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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Alex Light

Voices: Serena Williams’s GLP-1 partnership marks a disturbing cultural turning point

It is a brutal reminder that even the most accomplished women remain trapped by society’s obsession with thinness - (Getty for International Tennis Hall of Fame)

Weight-loss drugs have their first global ambassador: Serena Williams. The tennis great has signed on as the face of Ro, a telehealth company prescribing GLP-1 weight loss drugs, and where her husband, Alexis Ohanian, is a board member.

Announcing the partnership, she told Women’s Health: “I am a very good use case of how you can do everything – eat healthy, work out to the point of even playing a professional sport and getting to the finals of Wimbledon and US Opens – and still not be able to lose weight.”

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