔥,” one fan wrote. “What a Physique 🔥❤️,” one other added.
Williams revealed she misplaced greater than 30 kilos with the assistance of a GLP-1 prescription.
“I really feel nice,” she advised Individuals Thursday. “I really feel actually good and wholesome. I really feel mild bodily and light-weight mentally.”
The previous skilled tennis participant shared that she started struggling together with her weight after she gave delivery to her daughter, Alexis Olympia, in September 2017.
“I by no means was in a position to get to the burden I wanted to be it doesn’t matter what I did, irrespective of how a lot I educated,” she defined. “It was loopy as a result of I’d by no means been in a spot like that in my life the place I labored so arduous, 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 all the time labored actually arduous. I do know what it takes to be one of the best,” Williams continued. “So it was very irritating to do all the identical issues and by no means have the ability to change that quantity on the dimensions or the best way my physique appeared.”
The 23-time Grand Slam champion stated that she confronted the identical weight downside after giving delivery to her second daughter, Adira River, in August 2023. Williams recalled that she was in a position to shed a ton of the being pregnant weight in simply two weeks, however then “by no means misplaced one other pound.”
“I simply thought, ‘Gosh, I don’t know if I’d ever have the ability to get again to the place I wanted to get to.’”
Regardless of the identified controversy and her personal skepticism round weight-loss medication, Williams determined to analysis totally different GLP-1 drugs in an effort to obtain the wholesome way of life she wished.
“I did quite a lot of analysis on it. I used to be like, ‘Is that this a shortcut? What are the advantages? What aren’t the advantages?’ I actually wished to dive into it earlier than I simply did it,” she stated
As soon as she determined it was the appropriate selection for her, Williams started the weekly injections of the weight-loss treatment Ro about six months after Adira was born, when she stopped breastfeeding in early 2024.
“I misplaced over 31 kilos utilizing my GLP-1 and I used to be actually enthusiastic about that weight-loss.”
The mother of two additionally revealed to the outlet that she is feeling higher than ever due to Ro.
“I simply can do extra. I’m extra lively. My joints don’t harm as a lot. I simply really feel like one thing so simple as simply getting down is loads simpler for me. And I do it loads quicker,” she defined. “I really feel like I’ve quite a lot of power and it’s nice. I simply really feel fairly good about it.”
The Olympian made certain to notice, nonetheless, that she’s “by no means felt that stress to take care of a sure look” and that she is utilizing the weight-loss drug to attain a more healthy way of life, not simply to look skinnier.
“I all the time felt comfy at any measurement, whether or not I used to be loads heavier or not. I do really feel like my physique didn’t like me at that weight. I had ache in my joints and ache in several areas simply due to the additional weight that I’m not used to carrying since I had kids.”
Figuring out the stress ladies face to look a sure means, Williams has conversations about physique picture and physique positivity together with her younger daughters, who she shares with husband Alexis Ohanian.
“With me going by means of what I’ve went by means of rising up in public and simply having hundreds of thousands of individuals commenting on my physique, it’s actually necessary to show them to be assured at any measurement, similar to I attempt to be.”
