“There are wild side effects that you get from messing with your most fundamental metabolic processes. . . . It’s not this casual thing,” Jia Tolentino says, on the rise of Ozempic.
One of the things that has made the Ozempic conversation a little bit confusing and misdirected is that the most prominent users are celebrities who don’t ostensibly need it. We all heard about it, probably for the first time, through reports of celebrities that had suddenly lost, like, forty pounds and were posting bikini pics, but saying that it was just because they worked out a lot.
One of the things that initially piqued my interest in this phenomenon of this drug being misused as a vanity tool was that I was a preteen adolescent in the era of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, when everyone was looking very, very skinny, and it had wild psychological effects on girls my age. It was normal to do extremely disordered things to your body because you wanted to be skinny.
One thing about these drugs is that they are still really expensive, and out of pocket they can cost upwards of a thousand dollars a month. You can get them from compounding pharmacies for cheaper. That’s a bit of a complicated issue—you’re not getting the exact same thing that comes in the Ozempic pen or the Wegovy pen. But to get these drugs covered by insurance is a bit of a hurdle. Insurance companies don’t like to cover it because, again, it’s expensive.
Let’s forget for a second about people who want to lose ten pounds or something like that. On the much more serious side, we have changed how we think about or talk about fatness, and rightly so. At the same time, there’s a very high rate of obesity, as you mentioned, which for a lot of people is not healthy.
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