Sharon Osbourne, 71, acknowledges the need to gain weight after shedding 42lbs on Ozempic and decides against further surgery

Sharon Osbourne has admitted that she ‘needed to put weight back on’ after losing a shocking 42lbs on Ozempic.

The reality star, 71, has lost 42 pounds with the help of the weight loss and diabetes drug Ozempic. The drug is also known as Wegovy – the brand name for semaglutide, which works in the brain to make users feel full.

Sharon also revealed her fears that she ‘shouldn’t have any more cosmetic surgery’ because of her age.

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Sharon recalled the moment that she told herself she needed to stop losing weight after taking the drug.

Speaking to Woman magazine, Sharon shared: ‘I started using it in November last year. I was 142lb [10st 2lb] when I started using it. For the first two or three weeks I felt very nauseous. 

Sharon Osbourne, 71, has admitted that she ‘needed to put weight back on’ after losing a shocking 42lbs on Ozempic

The reality star, 71, has lost 42 pounds with the help of the weight loss and diabetes drug Ozempic. The drug is also known as Wegovy – the brand name for semaglutide, which works in the brain to make users feel full

‘The nausea went away, but once you’re on it you don’t feel hungry and you don’t eat. It’s not talked about but you can get a blockage in your bowel. 

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‘I haven’t been on it for three or four months. My weight has stabilised. I went down to about 97lb [6st 13lb] and it was like, “Oh no.” I needed to put some weight back on, which I have.’

According to the Ozempic website, using the drug can have uncomfortable side effects that include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhoea and constipation. 

Speaking about her experience with the drug, Sharon previously said: ‘I started on Ozempic last December and I’ve been off it for a while now, but my warning is don’t give it to teenagers, it’s just too easy…

‘You can lose so much weight and it’s easy to become addicted to that, which is very dangerous. I couldn’t stop losing weight and now I’ve lost 42 lbs. and I can’t afford to lose any more.’

In an interview with Piers Morgan in September, Sharon spoke about how the side effects affected her: ‘I was about two three weeks where I felt nauseous the whole time. You get very thirsty and you don’t eat.’

She spoke about her concerns over the weight loss drug which left her ‘feeling nauseous the whole time’ as she appeared on Good Morning Britain.

Sharon also spoke to the publication about the possibility of having surgery again is quite slim – and also doesn’t know why there is a stigma around it

She added: ‘It’s difficult because I don’t know what’s going to drop in the next four or five years. I’m at an age where I shouldn’t really have any more surgery, so I don’t think so. ‘I have [always been open about having surgery] and I don’t get why you wouldn’t be.’

Sharon told hosts Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway: ‘It does what it says on the packet, it absolutely does. But my only fear is that it is put in the right hands. I don’t think it’s for teenagers at all.

‘I’m scared for 16 to 20-year-olds. It’s easy to say; “This is it, I can eat what I want and keep taking this injection. I think it needs to be in the hands of older people that totally understand that there can be side effects to this. 

‘I don’t want young girls because the world we live in today everyone wants to be skinny.’

Sharon also spoke to the publication about the possibility of having surgery again is quite slim – and also doesn’t know why there is a stigma around it.

She added: ‘It’s difficult because I don’t know what’s going to drop in the next four or five years. I’m at an age where I shouldn’t really have any more surgery, so I don’t think so. 

‘I have [always been open about having surgery] and I don’t get why you wouldn’t be. There’s no shame in it, so why are people embarrassed? 

‘If there’s something on your face or body that you don’t like and you’re in a position to change it, change it.’

Sharon previously admitted that she was left looking like ‘Quasimodo’ after undergoing a facelift earlier this year.

Sharon previously admitted that she was left looking like ‘Quasimodo’ after undergoing a facelift earlier this year 

She has been open about her fondness for getting plastic surgery over the years, but hasn’t denied having regrets (pictured in 2003)

She has revealed that she last went under the knife in order to fix a previous operation that left her looking like the deformed protagonist in Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (character pictured in 1996 Disney adaptation)

She has been open about her fondness for getting plastic surgery over the years, but hasn’t denied having regrets.

She revealed that she last went under the knife in order to fix a previous operation that left her looking like the deformed protagonist in Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

The Daily Star quotes Sharon as saying: ‘There’s not one part of my body that I haven’t had twisted, lifted, elongated, whatever.

‘I’ve been messed up many times. This last one was a kind of fix-it job from the guy that did it before.

‘I looked like Quasimodo, because I had one eye here, one eye there. It was wicked.’

The mother-of-three has previously opened up about the disastrous facelift, which took place in October 2021 and took five and a half hours.

Speaking to The Sunday Times, she said: ‘I’m telling you, it was horrendous. I’m, like [to the surgeon], “You’ve got to be f*****g joking.”

‘One eye was different to the other. I looked like a f*****g cyclops. I’m, like, “All I need is a hunchback”.’

Sharon added: ‘I looked like one of those f*****g mummies that they wrap [with bandages]. It hurt like hell. You have no idea.’ 

She later claimed that the botched procedure had scared her off getting anymore cosmetic surgery done.

She told The Sun: ‘That put me off and it frightens me, I really f*****g pushed it with the last facelift and I am now like, ‘No more’. Time is against me, I cannot have another facelift.’ 

Speaking to The Sunday Times, she said: ‘One eye was different to the other. I looked like a f*****g cyclops. I’m, like, “All I need is a hunchback”‘ (Pictured left in 2022 and right in 2013)

Her singer-songwriter husband Ozzy Osbourne, 74, apparently concurred that the results were not great and offered to pay to fix it.

Sharon revealed: ‘He said, “I don’t care how much it costs, we’ll get it redone”.’ 

Sharon has also said another facelift in 2019 left her looking like Elvis doing his trademark snarl, as it involved lifting her mouth.

Discussing the procedure in October 2019 on The Kelly Clarkson Show, she explained: ‘I had this thing where they lifted up my mouth and then for the first week I couldn’t feel my mouth, I can hardly feel my mouth now, to be honest with you.

‘I couldn’t find my mouth. It was numb and it was up on one side and I looked like Elvis.

‘All the kids and Ozzy are going, “Why are you snarling at me?” And I’m like, “I’m not snarling, I’m not doing anything!”‘