Serena Williams is embracing her swimsuit body amid her GLP-1 weight loss journey.
“I am not perfect…but I’m perfectly me,” Williams, 44, wrote via Instagram on Friday, March 13, alongside a photo of the tennis great wearing a dark green one-piece swimsuit. “Take out time today to celebrate being perfectly you.”
In addition to her dark green suit, Williams rocked what appeared to be a pink robe hanging off her arms and very comfortable looking slippers while poolside. She wore her locks down in curls and seemingly minimal makeup.
In August 2025, the athlete confirmed she lost 31 pounds with the help of GLP-1 medication. (The medications, like Wegovy and Ozempic, are used to help people with diabetes, though they are now also being used to assist people in losing weight.)
“I feel great,” Williams told People at the time. “I feel really good and healthy. I feel light physically and light mentally.”
The retired tennis player decided to use the controversial weight loss medication after she says she was “never” able to reach the weight she “needed” to reach after giving birth to her daughter Olympia in 2017.
“It was crazy because I’d never been in a place like that in my life where I worked so hard, ate so healthy and could never get down to where I needed to be at,” she recalled to the outlet. “I had never taken shortcuts in my career and always worked really hard. I know what it takes to be the best.”
Williams shares daughter Olympia with her husband, Alexis Ohanian. The couple later welcomed their second daughter, Adira, in August 2023. Shortly after giving birth for a second time, Williams said she again had difficulty losing weight after two weeks.
“I never lost another pound,” she told People at the time. “I just thought, gosh, I don’t know if I would ever be able to get back to where I needed to get to.”
That’s when Williams says she turned to Ro — she is now a spokesperson for the company — and began taking injections of a GLP-1 weight loss drug in 2024 after she stopped breastfeeding her younger daughter.
“I really wanted to dive into it before I just did it,” she said, though she clarified that she never “felt pressure” to maintain a certain weight, size or body image.
“I’m more active,” she added. “My joints don’t hurt as much. I just feel like something as simple as just getting down is a lot easier for me. And I do it a lot faster. I feel like I have a lot of energy and it’s great. I Just feel pretty good about it.”
