Serena Williams has admitted she is using weight-loss drugs after struggling to shift her post-pregnancy weight.

The 23-time Grand Slam tennis great said she has lost 31 pounds and wanted to speak out in an attempt to shake the stigma around their use.

“As an athlete and as someone that has done everything, I just couldn’t get my weight to where I needed to be at a healthy place, and believe me, I don’t take shortcuts. I do everything but shortcuts,” Williams said in an interview on NBC’s Today.

Williams explained that, after giving birth to daughters, Olympia in 2017 and Adira in 2023, no amount of training and strict eating was enough to reach a weight she felt was healthy.

“I literally was playing a professional sport, and I could never go back to where I needed to be for my health,

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