Sharon Osbourne reveals doctors ‘can’t figure out’ why she hasn’t been able to gain weight back after losing 42lbs on Ozempic – even though she stopped taking it months ago
The music manager, 71, has been open about her struggle to put weight back on after shedding 42lbs using the drug – which is used for treating people with diabetes.
Asked about her weight loss in an interview with Woman Magazine released on Tuesday, Sharon said that even medics are stumped by her inability to gain the weight back.
‘The doctors can’t figure it out,’ she said. ‘But I think it’s just because I’m getting older and as you get older you lose weight anyway and shrink and shrivel off.’
Sharon started taking Ozempic in December 2022 and in November 2023 she told Mail On Sundayl: ‘I’ve been off it a while now.’
She underwent gastric band surgery in 1999 but has now said that she used to ‘eat around it’, admitting to consuming two pints of ice cream every day.
Of why she decided to start receiving Ozempic injections, Sharon said ‘everyone was doing it’.
Ozempic works by suppressing hunger hormones,leaving users feeling fuller for long and contrary to Sharon’s experience, studies have show that users are at risk of putting weight back on very quickly.
In January, Sharon revealed that she wanted to ‘put back on another 10lbs’ after her weight loss – where she said she became ‘too gaunt’.
Sharon spoke about her weight loss journey on Loose Women and said she is struggling to put weight on after shedding the pounds using diabetic drug,Ozempic.
She explained: ‘Everything on weight with me was like ‘I want it now’. The injections that I was on worked and just seems now I can’t put anything on.’
Sharon added: ‘I lost over 40lbs, If I could I would put back another 10.
‘No, my weakness has always been food. When I’m happy, I eat. When I’m sad, I eat. I was a pig. At my heaviest, I weighed 225lb — that’s just over 16 stone. And I’m only 5ft 2in. I weighed more than my husband.
‘So, I made it my business to lose almost half my body weight. The result was that I had flesh hanging everywhere. My breasts were flat and sagging.’
Sharon added she underwent a ‘string of cosmetic procedures’ starting with a brow-lift and face-lift .
I had liposuction on my neck and had it lifted, too. I had my breasts lifted, my arms lipo-ed and my tummy tucked. I had my bum lifted and implants inserted.’
‘Then I had a face-lift three-and-a-half years ago, but the guy messed up. I was left with one eye higher than the other. It took a year to put it all right. I frightened myself with what happened,’ the TV favourite recalled.
‘Last December, I resorted to injecting myself with Ozempic, a semaglutide that fools the brain into thinking you’re not hungry. I lost 42lb — that’s 3st — but it was too much.
‘Now, I weigh just over 7st. I need to put on 10lb, but however much I eat, I stay the same weight.’
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