Prue Leith has reflected on her experience with weight loss jabs.
The South African-British restaurateur, broadcaster, cookery writer and novelist, 85, revealed she has attempted to shed pounds using Mounjaro, however the jab failed to help her lose weight despite impacting her appetite and energy levels.
Speaking to The Times, the Great British Bake Off judge stated that she ‘hated the bloody thing’, about Mounjaro, a prescription-only drug, also known as Tirzepatide, which is used for weight loss and the treatment of Type 2 diabetes.
Prue revealed her husband, John Playfair has lost two stone using the jabs and despite his claims that she was ‘looking thinner’, she insisted: ‘I think [that] means old and scraggy round the face. And it’s expensive.
She stated: ‘As soon as I could, I stopped. It was terrible for me’, having previously said of the medication: ‘Jabs are the wrong answer because you have to go on jabbing yourself for the rest of your life and that can’t be entirely good.’
Prue Leith has reflected on her experience with weight loss jabs (pictured in April)
The South African-British restaurateur, broadcaster, cookery writer and novelist, 85, revealed she has attempted to shed pounds using Mounjaro, however the jab failed to help her lose weight despite impacting her appetite and energy levels (pictured in 2023)
On her journey with the drug, Prue said: ‘I did try it. I took it for two months, lost my appetite completely and didn’t shed an ounce. Nothing. Every day, I got on the scales and I still weighed exactly the same as before…
‘I hated the bloody thing and I was tired all the time, presumably because I wasn’t eating. John said I looked thinner, which I think means old and scraggy round the face. And it’s expensive. As soon as I could, I stopped. It was terrible for me.’
Prue admitted she was irritated by both the failure of the jab on herself but also how the medication has caused John to cut back on his drinking.
She said: ‘He hardly drinks now and I’m a great boozer. I have two or three glasses of wine every night and he’ll only have half a glass, which he won’t finish. It’s a pity.’
Prue has been married to John since 2016, following the passing of her first husband Rayne Kruger, with whom she shares two children.
Rayne was 18 years her senior and died in 2002 after 28 years of marriage.
The couple’s two children are Li-Da, whom they adopted from Cambodia, and the politician Danny Kruger, 51, who became the first sitting Conservative MP to defect to Reform, just over a month ago.
Her latest chat comes after Prue insisted women ‘can’t have it all’ as she admitted she would have found motherhood ‘boring and tiring’ in a discussion about her career.
She claims she could not have opened her restaurant, launched her cookery school or built her catering empire if she had married and had children in her twenties.
Prue and her husband Johhn in February last year
‘It’s about timing, isn’t it? If you’re lucky enough to do well at something so you can afford the help – and really, it boils down to getting the help, because it isn’t possible to bring up two or three children and have a full time job without help,’ she told Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast.
‘I didn’t have my children until I was 34. So I had my business under my belt before I started breeding.
‘I think I would never have achieved what I have if I’d met my husband and married him when I was, you know, 22 or 23. I did meet him then, but I didn’t marry him then.’
‘If we had married that young and I had had my children, I could not possibly have run the restaurant, opened the school, because all of that was in ten years.’
She claims she could not have opened her restaurant, launched her cookery school or built her catering empire if she had married and had children in her twenties
