{"id":162487,"date":"2025-09-26T23:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162487\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:06:11","slug":"serena-williams-questions-new-york-hotel-over-cotton-plant-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162487\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams questions New York hotel over cotton plant decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Williams, 43, did not explain her reason for objecting to the plant, though the Daily Mail noted the historical connections of cotton with the US slave trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">She was in New York for the launch of her friend Kim Kardashian\u2019s NikesSKIMS slimwear brand, as commentary continues about Williams\u2019 recent weight loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">She has lost about 14kg in eight months, helped by the injectable drug Zepbound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">She has partnered with health company Ro to promote the weight-loss medication, which, unlike the diabetic drug Ozempic, is intended specifically for slimming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Williams told Vogue the commentary around GLP-1 agonist drugs felt unfair. GLP-1s are a class of medications that treat Type 2 diabetes and help with weight management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI feel like a lot of people have this stigma on GLP-1s and say things like \u2018Oh, lazy people do it,\u2019 or \u2018If you\u2019re working hard enough, you don\u2019t need that\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">But that wasn\u2019t the case for her: \u201cSometimes you need help. Your story is your story, and it\u2019s okay to make that choice to do it if you want to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams, 43, did not explain her reason for objecting to the plant, though the Daily Mail noted the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2368,73822,32215,73823,73824,978,1779,746,29621,73821,60733,101,118,56,54,55,2922,34403],"class_list":["post-162487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-cotton","tag-criticised","tag-decoration","tag-displaying","tag-hallway","tag-hotel","tag-new","tag-over","tag-plant","tag-questions","tag-serena","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-williams","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}