Shocked by Sharon Osbourne's appearance

I don't think it's that recent, I've been watching their podcast for ages and don't recall her looking like that in all of the time I have been.

I feel quite sorry for her. The pressure to look young and be thin must be exhausting for famous women. I can completely see and understand how/why people end up taking it to the extreme.

She did comment some months ago that she'd stopped using Ozempic but was unable to put weight back on, not for want of trying as she knew she was much too thin.

She looked phenomenal a year ago (DM said this pic was taken in May 2023)

But something has definitely changed quite dramatically based on the most recent pictures published.

I'm the same age as SO, well within a few months. I think the aging and how you feel does vary. I was lucky as I looked young for my age for many years, I didn't recognise it at the time but if I look at photos of me at 20 and me at 40 it is hard to see I've aged. At some point I did start to age and it suddenly took off at a frightening pace in my 60s. I'm not exactly sure when as I had a demanding job, am my husbands carer, did lots of childcare with GC so I wasn't that focused on it but one day I looked in the mirror and thought who the hell is that old woman? I find with friends the ones who aged gradually seem much happier with how they look now and I guess I will get used to it but I think if it sneaks up on you it can be a shock.

She is no longer young but the loss in weight has made Sharon look hideous. She has also had a lot of surgery which somehow hasn’t worked and now with the weight loss she doesn’t look great!

If you're obese, loose plenty of weight you're face will look thinner and probably "healthier", if you're already slim and loose plenty of weight (like Sharon) your face will look gaunt (specially after a certain age when we have no baby fat left), it will age you and make you look older.

My friend has lost 100 lbs on Ozempic. It's been a literal life safer for her.

Yes her face looks thinner, but she is happy and healthy and energetic.

Who cares about an "older" looking face?

I'll never choose between my ass and my face, I'll choose my health and however I look healthy.

‘Ozempic face’ implies it’s the actual weight loss drug that has caused her face to look as it does. Her face looks thin because she has lost a lot of weight. How she did it is irrelevant. Her facial fillers are now more pronounced because her face is thinner.

She has what is known as "the ozempic face": gaunt looking and corpse like face, yes she looks ill. The uber died red hair with not one grey hair and 2 inches of make up enhances her 80 year old doll looking face. She looks incredibly weird, and yes none of my business and that's her decision etc... but she's giving Katie price vibes. At some point you need to accept yourself, age, wrinkles and all. I'm not saying a shot of botox here or there, a facial treatment or even a face lift is a bad thing, as long as it "enhances" your look, nothing wrong, problem is when you over do it and start looking like a spitting image.

Why are people taking this personally, and writing long screeds, when they claim to have not seen any pictures about what this thread is discussing - the effects of a weightloss injection on a celebrity who is in the media and on television discussing these effects, and who was already underweight before she went on the injections?

People that were fat, and lose weight and have a 'normal' face will look gaunt to those that know them

People that lose too much weight or have had plastic surgery which affects where the fat lies on your face and then its out of proportion might look gaunt

Is it the worse thing in the world to look gaunt?

My face is a lot more haggard after losing 10 stone. Depending on the day and how my skin seems to feel about itself it might hang a bit, on other days it seems to plump itself out, its probably still adjusting and I read that this happens for a couple of years after signficant weight loss

I never had cheek bones, I had cheek fat, and now its gone I dont have my chubby face anymore. Someome might say its ozempic face (and as others have said this was something coined by plastic surgeons), its not even fast weightloss face because its taken me 2 years to lose it, more or less.

Ultimately, people want to sit in judgement about what someone else looks like, they certainly want to sit in moral judgement about weight loss methods and this is whats happening here. I havent seen pictures of her, nor am I interested in them. A person might or might not lose 'too much weight' and they might or might not do that via unnecessary measures but ultimately, the discussion is taking place because people love to slag someone off.

Bloody hell, 71 and still being judged on looks. How's Ozzie looking? Any other old rockers? Or is it just their WAGS that are supposed to look 25 until they - whisper it - die of old age?

Faces definitely look different with more or less fat on them and when the difference is greater than a stone or so it can look very stark to observers but that doesn't mean the person looks gaunt.

Except when they do look gaunt.

Yes she is, she still looks very ill and haggard and she said it was down to taking Ozempic, not the fact she’s 70.

facial fat loss isn't a bad thing!

Disagree- not when you are older

I lost 3.5 stone in a year and my face looks like a deflated balloon and not used injectables.😂

That article is written by facial plastic surgeons for a start and also it says nothing other than rapid weight loss can lead to facial fat loss and facial changes. In fact facial fat loss isn't a bad thing! Faces definitely look different with more or less fat on them and when the difference is greater than a stone or so it can look very stark to observers but that doesn't mean the person looks gaunt.

That article and the concept of 'ozempic face' also depends on the assertion that weight loss on semaglutides is uniformly rapid which is not the case. A small number of people respond very strongly to the drug but most people lose at a fairly steady rate, no faster than a calorie controlled diet.

The phrase is- but it is a known side effect https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37541662/

Who says there is?
sharon Osborne is lying about the long term effects of ozempic for a start, and secondly she should never have been prescribed it as she wasn't obese.

Who'd have thought it, that taking these drugs would have side effects and consequences ?

There is no magic bullet.

Absolutely. Some of the plastic surgery is horrendous. Priscilla Presley for one. She used to be very pretty., and Meg Ryan too.

Well said as always.
Women only resort to this stuff because they are criticised if they age naturally. Then they are mocked for plastic surgery.
The only way to avoid these judgements is to not age which is impossible, or to die. How lovely.

Especially when you didn’t need to lose weight in the first place.

Yeah and i don’t believe the guff about not being able to put weight on since stopping taking it. I think she still takes it but doesn’t want to admit it. I can imagine it’s easy to get psychologically addicted to it like a form of an eating disorder.

That's not how this medication works. No 'chemical change' has taken place. Once you stop taking it you literally go back to the appetite you had before. Oxempic doesn't prevent food absorption.

No it's not. This is a social media construct.