When it comes to managing her health, Serena Williams knows the ball is in her court.
So when the tennis star—celebrating her 44th birthday Sept. 26—wanted to lose weight after welcoming daughters Olympia, 8, and Adira, 2, with husband Alexis Ohanian, she formed a game plan.
Despite running, walking, playing a professional sport and changing her diet, “I could never go back to where I needed to be for my health,” Serena explained to Today.com last month. “Then, after my second kid, it just even got harder. So then I was like, OK, I have to try something different.”
For her, that included taking a GLP-1 medication. Although, the athlete was initially hesitant.
“When GLP-1s came out, I was like, ‘No way, no how. That’s not for me. Don’t sign me up,'” she continued. “But then I looked at it as a sport, like as an opponent: OK, I can’t beat this opponent no matter what I do.”
