Celebrity Big Brother’s Sharon Osbourne claims people who don’t have to lose weight ‘have no idea what it’s like’ – after using controversial Ozempic drug to slim down

Sharon Osbourne opened up about her weight loss journey with Colson Smith on Monday’s Celebrity Big Brother after using controversial drug Ozempic to slim down.

The 71-year-old X Factor legend, who has faced criticism over his slim appearance after taking the diabetes medication, described the weight loss as a ‘killer’.

In the latest episode, the music manager claimed that people who don’t need to lose weight have ‘no idea what it’s like’ to drop the pounds.

Sharon spoke to Coronation Street actor Colson, 25, who lost an impressive 10 stone after making a healthy lifestyle change in 2020 by taking up running.

Colson, who plays Craig Tinker in the ITV soap, revealed he struggled with his weight when he was 18 years old and was on a very ‘strict diet’.

He said: ‘I lost weight when I was 18 through a strict diet but then I found myself putting on weight and I wouldn’t eat for a day and a half and then I’d be so hungry I’d drive to KFC and order three meals and then I would hate myself and then not eat again.’

Sharon replied: ‘People who don’t have to worry about weight have no idea what it’s like. At one point I weighed 230lb. It’s a killer’.

Colson added: ‘I’m glad I’ve done what I’ve done and got the level of control. I now have discipline and my boyfriend is very supportive. If I’m having a bad day, she tells me what I need to hear’.

Previously, Colson spoke of how he used to run in disguise and only at night as he was too ’embarrassed’ by his size before his 10 stone.

Sharon, who will leave the Big Brother house early after just one week, has already faced criticism for her slim look before entering the ITV show.

The TV personality has been open about using the weight loss drug Ozempic, which is used to treat diabetes.

However, the music manager said she has since struggled to gain weight after shedding the pounds using the drug.

Speaking on Loose Women earlier this year, she said: ‘I have no regrets. Everything with weight with me was, ‘I want it now.’ The injections I got worked, but it just seems like now I can’t really put anything on.’

Sharon added: ‘I lost over 40lbs, if I could I’d put 10 more back on.

‘I’m just an ordinary person who got lucky and I didn’t take advantage of that. I will never forget that I am blessed and have been very lucky in my life.’

Sharon has not shied away from discussing her significant weight loss journey, admitting to the Mail On Sunday that she lost ‘too much’.

The drug is also known as Wegovy – the brand name for semaglutide, which works in the brain to make users feel full.

She said: ‘In the late 1990s I had surgery to have my stomach ‘banded’. The result was that I didn’t need to eat as much to feel full.

‘I have never been a drug addict. When Ozzy and I first got together, I tried to keep up with his drinking, but I was useless. A wine gum and I’m on the floor.

‘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 230lb – 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 saggy.’

Sharon added that she underwent a ‘series of cosmetic procedures’ starting with an eyebrow lift and a face lift.

‘I had liposuction on my neck and had it lifted as well. I had my breasts lifted, my arms lip-ed and my stomach pulled. I had my bottom lifted and implants put in.’

‘Then I had a facelift 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 sort it all out. I scared myself with what happened,’ the TV favorite recalled.

‘Last December I resorted to injecting myself with Ozempic, a semaglutide that tricks the brain into thinking you’re not hungry. I lost 42lb – that’s 3st – but it was too much.

‘Now I weigh just over 7. I need to gain 10 kg, but no matter how much I eat, I stay the same weight.’

Speaking about her experience with Ozempic, Sharon previously said: ‘I’ve been off it for a while now but my warning is don’t give it to teenagers, it’s just too easy…

‘You can lose so much weight and it’s easy to become addicted to it, which is very dangerous. I could not stop losing weight and now I have lost 42 kg. and I cannot afford to lose any more.’