Three years after announcing her retirement from tennis , Serena Williams has a new job: advertising weight-loss medication. In an interview with Vogue , she revealed she started taking Zepbound to lose weight after her daughter Adira was born in 2023. Taking GLP-1 medication changed her life, she says — so she partnered with Ro , a telehealth company connecting patients with providers who prescribe weight-loss drugs as well as medications to treat erectile dysfunction, genital herpes, and hair loss.
“After I had my kids, I hit a wall I had never encountered before. I was doing everything right. Working out. Eating clean. Following the plan. But my body wasn’t responding the way it used to,” Williams says in a Ro promo video . “ For me, the answer was GLP-1s. The answer was