Lottie Moss has a warning for anyone considering taking Ozempic.
Kate Moss' younger sister opened up about her struggle with the type 2 diabetes medication, which many people use for weight loss, in an episode of her Dream On podcast, calling it “the worst decision I ever made.”
“One day I felt so sick, I said to my friend, 'I can't drink water. I can't drink any food, any liquids, anything. I need to go to the hospital. I feel really sick,'” Moss said in one episode.
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He said he was sent to the emergency room, where a nurse realized the dose Moss was taking and told him, “Oh my God, that's not the dose you should be taking.”
The 26-year-old admitted that although she received the drug through a doctor, he was not actually her doctor.
“The medicine I was taking was meant for people weighing 100 kg or more and I am 50 kg,” she said.
“I wish I had known these little things before I took it.”
While in the hospital, Moss experienced some serious side effects due to the overdose.
“I literally had a seizure due to dehydration, which was literally the scariest thing that ever happened to me in my life.
“My friend had to hold my feet down. The whole situation was really scary. My face was scrunching up, my whole body was tense.”
Moss criticised the Ozempic trend, saying it was harmful to positive body image – she was referencing trends that were very prevalent at the time her sister Kate was rising to fame.
“This heroin-chic trend is coming back right now, which is what happened in the '90s. We shouldn't go back to that,” Moss said.
“Where did body positivity go?”
But while Moss, Macy Gray, Sharon Osbourne, Rebel Wilson and other stars have admitted to using Ozempic and similar type 2 diabetes medications to lose weight, a representative for Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company that makes Ozempic, previously said the drug is “not approved for long-term weight management.”
