Patty Stanger admits trying Ozempic, then Mounjaro, for weight loss
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At least she admitted it. Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger appeared on a podcast recently and copped to trying Ozempic and Mounjaro — drugs intended for people with diabetes or chronic obesity — for weight loss. Patti talked about the side effects she felt from Ozempic — nausea and heartburn — which was why she switched to Mounjaro like all her friends. It’s all about wanting to be a “skinny mini” and align with that Hollywood ideal.
Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger says she has taken drugs intended for people with type 2 diabetes or chronic obesity.
“I’m on the shot,” she told host David Yontef on his Behind the Velvet Rope podcast. “I’m gonna tell you the truth. I went on semaglutide, which is the ingredient in Ozempic.”
Semaglutide is a drug that is branded as Ozempic for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and Wegovy for the treatment of chronic obesity. The FDA has listed a shortage for both brands.
Stanger, speaking about the prevalence of “skinny minis” in Hollywood and the pressure to conform to that ideal, explained her experience with the drug, which has a variety of reported side effects including nausea and heartburn.
“I got the worst acid reflux,” she related. “And I was not feeling good. So, I stopped three weeks in.”
Due to the side effects, Stanger switched to another diabetes drug, Mounjaro, or Tirzepatide.
“I waited, and all my hairdresser friends went on Mounjaro,” she said. “I’m not diabetic, but I do take a sugar pill twice a day to keep my sugar down,” Stanger noted. “So my doctor recommended it, and she said, ‘I’ll give you the vial of Tirzepatide,’ which is the ingredient.”
She added, “I am not nauseous like everybody else.”
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At least Patti’s honest about doing it and why she did it, but still, just wow. There are people that actually need these drugs for conditions like diabetes and they’re not able to get them due to this off-label, vanity use. And like, if you’re having side effects on one unnecessary drug, it’s kind of insane to switch to another unnecessary drug instead of just… stopping with the unnecessary drugs entirely. I don’t know, all drugs have side effects, but there’s medical necessity and a personal cost/benefit analysis to be made there. And subjecting yourself to unpleasant side effects to go from being a perfectly healthy weight to being underweight is just… I don’t even know what to say at this point! But if you’re not diabetic and you’re taking a diabetes drug and then having to take a sugar pill as if you are diabetic, maybe reevaluate your choices.
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