Shocked by Sharon Osbourne's appearance

[Crystalineknowledge]

I recently saw a photo of her- she looks ill and aged. Apparently down to Ozempic - she hasn’t been able to put weight on since she stopped taking it. A shame as she was an attractive woman

It's the speed, I think. I have had eating issues before and lost weight at a stone+ per month a few times, so a similar speed to Ozempic. If I lose weight at that speed, it has an odd effect on my face for a few months after. Even if I maintain the weight loss, my body fat sort of migrates and refills my face and arse a little eventually, but can look gaunt until then.

100% with you @Crystalineknowledge and ignore the posters berating you... People are entitled to their opinion. FFS are posters NEVER allowed to say a single non-positive thing about any female celebrity - ever?! Get a grip! Sharon Osborne did look quite bizarre on CBB this year.., I am not sure why she feels the need to keep having things done to her face, and it's such a shame to see her like this.

If you watch old X Factor footage from 10-15 years ago, she looked so much better, and looked quite nice. Her being 71 has sod-all to do with how she looks now. Most women in their 70s look nothing like this. How breathtakingly offensive to suggest 'well - this is a normal look for a 71 year old woman!' Have a word with yourselves!

She was overweight when she was a young woman and has told of how unhappy it made her.

Modern times and vast wealth have enabled her to lose weight not through diet and exercise but by surgery and drugs.

In her mind there is no such thing as being too thin.

I also find it scary she apparently can’t put the weight back on - what does it do to your long term health. It’s not about her age for me, it’s about the dramatic change in her appearance which she herself puts down to Ozempic rather than illness.

She’s out there in the public eye passing comment on others, so I have no issue giving my opinion on her.

She survived stage 4 bowel cancer and still healthy enough to take Ozempic at 70. She's basically a walking miracle.

Yes @MissingMoominMamma that's my point!

Totally agree

Of course she is. But when what you have done makes you look very ill, people will pass comment.

Ozempic Face is a coming side effect, well documented.

It was stage 3. She was diagnosed at 49 and as a fellow cancer survivor it's really encouraging that it hasn't come back in 22 years.

Yes, I've read that she can't put the weight back on which must be scary. She was only 10st1lb when she began taking the drug.

I hope I look that good when Im 70

(reader - I wont)

Another weight loss injection bashing thread. Usually its because users 'pile it back on' once they've finished taking it, funny how the story changes now.

Oh come on the women doesn’t look like a “seventy one year old” and that’s why the judgement. She looks like she’s self inflicted a bunch of work and bizarre diet shit on herself and as this is a chat board people are commenting. Nothing to do with sexism/ageism/whatever

She has done interviews about what has happened due to the Ozempic, and I suppose the plastic surgery was before that. From some angles she does look to have the facial features of a seriously underweight person - but having been there myself, my face didn't get like that - I have read that there can be changes to the face as well due to Ozempic.
God, what we put ourselves through.

When you lose a lot of weight when you’re older it does age you

I actually think she is a victim of our ageist sexist world. I don’t think it’s ageist or sexist to comment, I think it’s an interesting discussion. Plus surely Ozempic should be better regulated for people that need it, I’m sure it’s useful for some people but obviously needs to be treated with caution.

The drug she was taking is for those with diabetes or for those that are morbidly obese . She doesnt mention diabetes and as we all know she was not morbidly obese

The trouble with these drugs is anyone can buy them online. Most online pharmacists supplying the UK only want a photo of you on the scales, like I could stick my husband on the scales and the following day I have a very powerful drug delivered

The drugs in themselves are not a bad idea, but the prescribing needs to be regulated

Agree. It's ghoulish. And the veneer of concern is so transparent. Everyone posting on this thread is well aware she has industrial strength dysmorphia made a million times worse by the rubberneckers commenting on her appearance. Leave her alone.

Ozempic Face is an actual phenomenon. It causes facial sagging, wrinkling and changes fat distribution in the body. That’s probably why she looks so different. It’s a known side effect of the drug.

@Devonshiregal

Oh come on the women doesn’t look like a “seventy one year old” and that’s why the judgement. She looks like she’s self inflicted a bunch of work and bizarre diet shit on herself and as this is a chat board people are commenting. Nothing to do with sexism/ageism/whatever!

Exactly this! If other people don't want to hear non-positive things about Sharon - and other female celebs, then don't open the fecking thread! People are entitled to their opinion, and aren't going to shut up because some random on the internet says so!

Coming onto a thread where someone is commenting on a female celebrity's appearance purely to finger-point, hand on hip, with cats-bum-mouth, scolding posters for saying things they don't agree with, is pathetic. People are entitled to their own opinions!

Also, as I said earlier, it's an insult to women in their 70s to suggest this is what they look like.

@soupfiend · Today 22:05

I hope I look that good when Im 70

(reader - I wont)

I hope I don't look 'that good' at 70.

(READER! - cringe🙄 I won't,) because I have no intention of EVER pumping crap into my face and body, and taking weight-loss meds.)

I actually think this is an extremely poor advert for ozempic. It seems aimed at people who will ignore the bad mentioned and think it's a miracle drug. Write it like an interview/news article and it doesn't feel like an ad. American marketing has less rules than us and maybe I'm pulling this out of my arse but the things that I notice and raise eyebrows at...

She acknowledged that she always wanted to see results quickly, but knew that wasn't possible until she started taking weight loss injections.

"I started on Ozempic last December, and I’ve been off it for a while now, but my warning is don’t give it to teenagers, it’s just too easy,"

In August 2023, Sharon explained why she decided to take Ozempic on t_. "You have a weight problem, and you’ve tried everything, and then somebody says, 'Take this injection and you’re going to be skinny,'” she said.

"You’re not hungry, but for me it’s different for everybodybut for me, the first few weeks were fcking sht because you just throw up all the time and feel so nauseous," she said. "After a couple of weeks, it goes, and you’re just fine. You feel fine, just not hungry." This one has copied weird and she says how bad it was but people will focus on feeling fine thereafter.

Typically, Ozempic is meant to be taken long-term, but Sharon stopped taking the medication after a year because she "couldn't stop losing weight," so effective she had to be taken off it.

"I could do with putting on a few pounds, but at this point the way my body is, it's not listening. It's staying where it is." And "If I could, I’d put back another 10 pounds. [But] however much I eat, I stay the same weight." Almost as if to say it's changed her body chemistry and she'll never be fat again!

Ooos I seem to have added a video by accident.

She has that weird I've had plastic surgery look. Priscilla Presley sadly now has the same look. And she was once very attractive. It looks terrible.

The crazy thing is how much Kelly Osbourne has changed.
It's not just weight loss, I think she's had most of her face 'refreshed'.

Exactly!