Kelly Osbourne, 39, Didn't Eat Carbs Or Sugar During Her 2022 Pregnancy
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Kelly Osbourne is fielding questions about her weight loss—again.
“I just have to clarify, I've never taken Ozempic,” she told People in May 2024. “I don't know what Ozempic does to you, other than what I saw it do to my mom. I think that it is the miracle drug in the right hands.”
Kelly added that she doesn't get the criticism surrounding people who use Ozempic to lose weight. “For some reason, society is trying to paint it out to be a bad thing. And I don't understand why,” the 39-year-old said. “If you need to lose some weight, who cares how you do it, as long as you're doing it in a healthy way.”
Kelly had a similar take in another recent interview. “I know everybody thinks I took Ozempic,” the reality star told Extra, adding that that she didn’t go that route. “I did not take Ozempic. I don’t know where that came from. My mom took Ozempic.”
Instead, Kelly said she’s been on a weight loss journey for years that led to this point. She lost 85 pounds in 2020, and slimmed down again after welcoming her son, Sidney, in 2022.
“I had gestational diabetes and I had to lose the weight that I had gained during pregnancy,” she told Extra. “Otherwise I was at a higher risk of actually getting diabetes, which I did not want. I cut out sugar and carbohydrates and I rapidly lost weight.”
Now, Kelly seems to be in a happy and healthy place. Here’s what she’s shared about her journey.
Kelly shared in 2020 that she underwent gastric bypass surgery.
In the summer of 2020, Kelly shared that she had lost 85 pounds after prioritizing herself. Not only did she celebrate 2.5 years of sobriety and change her diet in a meaningful way, but she also had gastric sleeve surgery to nudge her in the right direction.
“I had surgery; I don’t give a f*ck what anyone has to say,” Kelly said on the Hollywood Raw podcast. “I did it, I’m proud of it.... I did the gastric sleeve. All it does is change the shape of your stomach. I got that almost two years ago. I will never ever ever lie about it ever. It is the best thing I have ever done.”
Kelly says she also went to therapy for a year to tackle her emotional eating tendencies before going in for surgery. "The number one thing I had to do was get happy," she said. "I had to fix my head before I could fix my body. You can never go into this if you’re not in a good mindset."
She also adopted healthy eating and exercise habits. “The kind of surgery I had… if you don’t work out and you don’t eat right, you gain weight. All it does is move you in the right direction,” Kelly added. "It doesn’t solve all your problems. It’s not a quick fix.”
Kelly admitted that working on shows like Fashion Police made her "resentful" of the entertainment industry, since she felt "invisible" before she lost weight. “This has been two years of me working on this. Figuring out if I wanted to be in this industry, figuring out if I was even capable of even losing this weight,” she said. “I did, and I figured out I wanted to keep going. I didn’t do this for anyone. It was a long process, and now I’m here and everybody is noticing.”
She switched up her diet.
Kelly told Extra in April 2024 that she “cut out sugar and carbohydrates.” That, she said, caused her to “rapidly lose weight.”
She didn’t take weight loss medications.
Kelly’s mom, Sharon Osbourne, was one of the first celebrities to publicly share that she had used Ozempic to lose weight. Thanks to the medication, Sharon has said she's “finally” more accepting of her body. “I’m through with the weight loss and all that cosmetic stuff,” she told The Guardian. Sharon also shared that she felt like she lost too much weight. “I lost three stone [42 pounds] in four months. Too much,” she said. “I now weigh seven stone and can’t put on weight.”
But Kelly told Extra, “I did not take Ozempic.”
She previously had great things to say about the medication. “I think it’s amazing,” she told E! News in February 2024. “There are a million ways to lose weight. Why not do it through something that isn’t as boring as working out?”
“People hate on it because they want to do it," she added. "And the people who hate on it the most are the people who are secretly doing it or pissed off that they can’t afford it. Unfortunately, right now it’s something that is very expensive, but it eventually won’t be because it actually works.”
In a May interview, Kelly shared a similar sentiment. “The pros outweigh the cons, and if you really do research, the kind of medication and what it can do for you cognitively and what it does for the rest of your body, like I said, it's a miracle drug,” she said, adding that she took different “peptides” and “vitamins” on her weight loss journey.
Kelly used to dislike the drug until she encountered someone who had success with it. The medication “took the mental obsession with food away," she shared on a March episode of The Osbournes Podcast, which allowed them to "dig deeper through therapy and really figure out who they were." That conversation “completely changed my opinion on it," she said.
She cut carbs when she was pregnant.
Kelly was strict with her diet when she was pregnant. (She welcomed her son Sidney in November 2022.) “I didn't get to have the pregnancy where you eat whatever you want. It sucked. I was hungry for nine months,” she told People.
Kelly developed gestational diabetes during her pregnancy, which led her to take on a “completely sugar-free diet and no carbohydrates” to try to lower her risk of developing type 2 diabetes after her pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy that causes high blood sugar levels, per the Mayo Clinic.
“It really scared me,” she said. “I didn't want to deal with any of that.”
She went "too far" with her postpartum weight loss.
Kelly has said that she went a little overboard with losing weight after giving birth to her son, sharing on a 2023 episode of the Scheananigans podcast that she was "on a mission” to slim down. “I was like, 'Well, I lost all the baby weight. Let’s see how far I can go with it,” she said. “And then went a little too far.”
Kelly added that she hid her body during her pregnancy for fear of criticism about her weight, but she’s still dealing with haters.
"Now that I’ve lost weight, everybody is criticizing and trying to figure out what it is that I’ve done, and I really just lost some weight," she said.
Kelly gets high-tech treatments to tone all over.
She’s also getting a little help from in-office treatments like EMFACE and EMSCULPT NEO to sculpt her face and tighten her body. “I had the baby and my stomach got so many stretch marks, and the skin, it looks like it lost its elasticity," she says.
“This is a device that actually is like doing 20,000 sit-ups or leg squats, so it’s literally contracting the muscles. It’s like doing yoga for the face," Dr. Glynis Ablon told Extra.
This isn’t the first time she’s lost weight.
Kelly has publicly discussed her weight for years.
In 2020, Kelly posted a selfie where she appeared visibly slimmed-down, and in response, Olivia TuTram Mai (a.k.a. TV personality Jeannie Mai's mom) commented under Kelly's post. "Oh my gosh, you lost a lot of weight 😘," wrote Mai. Replying to her comment, Kelly admitted she's actually down 85 pounds. "@themamamai that's right mamma Mai I lost 85lbs since I last saw you. Can you believe it? Kaakakaka."
Kelly also shared a photo of her holding up a size 26 clothing tag (about a size 2 in U.S. sizes), writing "Yes...I'm bragging because I worked hard and it feels good!!!"
After appearing on the Dancing With The Stars in 2009, Kelly dropped 40 pounds thanks to a combination of her dance rehearsals and switching to a plant-based diet. In 2012, she became vegan with help from her boyfriend at the time, who was also a vegan chef, according to the Daily Express.
She also once told Huffpost that her new diet slowly turned into more of a lifestyle change. "Once I learned how to work out right and eat right, it’s one of those things that you just have to commit to a life change rather than being on a diet. Because a diet doesn’t work. You lose weight and you stop it and it will all come back. So you just have to take baby steps, commit to something and stay true to it."
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