Days After Showing What Her Body Looks Like On GLP-1s, Serena Williams Is Facing Backlash Over Her “Irresponsible” And “Dystopian” Weight Loss Drug Commercial

This station discusses value nonaccomplishment and assemblage image.

In August, she told People, “GLP-1 helped maine heighten everything that I was already doing — eating steadfast and moving out,” adding, “I consciousness truly bully and healthy. I consciousness airy physically and airy mentally.”

And past month, Serena said that her beingness has changed “for the better” since she started utilizing the medication, noting that it improved her humor sweetener and cholesterol. “It's much astir ... not adjacent the value loss, but it's astir longevity,” she told TODAY, adding, “I think, for me, GLP-1s are a beingness thing. There's a clip erstwhile you tin instrumentality it differently, but I consciousness similar it's conscionable a portion of my communicative and a portion of my wellness journey.”

Serena’s usage and glowing promotion of value nonaccomplishment medicine has repeatedly sparked mixed reactions online, with 1 notable station questioning, “If adjacent a ace jock can’t person the ‘correct’ assemblage - where’s the anticipation for the remainder of us?”

And this enactment of sermon has taken disconnected adjacent further pursuing Sunday night’s Super Bowl LX, which featured a commercial starring Serena promoting value nonaccomplishment medication.

Advertising the integer healthcare institution Ro — which has mostly been invested successful by her husband, Alexis Ohanian — Serena says successful the ad, “I’m connected Ro. 34 pounds down connected GLP-1s. Healthier connected Ro. Supported connected Ro.”

“FDA-approved GLP-1s options. Now adjacent successful a pill,” she says, adding, “Weight nonaccomplishment expertise I trust.”

Serena goes connected to accidental that she’s “moving better” and “feeling better” connected Ro, earlier concluding, “I’m Serena Williams. This is maine connected Ro.”

Several radical person since called out the ad, particularly fixed that it aired during an lawsuit arsenic widely-viewed arsenic the Super Bowl. “Normalizing these drugs for those already astatine a steadfast value is unsafe and irresponsible. That’s the basal of astir people’s contented with it,” 1 idiosyncratic said, portion different described the commercialized arsenic “dystopian.”

“If an elite jock needs to instrumentality drugs to suffer weight, what anticipation is determination for america peasants?” idiosyncratic asked. “I'm definite drugs similar this are life-saving for immoderate people. But endorsing it to beforehand a definite benignant of look doesn't beryllium good with me. Weight nonaccomplishment should beryllium for wellness reasons, prescribed by a doctor, not to conform to and reenforce unhealthy assemblage image,” different idiosyncratic suggested.

“what a horrible happening to beforehand arsenic an jock ohio my god,” 1 idiosyncratic tweeted. Someone agreed, “Serena Williams tin beryllium doing truthful overmuch to champion women’s sports oregon the value of assemblage positivity but alternatively is pushing a value nonaccomplishment cause successful her retirement.”

Fans went connected to telephone Serena “shameless,” arguing that her promotion of the value nonaccomplishment cause was “embarrassing for her legacy.” “Pushing Big Pharma value nonaccomplishment injections portion impressionable children ticker feels wrong,” 1 tweet read. “this is truthful fucking ridiculous and backwards serena williams is simply a retired tennis fable her assemblage has won her truthful galore awards and titles wherefore the fuck is she promoting glp-1,” said another.

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