RHONJ's Dolores Catania Reveals Weight Loss After Using Ozempic

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Dolores Catania has nary plans to dilatory down connected her value nonaccomplishment journey.

After archetypal revealing successful April that she's been using Ozempic, the Type 2 diabetes medicine making headlines arsenic a weight-loss drug, The Real Housewives of New Jersey prima precocious shared an update connected her plans to slim down adjacent more.

"I'm down 20 pounds," Dolores told The U.S. Sun connected July 12, adding that her extremity "is to beryllium successful the debased 130s."

"I'm being realistic," she continued. "Right present I'm 137. I was 157 erstwhile I started."

The 52-year-old explained she archetypal began taking Ozempic respective years ago on the proposal of her doc earlier switching to akin injectable anti-diabetic medicine Mounjaro.

"I was medically prescribed for some due to the fact that I americium insulin resistance/pre-diabetic and person a thyroid issue," the Bravolebrity explained. "It's questionable—what are the repercussions of this erstwhile everyone's done? Is determination broadside effects? All the doctors that I spoke to said 'no.'"

However, Dolores noted the medicine medicine isn't 100 percent liable for her caller slimmed-down appearance.

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"It doesn't hap overnight. It doesn't travel disconnected easy," she added. "I enactment retired regularly. There is nary casual hole for value nonaccomplishment and I person to ticker what I eat." 

Dolores antecedently defended utilizing Ozempic aft admitting to taking the FDA-approved medicine connected Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen earlier this year.

​​"I'm going done menopause, I person a thyroid issue, I person inflammation and value is hard to instrumentality off," she explained on PageSix's Virtual Reali-Tea podcast successful April aft her admittance connected Andy Cohen's speech amusement made waves.. "And I enactment out, and I don't devour crazy, and I was gaining weight, and it's a batch of antithetic layers."

Keep speechmaking for each personage who has weighed successful connected the Ozempic weight-loss debate.

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Raven-Symoné

"I deliberation it's precise important we recognize definite medications are made for definite people," she told E! News' Francesca Amiker, "and to not instrumentality that distant conscionable for glamazon purposes."

Raven continued, "Do what you gotta do, conscionable marque definite you prevention the medicine for the radical who really request it."

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Amy Schumer

The Trainwreck prima did not clasp backmost erstwhile she called retired celebrities for not being honorable astir utilizing Ozempic arsenic a value nonaccomplishment tool during her June 8 quality connected Watch What Happens Live. 

"Everyone and their ma is gonna effort it. Everyone has been lying saying, 'Oh, smaller portions,'" she told Andy Cohen, who has besides ppublicly weighed successful connected the Ozempic craze aggregate times. "Like, unopen the f--k up. You are connected Ozempic oregon 1 of those things, oregon you got enactment done. Just stop."

Schumer, who has been unfastened astir her past aesculapian procedures, added, "Be existent with people. When I got lipo, I said I got lipo."

She admitted to becoming "immediately invested" successful Ozempic past year, but explained that it was not "livable" for her to instrumentality the Type 2 diabetes cause and hindered her quality to walk clip with her 4-year-old lad Gene

"I was 1 of those radical that felt truthful sick and couldn't play with my son," Schumer recalled. "I was truthful skinny, and he's throwing a shot astatine maine and [I couldn't]."

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Sophie Turner

Forget winter, a blistery instrumentality is coming.

The Game of Thrones alum was not shy when it came to sharing her sentiment about Ozempic and its advertisements.

In an April 5 Instagram Story, the histrion reposted a tweet from writer Sophie Vershbow that read, "The Ozempic ads plastered crossed the Times Square subway presumption tin f--k each the mode off." One ad featured successful Vershbow's Twitter photos read, "One changeable to suffer weight," portion different offered akin text, "A play changeable to suffer weight."

Turner adding her ain commentary, writing, "WTF."

Ozempic shaper Novo Nordisk antecedently told E! News that the cause is not FDA-approved for chronic value management.

"While we admit that immoderate healthcare providers whitethorn beryllium prescribing Ozempic for patients whose extremity is to suffer weight, Novo Nordisk does not promote, suggest, oregon promote off-label usage of our medicines and is committed to afloat complying with each applicable U.S. laws and regulations successful the promotion of our products," the Danish pharmaceutical institution said successful a statement. "We spot that healthcare providers are evaluating a patient's idiosyncratic needs and determining which medicine is close for that peculiar patient."

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Chelsea Handler

Ozempic is nary laughing substance for the comedian.

Handler revealed her "anti-aging doctor" prescribed her the medicine without realizing what the cause was. "I didn't adjacent cognize I was connected it," she said during the Jan. 25 occurrence of Call Her Daddy. "She said, 'If you ever privation to driblet 5 pounds, this is good.'"

But portion she tried the drug, Handler noted that she didn't similar however it made her feel.

"I came backmost from a abrogation and I injected myself with it," she recalled. "I went to luncheon with a woman a fewer days later, and she was like, 'I'm not truly eating anything. I'm truthful nauseous, I'm connected Ozempic.' And I was like, 'I'm benignant of nauseous too.' But I had conscionable travel backmost from Spain and was jet-lagged."

Ultimately, Handler stopped utilizing the drug because it wasn't medically indispensable for her, adding that she gave distant the remaining doses to friends.

"I've injected astir 4 oregon 5 of my friends with Ozempic, due to the fact that I realized I didn't privation to usage it due to the fact that it was silly," she said. "It's for dense people. I person radical coming implicit to my house, and I'm like, 'OK, I tin spot you astatine 1, I tin spot you astatine 2.'"

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Khloe Kardashian

KoKo clapped backmost erstwhile commenters connected Instagram speculated that she was taking Ozempic. 

"Let's not discredit my years of moving out," Kardashian wrote connected a January post. "I get up 5 days a week astatine 6am to train. Please halt with your assumptions. I conjecture caller twelvemonth inactive means mean people."

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Kyle Richards

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills prima got existent about claims that she was taking the medication aft her followers connected societal media took announcement of her value nonaccomplishment earlier this year.

Richards wrote backmost to 1 idiosyncratic nether a Jan. 5 drawback connected Instagram of herself and her girlfriends aft a workout, "I americium NOT connected ozempic." In different response, Richards added, "Never person been."

That wouldn't beryllium the past clip the Bravo prima changeable down the rumors, reiterating that she is "NOT taking" the medication under a Jan. 16 station connected Instagram by Page Six

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Jessica Simpson

After fans questioned whether oregon not she was taking Ozempic, Jessica acceptable the grounds straight.

Oh Lord," she told Bustle in an interrogation published July 6. "I mean, it is not [Ozempic], it's willpower. I'm like, bash radical privation maine to beryllium drinking again? Because that's erstwhile I was heavier. Or they privation maine to beryllium having different baby? My assemblage can't bash it."

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Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi

This Shah isn't shy astir her Ozempic use. 

Gharachedaghi didn't "see a crushed to hide" being connected the medicine erstwhile discussing her wellness journey, telling Entertainment Tonight successful May that she would similar to "just speech astir it due to the fact that there's truthful galore radical retired determination who privation to bash the aforesaid happening oregon they privation to larn astir what you did."

Of her 30-pound value nonaccomplishment owed to her acquisition with Semaglutide—the generic mentation of the weight-loss drug—the Shahs of Sunset prima explained, "Obviously, I didn't look similar this 2 months ago. So..I would beryllium a liar to accidental I discontinue drinking intoxicant and you cognize each of a abrupt started moving retired similar immoderate radical similar to say."

Gharachedaghi went connected to enactment that she inactive has an appetite, saying, "I'm really a small hungry. Look I'm gonna spell fume a small cookware and I'm gonna devour definitely."

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Remi Bader

The influencer said that utilizing Ozempic to treat her benignant 2 diabetes negatively affected her wide health

"It was marque new, conscionable got FDA approved, nary 1 knew astir it and I was truthful scared," Bader recalled connected the Jan. 12 occurrence of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. "They said I request this. And I had a batch of mixed feelings."

After she went disconnected the drug, Bader—who has been unfastened astir her conflict with binge eating—said it caused a rhythm of "bad binging."

"I saw a doctor, and they were like, 'It's 100 percent due to the fact that you went connected Ozempic,'" she explained. "It was making maine deliberation I wasn't bare for truthful long. I mislaid immoderate weight. I didn't privation to beryllium obsessed with being connected it agelong term. I was like, 'I stake the 2nd I got disconnected I'm going to get starving again.' I did, and my binging got truthful overmuch worse. So past I benignant of blamed Ozempic."

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Dolores Catania

Forget shedding for the wedding due to the fact that The Real Housewives of New Jersey formed subordinate admitted she was taking Ozempic to suffer value anterior to filming the play 13 reunion. 

During the April 4 occurrence of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Catania confirmed she had been taking the antidiabetic medicine due to the fact that she didn't privation to beryllium "looking immoderate bigger than anyone else," astatine the taping, explaining, "I got connected the bandwagon." She past joked that "not one" of her co-stars wasn't besides taking Ozempic and said the lone broadside effect she was experiencing was that she was "just not hungry."

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Gracie McGraw

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's girl archetypal opened up astir taking the diabetes cause erstwhile she shared her PCOS diagnosis successful March of past year. 

"To get the close diagnosis you would request 2 retired of the 5 characteristics of PCOS and I had 4," she wrote connected Instagram astatine the time. "During my assignment with my endocrinologist I realized that whitethorn person been a origin successful my issues with weight, truthful we decided to effort a medicine to modulate my assemblage much usually and make the tools to proceed to support my assemblage and myself steadfast arsenic I get older."

Gracie offered an update connected her wellness journey successful a June 5 station aft a commenter called retired her alleged usage of Type 2 diabetes medication.

"I did usage Ozempic past year, yes," she wrote. "I americium present connected a debased dose of Mounjaro for my PCOS arsenic good arsenic moving out. No request to impeach erstwhile I person been unfastened astir it."

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