Model Charlotte ‘Lottie’ Moss recounted the ‘scariest’ experience of her life after she had a seizure due to the side effects of Ozempic.
The 26-year-old – who is also the half-sister of supermodel Kate Moss – recently jumped on the current Hollywood weight loss trend, to take Ozempic, after she felt ‘unhappy’ about her weight.
On her podcast, Dream On, she explained how she got her hands on the weight loss drug through a friend in a ‘kind of below board’ way as she didn’t undergo any tests from a doctor before procuring the FDA-approved drug.
According to Lottie the amount she was given – which she injected in her leg – was appropriate for someone who weighed 100kg or more.
‘I’m in the 50s range. It’s these small things that I wish I had known before taking it,’ she added.
Now she believes taking the drug was the ‘worst decision’ she’s ever made due to the negative impact on her body which eventually sent her to the emergency room.
‘I would rather diet any day than take that again. It made me feel so nauseous, I took it for two weeks… and I’ve never felt so sick in my life, I was throwing up, it was horrible. I ended up being in bed for two days I think at one point,’ she explained.
The media personality shared that her weight plummeted from 60kg down to 57 and even as low as 53kg by the end of the two weeks which she said was ‘not a healthy weight loss.’
She continued: ‘I felt so sick one day, I said to my friend: “I can’t keep any water down, I can’t keep any food down, no liquids, nothing, I need to go to the hospital, I feel really sick.”
‘I have a picture and my eyes were almost caving in. My face was dead, there was no colour in it. We went to ER at three in the morning.’
After she explained the situation to an alarmed nurse, she was immediately ‘wheelchaired through the hospital’ to be checked over.
She recalled: ‘At one point I went to the bathroom, felt really sick, felt like I was gonna pass out and I said to her “I feel something happening, I don’t feel good”.
What is Ozempic?
According to Diabetes UK, Ozempic is a treatment for type 2 diabetes, containing semaglutide, which can help manage blood sugar levels, taken through the form of an injection once a week.
It helps your body produce more insulin when needed and also reduces the amount of glucose, or sugar, produced by the liver, and slows down how quickly food is digested.
‘As soon as I got into the room where I got seen by another nurse… I literally had a seizure from how dehydrated I was, which honestly is the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life.
‘I’ve never had seizures. I’ve never, ever had any serious health problems in my life and it just scared me so much.’
‘My friend Reece had to hold my feet down, it was just so scary, the whole situation. I didn’t know what was going on.
‘My face was clenching up, my whole body was tense, your hands clench up and you can’t move them – it feels like you are gonna break your hand. It was honestly horrible.’
Now she hopes her story can serve as a cautionary tale for those looking into using Ozempic, reiterating multiple times that it was ‘so not worth it’.
Lottie is far from the first high-profile figure to open up about their experience with the weight loss drug, although not all have been as overly negative.
In May, Sharon Osbourne’s daughter, Kelly, shared that she has not taken Ozempic but has seen the effect it had on her mother.
‘I think that it is the miracle drug in the right hands,’ she told People magazine.
‘The pros outweigh the cons, and if you really do research, the kind of medication and what it can do for you cognitively and what it does for the rest of your body, like I said, it’s a miracle drug.
‘For some reason, society is trying to paint it out to be a bad thing. And I don’t understand why.’
Other celebrities who have admitted to using Ozempic include Oprah Winfrey, Amy Schumer and Tracy Morgan.
In June, however, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that due to the high demand in the UK those turning to unofficial suppliers should be wary of counterfeit drugs that could produce ‘potentially dangerous effects.’
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