This Diabetes Drug Is Being Prescribed Off Label for Weight Loss. Now There's a Shortage

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—and many worry that with the return of low-rise bottoms comes an infatuation with thinness. Sydney Sweeney's , which she wore to the MTV Movie & TV Awards earlier this year, sparked a debate about a potential setback for the body positive movement.

Kim Kardashian's similarly sent the internet spinning with worry that thin bodies were once again "trendy," a step back from the progress made in the last 10 years for people who don't fit the straight size mold.We almost never know with any certainty what exact methods celebrities are utilizing to look the way they do, though it’s usually a combination of measures that are financially inaccessible to .

Hollywood's latest glorification of , ​​and wearing fashions that are made "with this very thin body in mind," as Gianluca Russo, co-founder of size-inclusive digital community The Power of Plus, put it to , is harming more than just the millions of impressionable young people who consider celebrities aspirational: Disabled people are being affected, too., a diabetes drug that and suppresses appetite, oftentimes resulting in weight loss, has recently faced shortages that coincide with the drug’s exploding popularity on as a kind of miracle drug for weight loss.Whether or not the Kardashians and other celebrities are using Ozempic–as various comment sections –is irrelevant. (The family has never addressed these allegations directly, and all sisters any to diet, exercise, and nutrition.) That said, there does seem to be a correlation between the return of the thin ideal and the use of Ozempic for weight loss.