Serena Williams is Opening Up about using GLP-1 medication for weight loss

Serena Williams has never shied away from rewriting the rules, and now she’s doing it again this time in the realm of body image and weight loss. Opening up about her use of GLP-1 medication after the birth of her daughter Olympia, Serena isn’t just sharing a personal choice; she’s dismantling one of society’s most stubborn taboos: women, weight, and shame.

For too long, women have been policed about their bodies judged for gaining weight, judged for losing it, judged for how they go about either. Serena’s candour cuts through that noise. By admitting that she struggled with her body post-pregnancy and sought medical support, she’s challenging the narrative that women should “bounce back” silently, or that seeking help somehow diminishes their strength.

What Serena makes clear is that taking control of your health whether through medication, fitness, or any other means is not something to be hidden in whispers. It is a bold assertion of agency. And when it comes from a woman who has built her career on strength, resilience, and self-definition, it carries weight far beyond the personal.

Serena’s message? Don’t be ashamed. Don’t shrink yourself literally or metaphorically for anyone else’s comfort. Choose the tools that let you live powerfully in your own skin.