Celebrities Quit Ozempic
Sharon Osbourne, wife of singer Ozzy Osbourne, told media outlets that she took Ozempic and lost 42 pounds, but the 72-year-old said she can’t regain any of the weight she lost and has been left "frustrated" at its side effects: “The drug has taken a toll on her body and she's doing all she can to try and arrest the decline to and get some weight back on but at the moment it is not working,” reported GeoNews.
Real Housewives star Heather Gay to ABC News that she's stopping Ozempic after evaluating the effects it had on her self-confidence, explaining she's aiming for body neutrality.
Another Real Housewife, Jessel Taank, told US Weekly in October 2024 that “when you’re in reality TV, it’s so natural to be like, ‘Oh, she got plastic surgery or she did this or she’s on Ozempic…I actually f--king hate Ozempic. I would never put needles in myself.”
Lottie Moss, little sister of supermodel Kate Moss, revealed on her podcast that Ozempic was “the worst decision I ever made”. She wound up in the emergency room. “I literally had a seizure from how dehydrated I was, which honestly was the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life,” she said.
Tik-tok model Remi Blader was prescribed Ozempic when she became pre-diabetic. She told the Daily Mail that she lost some weight on the medication but that she regained twice what she had lost once she came off it. “My bingeing got so much worse, so then I kind of blame Ozempic. I gained double the weight back after.”
Models and Celebs Beware
For those beautiful people who get by on their looks, take note: The journal Facial Plastic Surgery warns that rapid weight and fat loss with Ozempic can lead to the characteristic "Ozempic face," where facial volume and fat are depleted, resulting in wrinkles and sagging skin.
GLP-1 Lawsuits
The number of lawsuits filed is also increasing. Time Magazine in November 2024 reported that thousands of people have filed, or are expected to file, lawsuits against Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, the GLP-1 drug makers, claiming they were not adequately informed about the risks of using these medications, according to court documents associated with those claims. The Daily Mail has gone so far as to report up to 10,000 lawsuits have been filed due to severe side effects.
According to The Daily Mail, researchers analyzed over 3,000 US pharmacy claims from patients prescribed injections like Ozempic and Wegovy, and only one in four patients stayed on the weight loss drugs for at least two years. Just one in 15 patients stayed on less popular medications such as Saxenda and Victoza.
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Another Ozempic user told Time Magazine that her weight dropped by more than 100 pounds over roughly one year on Ozempic. Soon after her doctors said she should stop taking the medication, she was diagnosed with gastroparesis. That was a year ago. Now, she “can’t eat normally and gets some nourishment through a feeding tube. She remains weak, barely able to walk around the corner to her sister’s house.”