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If it seems like all of Hollywood was just kidding about body positivity and is now fully embracing super-skinny “heroin chic,” that’s because it is. As stars hit weight-loss drugs harder than they stomp a red carpet, their disappearing bodies prove nothing tastes as good as Ozempic feels.
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Finally free of that pesky “food noise” and undeterred by raisiny “Ozempic face,” celebrities openly flaunt the rapidly slimming effects of these off-label diabetes drugs. Telling People magazine she’s okay with not being perfect, a noticeably slimmer 63-year-old Demi Moore sparked GLP-1 rumors when she showcased razor-sharp shoulder blades in a backless gown at the Actor Awards this month. Days earlier, Moore stopped by the Gucci show at Milan Fashion Week in a leather jumpsuit, looking stick thin. “She looks like she weighs 90 pounds,” Megyn Kelly said on her show. “Like she could get blown away.”
Still grieving Ozzy Osbourne’s death in July, his wife, Sharon Osbourne, and daughter Kelly Osbourne made headlines for appearing skeletal on the red carpet at the Brit Awards in February. Responding to backlash over her severely sunken cheeks, Kelly said in a since-deleted Instagram video, “To the people who keep thinking they’re being funny and mean by writing comments like ‘Are you ill’ or ‘Get off Ozempic; you don’t look right,’ my dad just died, and I’m doing the best that I can.”
Even previous faces of the body acceptance movement are saying, “New bod, who dis?” Singer Meghan Trainor, who broke out with the thick-gang empowerment anthem “All About That Bass” in 2014, appears to be half her previous size. “I’ve never felt better. And I look incredible,” Trainor said of Mounjaro’s effects.
Comedian Amy Schumer confessed, “I’ve never been famous for being hot,” before openly trying lipo and Wegovy and finally landing on Mounjaro as her tirzepatide of choice — with the jaw-dropping Instagram carousel to prove it.
“I have a secret sauce,” claimed “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Whitney Leavitt, sticking herself with a syringe of semaglutide. “It’s regulating my blood sugar, and just, like, killing the fat, and I’m just peeing it out. At least that’s how I understand it.” She lost 20 pounds. Two years later, side effects like vomiting and diarrhea forced her to ditch Ozempic in favor of counting macros. “I was so sick on it,” she said. “When I got off of it, I gained all of that weight back, so I was like, it’s just not worth it. I need to figure out something for the long haul.”
It’s an extremely sexy promise up front: Pop a pill or get an injection and live your skinniest life. Who wouldn’t want to cash in on a trend that’s only gaining speed as GLP-1-friendly foods, supplements, and sweets flood the market?
Even once-in-a-generation tennis phenom Serena Williams said nah to workouts and seemingly unlimited wellness resources in favor of a GLP-1 offered by Ro. Notably, her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, was an early investor in the same telehealth company Williams is now paid to promote. I’m not saying you can’t be the president of, say, Hair Club For Men and also be a client, but Ro’s greatest marker of success might be this power couple’s $450 million net worth, not your skinny selfie.
Then, there’s Oprah, who tottered around Paris Fashion Week this month looking snatched as a stick. Months earlier on her podcast, she announced, “I feel strong, I feel vibrant, and I feel more connected and alive than I have in decades,” claiming to have overcome an “obesogenic environment” with weight-loss meds to feverish audience applause. Oprah was promoting her new book, “Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It’s Like to Be Free,” touting obesity as a disease that makes you gain weight, not the other way around. But that’s not all she was selling.
It’s been a minute since Oprah shocked viewers with a wagon holding 67 pounds of fat in 1988. She dropped the same amount of weight with the liquid diet Optifast. Just after the episode aired, Optifast received 200,000 viewer calls about its product. Oprah hadn’t yet linked her bank account to these types of retail juggernauts, but she wouldn’t make that mistake with her next big collab.
In 2015, when Oprah partnered with Weight Watchers, she bought 6.4 million shares for a cool $43 million. And with the phrase “I love bread,” she launched a campaign that would pay out $221 million when she vacated the company’s board in 2024. Having revealed that she started prescription weight-loss meds a year earlier, she traded point-counting for injections, calling her newfound prescription “a gift.” It’s possible that her mention of these drugs as a “lifetime thing,” hurt Weight Watchers as it struggled to adapt to the market, while boosting a global GLP-1 industry that’s projected to hit $133 billion by 2030. As for how much of that goes to Oprah, only time will tell. But as fast as this 72-year-old is shrinking, it seems diet culture’s most influential face will do anything to make a buck.
Even if you resist the trend, the relentless promotion of these drugs seeps into our consciousness. Losing weight without Ozempic is now a flex, people alleging “you’re so skinny you have to be on Ozempic” is a compliment, and worrying that dropping a few pounds will have friends thinking you’re doping is a legitimate concern. Everyone is different. For those living with obesity or weight-related illnesses, these drugs might be a lifesaving choice. Plus, FDA-approved Wegovy pills make it easier than ever to jump on the bandwagon.
“Truth Hurts” singer Lizzo, famous for her marching band bangers and unapologetically skimpy costumes, slimmed down using medications like Ozempic, while adding animal protein into her diet. When she stopped by the “Just Trish” podcast, host Trisha Paytas confessed to wanting to lose weight, too. “I do love the way I look, but … Maybe it’s just, like, my time, just to see how the reactions would be,” Paytas said. Lizzo replied, “Don’t do it because everyone’s getting thin now.”
The devastatingly skinny “heroin chic” look of the ’80s and ’90s was criticized as a glamorization of hardcore drugs. And somehow, we’re once again normalizing drug use as a beauty standard. The scary part is that the heroin chic era only ended because too many people were overdosing and dying for fashion. Hopefully that’s not an omen for GLP-1s. While doctors assure us these diabetic drugs have been studied for decades and are safe, I wonder about the long-term effects of medically induced muscle loss and slowed-down metabolism in human bodies that already naturally experience these things as we age.
As the jury deliberates on this matter, I often feel the FOMO, listening to friends talk shop about how they’re never hungry, don’t even think about drinking alcohol, and feel better than ever on GLP-1s. I do CrossFit, I get my protein and supplements, and I believed celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels when she told Maureen Callahan’s “The Nerve” podcast that these drugs aren’t for “the soccer mom who wants to lose 20 pounds for the summer vacation in Ibiza.” I think Callahan put it best when she said, “It seems like if you’re not on it, you are the freak.” This freak could really go for a glass of wine and a box of Cheez-Its right about now.
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