Chelsea Handler, Kyle Richards and More Celebrities Who’ve Spoken About the Ozempic Weight Loss Trend
usmagazine.comOzempic has become a hot topic when it comes to weight loss — with some stars confirming they have used the drug while others denied it.The Type 2 diabetes medication, which is traditionally used to improve glycemic control, has made headlines due to various Hollywood stars allegedly using it to quickly shed pounds.
Stars like Chelsea Handler, Kyle Richards and more have spoken about the diet trend.Handler, for her part, admitted during a January 2023 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she unknowingly took the medication.
She explained her anti-aging doctor prescribed her something called Semaglutide, which is another name for Ozempic.The Chelsea Lately alum claimed that her doctor told her the medicine was good to use if she wanted “to drop five pounds.” The comedian didn’t realize what the medication was until a friend informed her.“I came back from a vacation and I injected myself with it,” the former Chelsea host recalled. “I went to lunch with a girlfriend a few days later, and she was like, ‘I’m not really eating anything.
I’m so nauseous, I’m on Ozempic.’ I was like, ‘I’m kind of nauseous too.’ But I had just come back from Spain and I thought I was jet-lagged.
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