'The Real Housewives of Orange County' star reveals she was shamed for using the weight loss drug, Ozempic.
August 8, 2023, 4:04 AMWhen the reality TV show "The Real Housewives of Orange County" finished filming its latest season last November, star Emily Simpson said she found herselfWhen the show premiered eight months later, in June, Simpson had transformed her health, undergoing liposuction and losing over 30 pounds."People thought that I just miraculously lost all this weight, like within like a week ...
On social media, everyday people shared weight loss success thanks to the drugs, and others questioned which celebrities were privately using them. The social media coverage echoed headlines seemingly keeping a running clock on how celebrities, mostly women, seemed to be losing weight. "Real Housewives of Orange County" star Emily Simpson shared a photo on Instagram following her weight loss.What Simpson said took her by surprise was the shaming she received for using Ozempic, which she said she took by prescription for around six weeks in November, losing between five and 10 pounds.
The headlines and online chatter focused not only on people's sizes and bodies, as they have for decades, but also gave the notion that if female celebrities had taken a medication to reach that body weight, their work was invalidated.& Khloé Kardashian Accused Of Using Weight Loss Drugs By Fans," reads one headline from earlier this year.
During that time, she said she saw people in the public eye deny that they were taking a weight loss drug in a way that implied there was something wrong with it. Both Ozempic and Mounjaro are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat Type 2 diabetes, but some doctors prescribe the medication "off-label" for weight loss, as is permissible by the FDA. Wegovy is FDA-approved for weight loss.
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