It’s not Ozempic.
Kelly Clarkson answered a question on many people’s minds during an interview on her talk show this week. In a candid conversation with Whoopi Goldberg, Clarkson shared that her recent weight loss is a result of an injectable medication.
The admission wasn’t planned, but Goldberg kicked it off when Clarkson commented on how much younger she looked. “First of all, it’s all the weight I’ve lost. I’ve lost almost two people,” the EGOT winner, 68, replied. “I am doing that wonderful shot that works for folks who need some help, and it’s been really good for me.”
Clarkson, 42, took Goldberg’s lead and noted that she’s recently lost a lot of weight this way, too. “Mine is a different one than people assume, but I ended up having to do that too because my bloodwork got so bad,” she shared.
“My doctor chased me for two years, and I was like, ‘No, I’m afraid of it. I already have thyroid problems. Everybody thinks it’s Ozempic, but it’s not. It’s something else.” While she didn’t name the medication, she shared that “it’s something that aids in helping break down the sugar,” adding, “Obviously, my body doesn’t do it right.”
Another reason she resisted her doctor’s advice was that she didn’t notice a change in her weight. “I didn’t see it,” she admitted. She recalled noticing her weight gain for the first time while watching a never-released birthday show filmed last April at the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles. “We were in my house in New York watching it…And then all of a sudden, I was like, ‘Who the f*ck is that?’ I swear to God. It sounds insane.” She added, “You see it and you think, ‘She’s about to die of a heart attack.’”
As for Goldberg, she similarly “didn’t see it” until someone on the set of her movie Till thought she was wearing a fat suit. “I was indignant, I was like, ‘this is not a fat suit, this is me!’ And then I saw me and I thought, well yeah it does look like I’m wearing a fat suit.”
Clarkson clarified that unlike what some may suspect, she wasn’t unhappy before. “I was never insecure about it…I was happy…People assume you’re depressed or miserable. I was not,” she said. “I was riding high with someone, and I did not know,” she added, hinting at a romantic entanglement. But when she noticed that her body had changed, the concern for her health inspired her to make a change.
On an earlier episode of her show, the singer shared that her doctors told her she was pre-diabetic. “And I was like, ‘But I’m not there yet,’” she quipped. “And then I waited two years and then I was like OK, I’ll do something about it.”
Goldberg and Clarkson are the latest in a slew of celebrities, including Oprah and Billie Jean King, to open up about their use of weight loss medications.
