{"id":2327271,"date":"2026-03-13T23:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2327271"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:08:18","slug":"serena-williams-models-swimsuit-with-slippers-after-weight-loss-medication-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/serena-williams-models-swimsuit-with-slippers-after-weight-loss-medication-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams models swimsuit with slippers after weight loss medication backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Serena Williams once again modeled a swimsuit following backlash over her use of weight loss medication, Ro. <\/p>\n<p>The tennis champion was pictured via Instagram wearing an olive green one-piece swimsuit while posing outdoors. <\/p>\n<p>She layered the summer look with a fuzzy pink robe and a pair of Ugg slippers while casually posing in three snapshots, opting for a soft glam with pink lips. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not perfect\u2026.but I\u2019m perfectly me,\u201d she captioned the upload on Friday. \u201cTake out time today to celebrate being perfectly you! \ud83d\udc8b\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Serena Williams modeled a green one-piece swimsuit via Instagram on Friday.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@serenawilliams<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The tennis champ layered the look with a short pink robe and donned Ugg slippers.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@serenawilliams<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Fans took to the comments thread with supportive comments. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow! You are an amazing woman Serena \ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d\u2764\ufe0f\u201d one person gushed, while another wrote, \u201cGreat post Serena, hope your [sic] feeling good\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third raved, \u201cWe love you Serena! Champion! Legacy! Bold! Trendsetter! Mother! \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\u201d while a fourth remarked, \u201cWell said! Be You \u2764\ufe0f\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Still others were unsure of the athlete\u2019s slimmed down look. \u201cNoooooo I miss the old Serena\u2026..\u201d one person confessed. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI am not perfect\u2026.but I\u2019m perfectly me,\u201d she captioned the carousel in part.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@serenawilliams<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Williams previously claimed she \u201cneeded\u201d GLP-1 medications to lose weight following the births of her two daughters. She seen here with Ohanian in a previous social media post.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@serenawilliams<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Williams, 44, previously <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/21\/style\/serena-williams-shows-off-body-transformation-in-swimsuit-after-using-weight-loss-medication\/\">showed off her weight transformation<\/a> in a yellow cutout swimsuit back in August. <\/p>\n<p>That same month, she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/23\/celebrity-news\/fans-slam-serena-williams-for-pushing-dangerous-agenda-with-weight-loss-medication-admission\/\">faced fan backlash<\/a> after a joint video with GLP-1 medicine company Ro showed her seemingly injecting herself with the weekly medication \u2014 which she claimed she \u201cneeded\u201d after welcoming two daughters with husband Alexis Ohanian in 2019 and 2023. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an athlete and an influencer, it\u2019s a shame that you\u2019re reiterating the narrative that you need to take medication to be healthy and achieve an acceptable standard of beauty. This video made me really sad and disappointed,\u201d one Instagram user wrote at the time. <\/p>\n<p>The four-time Olympic gold medalist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/21\/celebrity-news\/serena-williams-confesses-to-using-weight-loss-medication-after-dramatic-body-transformation\/\">confessed to achieving a 30-pound weight loss<\/a> on the medication in an interview with People.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel really good and healthy,\u201d she told the outlet last summer. \u201cI feel light physically and light mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Since the 2019 and 2023 births of her daughters Alexis and Adira, (seen above with Serena and their father,) she\u2019s lost 30 pounds.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@serenawilliams<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Williams previously showed off her weight transformation in a yellow swimsuit in August 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Serena Williams\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI did a lot of research on it,\u201d she shared of the decision, noting that she\u2019d struggled to \u201cget back to where I needed to get to,\u201d despite diet and exercise efforts . <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Is this a shortcut? What are the benefits? What are not the benefits?\u2019 I really wanted to dive into it before I just did it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Now, she said, she\u2019s feeling her best again. \u201cI just can do more. I\u2019m more active,\u201d she told the outlet.  \u201cMy joints don\u2019t 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She also cited an increase in energy and said she feels \u201cpretty good about it.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams once again modeled a swimsuit following backlash over her use of weight loss medication, Ro. The tennis champion was pictured via Instagram wearing an olive green one-piece swimsuit while posing outdoors. She layered the summer look with a fuzzy pink robe and a pair of Ugg slippers while casually posing in three snapshots, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2327272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,21787,315102,354384,21848,346606,350732],"class_list":["post-2327271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-celebrity-weight-loss","tag-serena-williams","tag-sports","tag-swimwear","tag-womens-fashion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Serena-Williams-models-swimsuit-with-slippers-after-weight-loss-medication.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327273,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327271\/revisions\/2327273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}