Ozempic is a drug for diabetes patients, but you wouldn’t know that in Hollywood. Most stars taking it—at least the ones who’ve been honest—use it for fat loss.
But along with slimmed-down bodies has come a less-than-desirable side effect: facial wasting, now dubbed ‘Ozempic face.’
When reality TV ‘star’ Scott Disick was photographed recently, alarmed fans thought he had cancer.
Sunken eyes, gaunt cheeks, and saggy skin signal rapid weight loss, as happens with taking Ozempic injections, which is now the ‘Hollywood look.’
Ironically, in their race to look younger by losing pounds, many celebs now look years older, with wrinkles and drooping skin.
Sharon Osbourne is sounding the alarm after she lost 42 pounds in a year on Ozempic and now can’t put any weight back on.
“I’m too gaunt and I can’t put any weight on. I want to, because I feel I’m too skinny. I’m under 100lb and I don’t want to be. Be careful what you wish for,” she said.
Actor and comedian Anthony Anderson, who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, has another warning:
“Hopefully, this trend will stop” people who don’t have diabetes using the drug simply to lose weight.
“I will say this, it’s creating a shortage for those of us who need the medicine that we need and not for weight loss issues, but for our health,” he said, talking about how the drug’s popularity impacts those who are living with type 2 diabetes.
This has been a surprising boon for plastic surgeons who are frantically injecting fillers to combat the sunken look.
One plastic surgeon had this to say:
‘Ozempic face is essentially the same characteristics that we see when patients have rapid or regular weight loss.
‘We see a loss of volume in the face, and when we lose fat in the face we see signs like the cheeks are more sunken in, more sagging skin and a general hollowing out of the features.
‘Sometimes, it can have the effect of actually making a person look older — because the fat in our cheeks is what gives us a more youthful look.’
