Actress and standup comedian Rebel Wilson has admitted that she used Ozempic, a type 2 diabetes drug that is widely used for weight loss purposes and by healthy people, to lose weight. The drug helped the 44-year-old actress lose 35 pounds in 2020.
“For people like me, with uncontrollable cravings for sweets, these pills are helpful,” the actress told The Sunday Times. Earlier she said that she lost weight through proper diet and exercise.
Rebel Wilson also admitted that her entourage didn’t want her to lose weight because the movie industry benefited from her image as a “fun fat girl” and she went along with it. Everything changed in 2019, when the actress decided to have a baby: the IVF doctor advised her to lose a few pounds to get pregnant: that’s how Rebel started to lose weight. In the end, she was able to lose 35 kilograms, but the child appeared to Rebel Wilson with the help of surrogacy only in 2022.
