Kelly Osbourne, 39, Shot Down Ozempic Rumors After 'Rapid' Weight Loss
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Kelly Osbourne is fielding questions about her weight loss—again.
“I know everybody thinks I took Ozempic,” she told Extra in a new interview. The reality star could not be more clear that she didn’t go that route. “I did not take Ozempic,” she said. “I don’t know where that came from. My mom took Ozempic.”
Instead, Kelly said she’s been on a weight loss journey for years that led to this point. She celebrated losing 85 pounds in 2020 and now has lost weight again after welcoming her son, Sidney, in 2022.
“I had gestational diabetes and I had to lose the weight that I had gained during pregnancy,” she said. “Otherwise I was at a higher risk of actually getting diabetes, which I did not want. I cut out sugar and carbohydrates and I rapidly lost weight.”
Now 39, Kelly seems to be in a happy and healthy place. Here’s what she’s shared about her journey.
Kelly shared in 2020 that she underwent gastric bypass surgery.
Kelly shared in the summer of 2020 that she had lost 85 pounds, and she opened up about how she did it in on a podcast. Not only did she change her lifestyle in a meaningful way, but she had gastric sleeve surgery to nudge her in the right direction.
“I had surgery; I don’t give a f*** what anyone has to say,” Kelly said on the Hollywood Raw podcast. “I did it, I’m proud of it.... I did the gastric sleeve. All it does is change the shape of your stomach. I got that almost two years ago. I will never ever ever lie about it ever. It is the best thing I have ever done.”
Kelly says she also went to therapy for a year to tackle her emotional eating tendencies before going in for surgery. "The number one thing I had to do was get happy," she said. "I had to fix my head before I could fix my body. You can never go into this if you’re not in a good mindset."
She also adopted healthy eating and exercise habits. “The kind of surgery I had… if you don’t work out and you don’t eat right, you gain weight. All it does is move you in the right direction,” Kelly added. "It doesn’t solve all your problems. It’s not a quick fix.”
Kelly admitted that working on shows like Fashion Police, made her "resentful" of the entertainment industry once she lost the weight, since she felt "invisible" for so long beforehand. “This has been two years of me working on this. Figuring out if I wanted to be in this industry, figuring out if I was even capable of even losing this weight,” she said. “I did, and I figured out I wanted to keep going. I didn’t do this for anyone. It was a long process, and now I’m here and everybody is noticing.”
She switched up her diet.
Kelly told Extra that she “cut out sugar and carbohydrates.” That, she said, caused her to “rapidly lose weight.”
Kelly gets high-tech treatments to tone all over.
She’s also getting a little help from in-office treatements like EMFACE and EMSCULPT NEO to sculpt her face and tighten her body. “I had the baby and my stomach got so many stretch marks, and the skin, it looks like it lost its elasticity," she says.
“This is a device that actually is like doing 20,000 sit-ups or leg squats, so it’s literally contracting the muscles. It’s like doing yoga for the face," Dr. Glynis Ablon told Extra.
She didn’t take weight loss medications.
Kelly’s mom, Sharon Osbourne, was one of the first celebrities to publicly share that she had used Ozempic to lose weight. Sharon told The Guardian on Feb. 10 that she was “finally” more accepting of her body. “I’m through with the weight loss and all that cosmetic stuff,” she added. Sharon also shared that she felt like she lost too much weight. “I lost three stone [42 pounds] in four months. Too much,” she said. “I now weigh seven stone and can’t put on weight.”
But Kelly told Extra, “I did not take Ozempic.”
She previously had great things to say about the medication. “I think it’s amazing,” she previously told E! News. “There are a million ways to lose weight. Why not do it through something that isn’t as boring as working out?” She also added, “People hate on it because they want to do it. And the people who hate on it the most are the people who are secretly doing it or pissed off that they can’t afford it. Unfortunately, right now it’s something that is very expensive, but it eventually won’t be because it actually works.”
This isn’t the first time she’s lost weight.
Kelly has publicly discussed her weight for years.
when Kelly shared the Instagram photo, Olivia TuTram Mai, a.k.a. TV personality Jeannie Mai's mom, commented under Kelly's post. "Oh my gosh, you lost a lot of weight 😘," wrote Mai. Replying to her comment, Kelly admitted she's actually down 85 pounds. "@themamamai that's right mamma Mai I lost 85lbs since I last saw you. Can you believe it? Kaakakaka."
Kelly also shared a photo of her holding up a size 26 clothing tag (about a size 2 in U.S. sizes), writing "Yes...I'm bragging because I worked hard and it feels good!!!"
After appearing on the Dancing With The Stars in 2009, Kelly dropped 40 pounds thanks to a combination of her dance rehearsals and switching to a plant-based diet. In 2012, she became vegan with help from her boyfriend at the time, who was also a vegan chef, according to the Daily Express.
She also once told Huffpost that her new diet slowly turned into more of a lifestyle change. "Once I learned how to work out right and eat right, it’s one of those things that you just have to commit to a life change rather than being on a diet. Because a diet doesn’t work. You lose weight and you stop it and it will all come back. So you just have to take baby steps, commit to something and stay true to it."
She celebrated losing 85 pounds in 2020
Kelly started off 2020 with a plan to prioritize self-care.
"I have come to the realization that I constantly put the needs of others before my own,” she wrote in an Instagram post, also celebrating 2.5 years of sobriety. “I allow myself to be put in situations that make me feel uncomfortable for fear of upsetting someone else. Not forgetting the amount of times I co-sign the bulls— of others."
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