In his 2024 memoir, Boy George reveals he had a tummy tuck, tried Ozempic and is at current using Mounjaro. “I’ve struggled with my weight most of my life and being beneath public and media scrutiny doesn’t help,” he wrote. “I like meals and I can’t administration my urge for meals, nevertheless I consider I’ve lastly acquired it beneath administration. Properly, I’m on Mounjaro. Isn’t everyone? Perception me anyone who was fat remaining yr and is now skinny is on the marvel drug.”
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Oprah Winfrey confirmed that together with widespread prepare and life-style changes, she moreover added weight-loss therapy into her routine after she “launched my very personal shame about it.” Though she wouldn’t determine which product she makes use of, she talked about she makes use of it “as I actually really feel I would love it, as a tool to deal with not yo-yoing.” She added, “The reality that there’s a medically accepted prescription for managing weight and staying extra wholesome, in my lifetime, seems like discount, like redemption, like a gift, and by no means one factor to cowl behind and as quickly as as soon as extra be ridiculed for. I’m utterly accomplished with the shaming from totally different of us and considerably myself.”
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Jennifer Fessler claims her weight discount drug use landed her inside the hospital. On an episode of Two Jersey Js, the RHONJ star talked about, “I’ve been on, and I’m not going to call it Ozempic — that’s been the umbrella determine. Nevertheless I’ve been on semaglutide for over a yr now, and I’ve misplaced presumably 22 kilos.” She continued, “I’m not afraid of Ozempic and I’ll inform you I’ve had an experience that was not good — and I’m pretty optimistic it was regarding the semaglutide — the place I wanted to go to the hospital for an impacted bowel … and I’m nonetheless not nervous about it.” She talked about she wasn’t sustaining a nutritious diet and have turn into constipated, together with she was “responsible” for her medical problem.
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Maria Bello reveals she tried Ozempic, taking to Instagram to place in writing: “I went by the use of the first half of menopause all through Covid and tried all of the items to take care of it at bay. I took bio-identical hormones (and nonetheless do), dieted harder and sooner nevertheless nonetheless managed to realize 15 kilos, tried Ozempic for each week nevertheless gave up after the fastened nausea and vomiting, eliminated the waddle on my neck, tried Botox, fillers and lasers, face lotions, cellulite machines, face threads, enamel straightening and additional. I did copious portions of treatment, along with micro-dosing psilocybin, left Hollywood and all social media and on the end of all of it lastly moved to Paris.” She talked about she hoped to share her journey to encourage totally different women to “embrace” menopause, instead of attempting to “avoid” it.”
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Rep. George Santos confirmed he makes use of Ozempic for weight discount in an look on Meghan McCain’s podcast Megan McCain Has Entered the Chat. “In January 2022, I weighed myself in at 350 kilos and I discussed, ‘No. This has to range,’” he outlined. “In December 2022, I weighed myself in sooner than the New 12 months rang in and I was 251 kilos, so that’s 99 kilos in a yr.” Santos moreover revealed he was pre-diabetic, explaining: “It utterly helped. I consider the FDA ought to truly ponder wanting into it and seeing it as an risk for weight discount. Weight issues is the first motive behind lack of life on this nation.” Saying he’ll most likely be on it with out finish, he added, “It’s unbelievable … I like it.”
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Sharon Osbourne opened up about her 30-pound weight discount ensuing from Ozempic all through an look on Focus on TV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored, admitting she’s now “too skinny.” “It’s merely time to stop, I didn’t actually want to go this skinny, nevertheless it certainly merely occurred,” she talked about, together with that she’s “most definitely put all of it on as soon as extra rapidly.” The earlier Focus on cohost — who misplaced the quite a few amount of weight over a span of 4 months — beforehand acquired candid regarding the unpleasant negative effects, telling Bill Maher, “The first few weeks was f–king s–t because you merely throw up frequently. You’re feeling so nauseous. After a number of weeks, it goes, and also you then’re merely high-quality, you’re feeling nothing. Merely not hungry.”
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Tracy Morgan says he’s on Ozempic and he “ain’t letting it go.” The actor appeared on the TODAY current on Monday and talked about the prescription was accountable for his transformation. “It cuts my urge for meals in half,” he outlined. “Now I solely eat half a bag of Doritos.” Then miming plunging a syringe into his stomach he talked about, “I take Ozempic every Thursday.” Although the prescription drug was not completely accountable for his current physique, as he well-known, “I arise at 7 every morning, and I’m inside the health heart at 10. Then I’m going once more to sleep. And that’s my life.”
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RHONJ star Dolores Catania — who says she’s “insulin resistance/pre-diabetic” — confirmed she took Ozempic for two years, sooner than her doctor switched her to Mounjaro, one different anti-diabetic therapy, earlier this yr. “I’m down 20 kilos,” she instructed The Photo voltaic, “Correct now, I’m 137. I was 157 after I started.” She instructed the outlet that the burden loss “doesn’t happen in a single day” and “it doesn’t come off simple,” moreover crediting workouts alongside along with her transformation.
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Raven-Symone issued a warning to those who used the diabetes medication solely for weight discount, whereas saying she has pre-diabetes in her family and is “further vulnerable to getting diabetes” herself. Speaking with E!, she talked about, “I consider it’s important we understand certain medication are made for certain of us — and to not take that away just for glamazon capabilities. Do what you gotta do, merely you’ll want to save the therapy for the people who really need it.”
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RHOC star Emily Simpson revealed in an interview with Jeff Lewis that her doctor actually useful Ozempic to her once more in December 2022, after a blood panel confirmed she was pre-diabetic and had extreme ldl ldl cholesterol. She talked about it was “a terrific kickstart” for her because of it helped curb her of her “harmful” snacking habits — nevertheless added she solely misplaced 5-7 kilos whereas on it for less than a month and stopped taking it because of it made her actually really feel “lethargic.” She adopted that up with lipo on her arms and a breast low cost in January 2023, has since “modified my consuming routine absolutely” and now feels “the healthiest I’ve ever been.”
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Pregnant Vanderpump Pointers alum Stassi Schroeder appeared on Identify Her Daddy with Alex Cooper and talked about of Ozempic, “Oh my god, I really want to try it after I give starting, the amount of situations I’ve researched this being like, ‘I indicate, I consider it’s safe and healthful. Like, I consider it’s good for you. It’s like taking dietary nutritional vitamins.’”
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Amy Schumer revealed on Watch What Happens Dwell with Andy Cohen that she tried Ozempic, sooner than giving it up. “Like a yr prior to now, I tried it. I was a kind of those that felt so sick and couldn’t play with my son. I was so skinny and he’s throwing a ball at me and [I couldn’t],” she talked about. “And you’re like, ‘OK, this isn’t livable for me.’ Nevertheless I immediately invested because of I knew everyone was going to aim it.” She moreover urged people who do use weight discount drugs or have work accomplished to “Be precise with the oldsters.”
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“Shahs of Sunset” star Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi revealed she began using Semaglutide injections to help her drop a number of kilos. Throughout the first 4 weeks, she went from 137 kilos to 126 — nevertheless, in a followup put up (pictured), talked about she could possibly be chopping once more on the drug after dropping further weight than anticipated. “As soon as I started Semaglutide images, I was 138 kilos. Now, I’m about 110 kilos. As you might even see, I’ve misplaced a bit further weight than I was anticipating to lose.” She outlined, “I decided I’m solely going to weigh myself on the instances of my injections merely to doc it. And on April 30, I acquired on the size, and I observed 111 kilos. That’s after I knew, it’s time to scale back. That’s after I started chopping down on objects and going backwards and backwards until lastly now, I’m merely on maintenance.”
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Tracy Tutor used Mounjaro, a weight discount therapy similar to Ozempic, for about 8 weeks whereas filming Million Buck Itemizing: Los Angeles. On the Jeff Lewis Has Factors podcast, she claimed she was unable to drink alcohol on the therapy with out “projectile” vomiting. “I had taken the [Mounjaro] shot, like, presumably each week sooner than. One night time time we stayed in, and we had dinner, and I had most definitely three glasses of wine, presumably smoked a bit hooch after, went to mattress, woke up, was unwell — like, so unwell,” she talked about, sooner than detailing an incident all through filming with a consumer. “I’ve to’ve run like 200 toes, throwing up the entire technique. All the social gathering, like, stops. Everybody’s wanting like, ‘What’s flawed alongside along with her?’ It was a tragedy.” She added it wasn’t solely a hangover, feeling “it was legitimately from the shot.”
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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s daughter Gracie opened up about her experience with Ozempic after a troll talked about her bikini physique was because of antidiabetic and weight discount therapy. She responded, writing, “I did use ozempic remaining yr, certain. I’m now on a low dose of mounjaro for my PCOS along with understanding. No should accuse after I’ve been open about it.” The medication are recognized to ease the indicators of polycystic ovary syndrome.
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Charles Barkley confirmed he misplaced 62lbs in 6 months by the use of understanding and with the help of Mounjaro, a medicine similar to Ozempic. “I started at 352 and I’m proper right down to 290,” he talked about, together with that he takes the shot as quickly as each week and joking, “I’ve zero thought what it does, I’m not going to lie.”
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Gina Kirschenheiter weighed herself in an attempt to “silence the noise” suggesting she makes use of Ozempic. The reality star posted a TikTok, captioning the video: “I’m a dimension 6. If I wasn’t consuming I could be a 2. Go kick rocks.” She added: “I’m very healthful, quite common. Like all of us, I try to take my images at good angles [and] I completed consuming a yr and a half prior to now, I’m not on a weight discount drug and it isn’t my fault that you just simply want to attempt to make one factor that isn’t there, my pal.”
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Bethenny Frankel made it very clear she doesn’t condone utilizing Ozempic strictly for weight discount. The earlier “Precise Housewives of New York” made an Instagram video referring to the drug as “NOzempic” and warning her viewers by saying, “That’s going to be scary because of very skinny people who’ve physique dysmorphia and consuming issues are going to be taking this.” She added, “Mark my phrases, we’re not going to hearken to regarding the s–t current of this for months and years to come back again… it needs to be a f–king s–t current.”
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Jameela Jamil is among the many newest celebrities to speak out about Ozempic after noticing followers discussing why everyone was so “skinny” on the Oscars this yr. In a poignant assertion on her Instagram, Jameela revealed that “A LOT of people this yr took weight discount injections,” which she well-known “don’t protect the burden off utterly.” Jameela added that she wasn’t attempting to be “judgemental,” nevertheless reasonably wanted to take care of her followers from being “triggered” or making “any sudden choices, as a result of images of unimaginable necessities that come out at current.” “It’s a short-term extreme,” Jameela wrote. “None of this lasts. Very not typically is it unrestrictive and healthful. Don’t shame your self since you don’t appear as if these women tonight.”
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Chelsea Handler admits that she was as quickly as on Ozempic nevertheless she didn’t even understand it. She outlined that her anti-aging doctor gave her the therapy if she ever wanted “to drop 5 kilos” nevertheless didn’t make clear what it was. She decided to aim it out nevertheless solely realized it was Ozempic when she began having indicators. Chelsea says she’s no longer on the therapy. “I’m not on it anymore. That’s too irresponsible. I’m an irresponsible drug individual, nevertheless I’m not gonna take a diabetic drug. I tried it, and I’m not gonna do that. That’s not for me. That’s not correct for me,” she talked about on the “Identify Her Daddy” podcast. “I’ve injected about 4 or 5 of my associates with Ozempic because of I observed I didn’t wanna use it ‘set off it’s silly. It’s for heavy of us. Everybody appears to be on Ozempic. It’s gonna backfire, one factor harmful is gonna happen.”
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Over the course of the earlier yr, followers have noticed that Julia Fox has misplaced a giant amount of weight. On account of her altering look, some accused her of using Ozempic — nevertheless she says that’s one factor she’d not at all do. “All these people are coming for me saying that I take the burden loss points…People are saying that I’m taking Ozempic or regardless of it is named. I’m not and I’ve not at all have…I would not at all do that. There are diabetics that need it,” she instructed Leisure Tonight.
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“Precise Housewife” Kyle Richards has moreover been referred to as out for using Ozempic to drop a number of kilos nevertheless she’s denied ever touching the therapy. She outlined that she’d not at all even heard of it until currently and is “offended” and “offended” that anyone believes she would use these methods to drop kilos. In its place, she says her weight discount is all pure and she or he locations in a great deal of work inside the health heart. “I didn’t even study Ozempic until I would already misplaced the burden I wanted to lose,” Kyle instructed People. “I started dropping a number of kilos eight months prior to now, actually, because of I completed consuming alcohol eight months prior to now. At first I was like, ‘Why are they saying I’m taking this consuming routine drug?’ Then they thought, ‘Properly, presumably it’s one different type,’ because of I was saying, ‘It isn’t Ozempic.’ It wasn’t any consuming routine drug ever, not at all touched it. So it really merely pissed off me because of I’m understanding really onerous.”
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After Rosie O’Donnell currently dropped some weight, she outlined that it did should do with therapy — nevertheless she was taking it for her sort 2 diabetes. In a TikTok, she revealed that she had misplaced 10 kilos in decrease than a month due to a mixture of the therapy and a model new healthful life-style. “Two months prior to now, my doctor put me on, not Ozempic, Mounjaro, one factor like that…and [cholesterol medication] Repatha,” she outlined. “One I do every totally different week, the other I do as quickly as each week…I moreover really stopped consuming 5 or 6 Meals routine Cokes a day…And my urge for meals has decreased significantly — it’s most definitely the meds. And I’m attempting to maneuver further. So all these points blended, that’s what it’s.”
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After followers noticed Khloé Kardashian’s terribly slim decide, rumors began to ground that she was Ozempic. Khloé lastly fought once more in opposition to the claims, clapping once more inside the comment a part of her Instagram. “Let’s not discredit my years of understanding. I arise 5 days each week at 6am to educate. Please stop alongside together with your assumptions,” she wrote. “I assume new yr nonetheless means indicate of us.”
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“Vanderpump Pointers” star Katie Maloney says she just isn’t in opposition to the considered using Ozempic. Whereas discussing the event of celebrities using the drug, she shared that she feels everyone should do what they want with their very personal our our bodies. “I say everyone do what you want to do. Understand the hazards, and if it’s best for you, it’s best for you,” she instructed People. “I consider the expectations [for women to be thin] are always going be there whether or not or not or not there’s like this miracle drug or not. The pressures are always going to be there. So thanks, Hollywood, thanks media, thanks society for safeguarding it going. Nevertheless I merely suppose, , if it makes you cheerful, observe your bliss.”
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Lala Kent admits she feels in any other case about Ozempic than her “Vanderpump Pointers” co-star. The reality star says that she’s had “adequate already” with of us taking it for weight discount and believes it’s time for them to stop. “I consider that Hollywood is all sorts of f–ked up. Now we have obtained to do larger,” she instructed People. “I consider there’s a great deal of points that need to range and it begins with us and there are events the place I roll my eyes and say, ‘F–king do larger, all of us.’ All of us have to participate in becoming larger examples for our children inside the outdoor world.”
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“Million Buck Matchmaker” Patti Stanger says that people she is conscious of all through the nation are all using Ozempic. She later revealed that she’s moreover using a weight discount injection. “I’m on the shot. I’m gonna inform you the fact. I went on semaglutide, which is the ingredient in Ozempic. I acquired the worst acid reflux disease illness. And I was not feeling good. So, I completed three weeks in,” she talked about on the “Behind the Velvet Rope” podcast, together with that she now takes Tirzepatide and experiences a lot much less indicators.
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Shortly after Meghan McCain gave starting to her second child, she says associates “urged” her to take Ozempic to help drop the toddler weight. She explains that she found the whole factor “horrifying, unfair and disturbing” and would not at all want to take one factor that totally different of us needed to be healthful. “I was even equipped a black market freebie by any person with ‘extra images at dwelling.’ …Let me make one issue very clear. I’m not taking it. I refuse. There’s a clear moral problem proper right here. It’s onerous to take a drug because of swimsuit season is throughout the nook, whereas others need it to stay alive. And the best way can this be healthful?” Meghan wrote in a column for the Daily Mail.
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Film star coach Jillian Michaels says there are a great deal of negatives to taking Ozempic and she or he’s currently needed to help quite a few associates get off the drug. She outlined that after any person stops taking it, the burden will come once more, so it isn’t even worth it. “I’ve taken not lower than eight family associates’ dad and mother off of this drug. They [were] getting coronary coronary heart palpitations, they’re nauseous, they actually really feel like s–t,” she instructed People. ‘As quickly as they get off of the drug, it does the rebound affect. So you aren’t gaining one thing. You get off the drug in a yr and go all one of the best ways once more. You’ve obtained not realized one thing. You’ve obtained not constructed any bodily energy or endurance. You haven’t realized the appropriate approach to eat healthful. The fact of the matter is, Ozempic has some pretty vital negative effects. Do your homework on it. The outcomes aren’t lasting, in very big half.”
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