In terms of managing her well being, Serena Williams is aware of the ball is in her courtroom.
So when the tennis star—celebrating her forty fourth birthday Sept. 26—wished to drop extra pounds after welcoming daughters Olympia, 8, and Adira, 2, with husband Alexis Ohanian, she shaped a sport plan.
Regardless of working, strolling, enjoying knowledgeable sport and altering her weight-reduction plan, “I might by no means return to the place I wanted to be for my well being,” Serena defined to In the present day.com final month. “Then, after my second child, it simply even received more durable. So then I used to be like, OK, I’ve to strive one thing totally different.”
For her, that included taking a GLP-1 medicine. Though, the athlete was initially hesitant.
“When GLP-1s got here out, I used to be like, ‘No means, no how. That’s not for me. Don’t signal me up,'” she continued. “However then I checked out it as a sport, like as an opponent: OK, I can’t beat this opponent it doesn’t matter what I do.”
