GLP-1 Honesty Comes at a Cost

Candidness about weight loss from celebs is refreshing, but it carries consequences for us and them

- Carla Sosenco

Once upon a time, a famous person might lose weight with alarming speed and say with a straight face that she'd done it by eating a balanced diet of smaller portions. Though we regular folks wanted that to be true — it gave us hope we could follow their simple steps and shrink ourselves — there was always a sense that they were gatekeeping other keys to success, like the employment of private chefs, extravagant at-home gyms and maybe even the sorts of drugs only the rich and privileged had access to. So it's been a breath of fresh air to hear stars cop to using semaglutides, a.k.a. GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. But that openness has its downsides too.