After Oprah, Whoopi Goldberg Is the Latest Celeb to Come Out About 'Weight Loss' Drugs
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Whoopi Goldberg is speaking her truth when it comes to her physical health journey, admitting to using a weight loss drug to get a grip on her weight. But the reason why may surprise you.
On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Goldberg revealed that she’d taken popular drug Mounjaro, similar to the controversial “weight loss” drug Ozempic to help her lose weight after falling severely ill back in 2022.
Just before filming “Till,” of which she both starred and produced, she got sick with pneumonia in both lungs, came down with sepsis, and ended up being prescribed steroids as a remedy. The downside? She saw her weight go up. She said that it wasn’t until one day she saw herself in the mirror and knew something had to change.
“I had taken all those steroids, I was on all this stuff,” she said. “I just always felt like me. And then I saw me and I thought, ‘Oh! That’s a lot of me!’”
Goldberg went on to share that she weighed 300 pounds while shooting the movie, a detail that in hindsight, makes that film critic’s wrong comments about her wearing a fat suit in the film all that much more cringey.
Yet, and still, the weight didn’t seem to bother Goldberg as she stated on the show: “My weight has come and gone and up and down, but it’s never been an issue for me because I don’t listen to what other people say about me.”
She later added, “Maybe the key is to stop judging everybody. Maybe that’s the key.”
This revelation comes just as the discourse about the use of Ozempic and the like for weight loss (the former of which was originally created to aid those with diabetes, btw) has been amplified most recently by Oprah Winfrey’s shocking admission and her recent special, “An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame, and the Weight loss Revolution.”
As previously reported by The Root, Winfrey surprised fans everywhere when she revealed she had taken Ozempic to drop her weight. This admission spawned an outcry on social media due to Winfrey’s longtime status as a Weight Watchers ambassador. She has since parted ways with the company.
