Fans Are Calling Out Serena Williams’ Pole-Dancing Video After Controversial Super Bowl Ad
Tennis legend Serena Williams is focusing on her health amid the controversy and is trying to get “back at it.”
For months now, Williams has been one of the leading ladies in the GLP-1 provider Ro’s commercials, including a starring role in the 2026 Super Bowl spot. Days after the incident, she uploaded a unique workout routine, and it has fans split.
In case you missed it, in an Instagram story from earlier this week, obtained by DailyMail, we can see Serena in her home gym going “back at it” on the pole dancing exercises, captioning the video by saying, “I’m back to training on my 2 favorite devices.”
While many fans love that she’s showing her love for pole dancing, especially after fans never knew this about her before, many can’t get over the recent love for weight-loss medications she’s been promoting. And they haven’t forgotten her ad.
One X user wrote, “this is so ******* ridiculous and backwards serena williams is a retired tennis legend her body has won her so many awards and titles why the **** is she promoting glp-1.”
Another wrote, “My bigger problem is they have a woman who is fit and a phenomenal athlete doing this. It’s NOT a weight loss drug, its a diabetes maintenance drug that CAN HELP with losing weight.”
(And many noted that her husband Alexis Ohanian is on the board of directors for Ro.)
She first told People in Aug 2025 that she used a GLP-1 medication to help loss pregnancy pounds, saying, “I never was able to get to the weight I needed to be no matter what I did, no matter how much I trained. “It was crazy because I’d never been in a place like that in my life where I worked so hard, ate so healthy and could never get down to where I needed to be at.”
She added, “I had never taken shortcuts in my career and always worked really hard. I know what it takes to be the best. So it was very frustrating to do all the same things and never be able to change that number on the scale or the way my body looked.”
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