Serena Williams reveals she's taking weight loss medication: 'I don't take shortcuts'

Tennis champion Serena Williams said Thursday that she is taking weight loss medication after struggling to see results from diet and exercise following the birth of her two daughters, Olympia and Adira.“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.

Tennis champion Serena Williams said Thursday that she is taking weight loss medication after struggling to see results from diet and exercise following the birth of her two daughters, Olympia and Adira.

“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 "TODAY."

After Olympia was born in 2017, she said, she would run and walk for hours to try to lose weight.

“I literally was playing a professional sport, and I could never go back to where I needed to be for my health, for my healthy weight, no matter what I did,” she said. “I would always lose a lot of weight, and then I would stay. No matter what I did, I couldn’t go lower than that one number.”