Sharon Osbourne has revealed doctors “can’t understand” why she hasn’t been able to gain weight back after stopping using Ozempic months ago.
The music director, 71, has spoken openly about her struggle to regain weight after losing 42 pounds using the drug, used to treat people with diabetes.
Asked about her weight loss in an interview with Woman Magazine published Tuesday, Sharon said even doctors were perplexed by her inability to gain weight back.
“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 you shrink and shrivel up.”
Sharon started taking Ozempic in December 2022 and in November 2023 she told Mail On Sundayl: “I haven’t taken it for a while now.”
Sharon Osbourne revealed doctors ‘can’t understand’ why she hasn’t been able to gain weight back after stopping using Ozempic in an interview with Woman published Tuesday (pictured in March)
The music director, 71, spoke openly about her struggle to regain weight after losing 42 pounds using the drug Ozempic – intended for people with diabetes (pictured in 2015)
She had gastric band surgery in 1999, but now says she used to “eat close”, admitting to consuming two pints of ice cream every day.
Regarding why she decided to start receiving Ozempic injections, Sharon said “everyone was doing it.”
Ozempic works by suppressing hunger hormones, leaving users feeling full for longer, and unlike Sharon’s experience, studies have shown that users are likely to gain weight back very quickly.
Sharon was Celebrity Big Brother’s first ever ‘celebrity tenant’ as the show returned earlier this month for the first time in five years.
During the show, Sharon spoke about her weight loss journey with Coronation Street actor Colson Smith – who lost a staggering 10 stone after changing his lifestyle in 2020 by taking up running.
During the conversation, Sharon described weight loss as “killer” and claimed that people who don’t need to lose weight have “no idea what it’s like to lose weight.” weight “.
In January, Sharon revealed she wanted to “put on another 10 pounds” following her weight loss – where she said she became “too skinny”.
Sharon spoke about her weight loss journey on Loose Women and said she struggled to gain weight after losing weight using the diabetes drug Ozempic.
She explained: “Everything about my weight, it was like I want it now.” The injections I was getting worked and it seems like now I can’t put anything in anymore.
Asked about her weight loss in an interview with Woman Magazine published Tuesday, Sharon said even doctors were perplexed by her inability to gain weight back (January photo).
Sharon had gastric band surgery in 1999, but has now said she had a habit of “eating close”, admitting to consuming two pints of ice cream every day (2015 photo).
Sharon added: “I’ve lost over 40 pounds, 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 it. I never want to forget that I am blessed and have been very lucky in my life.
She also recalled the good old days of filming MTV reality show The Osbournes with her family, which host Christine Lampard described as the predecessor to the Kardashians.
Sharon explained: “It was very organic because nothing was planned. We filmed for 24 hours and there were two different film crews.
The TV personality also gave an update on the health of her rocker husband Ozzy, 75, and said he was doing “fine” – amid his battle with Parkinson’s after being diagnosed in 2019.
She also came to terms with being a woman in a male-dominated industry, adding: “Women are now in positions of power more than ever, but men still think the same way.”
“I had to protect myself by being a big mouth, by being too loud. I became a character that I really developed myself,” she revealed.
Sharon hasn’t been shy about discussing her significant weight loss journey, speaking to the Mail On Sunday about her weight loss.
She said: “In the late 1990s I had an operation to have my stomach ‘bandaged’. The result was that I didn’t need to eat as much to feel full.
“I was never a drug addict. When Ozzy and I were first together, I tried to keep up with his drinking, but I was useless. One wine gum and I’m on the floor.
Speaking about why she decided to start receiving Ozempic injections, Sharon said ‘everyone was doing it’ (2010 photo)
Sharon was Celebrity Big Brother’s first ever ‘celebrity tenant’ as the show returned earlier this month for the first time in five years (pictured November 2023)
“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 225 pounds, which is just over 16 stone. And I’m only 5 feet 2 inches tall. I weighed more than my husband.
“So I made it my mission to lose almost half my weight. The result was that I had flesh everywhere. My breasts were flat and saggy.
Sharon added that she had undergone a “series of cosmetic procedures”, starting with a brow lift and face lift.
“I had neck liposuction and also had it lifted. I had my breasts lifted, my arms plumped and my stomach pulled in. I had my butt lifted and implants placed.
“Then I had a facelift three and a half years ago, but the guy made a mistake. I ended up with one eye higher than the other. It took a year to sort everything out. I scared myself with what happened,” recalls the TV favorite.
“Last December, I had the injection of Ozempic, a semaglutide which makes the brain believe that we are not hungry. I lost 42 pounds – this is my 3rd – but it was too much.
“Now I weigh just over 7kg. I need to gain 10 pounds, but no matter how much I eat, I stay the same weight.