Iconic rock matriarch Sharon Osbourne has always been vocal about her body image struggles and surgeries, but according to new reports, her experience with weight loss jabs has caused concern
Sharon Osbourne’s friends are “desperately worried about her health” according to a new report.
The 72-year-old has been pictured looking incredibly frail as her body fails to adapt to ‘normal life’ after she took diabetes injection Ozempic for four months at the start of 2023. During her time on the drug – which was developed to treat type 2 diabetes – she lost around 42lbs.
Standing at just 5″2 and now weighing just 7 stone, her BMI puts her in the underweight category, and it’s been reported she is aware that she looks quite unwell.
A source said: “Sharon simply can’t eat. If you go for dinner with her, she pushes her food around her plate.
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“She struggles to eat a bowl of fruit. She has stopped taking Ozempic but the after effects have been awful for her. She didn’t expect it to end up like this.
“She looks in the mirror, she knows what she looks like. She’s gaunt, she’s so thin and while she has been very trim for a long time, this is something else and she knows it. Does she wish she never touched Ozempic? Yes,” they added to the Daily Mail.
Another friend told the title that they had encouraged her to take legal action against the manufacturers of the drug.
They said: “Nobody else seems to look like Sharon after taking it. It has completely changed her. She looks awful at times, and she knows that Ozempic hasn’t been so kind to her.”
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Sharon has spoken openly about her experience with the jab, and initially she was pleased with the dramatic results – but realised that things could have gotten out of hand.
She said: “You can lose so much weight and it’s easy to become addicted to that, which is very dangerous. I couldn’t stop losing weight and now I’ve lost 42lbs. I can’t afford to lose any more.”
Sharon’s weight struggles began after she had three pregnancies in as many years, bringing her and husband Ozzy Osbourne’s kids – Aimee, Kelly and Jack – into the world. At her heaviest she weighed more than 16 stone.
Her weight struggles are also connected to her relationship with food. She once explained that she was hooked on it the way her husband was hooked on booze ad drugs.
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She said: “I was never a druggie. When Ozzy and I were first together, I’d try to keep up with his drinking but I was useless.
“One wine gum and I’m on the floor. No, my weakness has always been food. When I’m happy, I eat. When I’m sad, I eat. I was a pig. At my heaviest, I weighed 225lb — that’s just over 16 stone. And I’m only 5ft 2in. I weighed more than my husband.”
Sharon was desperately unhappy with her appearance and admitted that despite her tough exterior, she would break down in bed at night. In 1999 she had a gastric band operation which helped her to lose 8 stone, but she had it removed in 2006 so she could maintain her slimmer frame using the Atkins Diet.
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Source: Mirror
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