Caprice Warns Against Weight Loss Jabs After Suffering Severe Side Effects in Bid to Lose 20lbs

Caprice Bourret has warned people of the dangers of using Mounjaro or other weight loss jabs after she was left with bad side effects.

The model, 53, has always been known for her incredible figure but she decided to try the jabs after she gained 20lbs last year and was scared of being fat-shamed.

Caprice gained the weight after easing off her healthy regime and went from a size 8 to a 12 from indulging in chocolate and red wine.

She soon began suffering from ailments like heart palpitations and difficulty going up the stairs.

The star admitted she was worried about how people would perceive her after gaining weight and found it difficult to lose naturally, which she blames on the menopause.

Caprice’s doctor prescribed her with a ‘microdose’ of Mounjaro but she found the side effects too much to deal with. 

Caprice Bourret has warned people of the dangers of using Mounjaro or other weight loss jabs after she was left with bad side effects

The model, 53, has always been known for her incredible figure but she decided to try the jabs after she gained 20lbs last year and was scared of being fat-shamed

‘It was awful. I got sick to my stomach. I got dizzy and lightheaded but I kept persisting because I needed to lose the weight,’ she told The Sun. 

After losing five pounds in two months, she quit using it and returned to a strict diet, cutting out carbs and processed sugar to lose the rest of the weight.

Caprice has several friends who have used Mounjaro or Ozempic and many have reported negative consequences.   

‘When you take Mounjaro for a long time your skin changes and loosens. I’ve seen it with my friends. You think you are going to avoid it but you don’t,’ she said.

The model even claimed she knows of women who have lost their hair because they were effectively ‘starving [their] body’ while on Ozempic.

Caprice acknowledged it’s more difficult to lose weight naturally but she encouraged people to think twice about the effects of using jabs after trying it herself.

Caprice grew up in Hacienda Heights, in Los Angeles with her interior designer mother Valerie, and father Dale, an estate agent, who died in 2016. She left home at 17 and moved to New York where she began her modelling career.

She shot to fame in 1996 after appearing on the National TV Awards in a barely-there black Versace lace dress.

‘It was awful. I got sick to my stomach. I got dizzy and lightheaded but I kept persisting because I needed to lose the weight,’ she said (pictured in 2022)

Caprice acknowledged it’s more difficult to lose weight naturally but she encouraged people to think twice about the effects of using jabs after trying it herself (pictured in 1995)

‘I was on the cover of every single newspaper alive the next day and that’s how it all started,’ she said. 

And Caprice recently proved she’s still got it at 53 as she rocked a bikini while starring in a sizzling new shoot.

The model has thrown it back to her lads’ mags heyday, during which she starred on 250 covers, with a new shoot for Loaded.

The star made her first million at 25 and after a wise property investment in Surrey, has continued to build her property portfolio alongside her booming lingerie business which is said to have bagged her £24million. 

Her childhood dream though was to act and after realising she wasn’t getting cast in lead roles, she simply decided to make her own movies, launching her own film company, JJLove Productions ‘named after my boys Jett and Jax.’

She shoots multiple films a year, with her latest movie, A Scottish Christmas Secret, hitting Channel 5 later this year. 

She has also moved on from her reality TV years, which saw her appear on everything from Celebrity Big Brother to Celebs On The Farm.