Sharon Osbourne wants to ‘put back on another 10lbs’ after losing 42lbs and becoming ‘too gaunt’.
The music manager, 71, opened up about her journey during an appearance on Monday’s Loose Women and said she is struggling to put weight on after shedding the pounds using diabetes drug Ozempic.
She explained: ‘Everything on weight with me was like “I want it now”. The injections that I was on worked and just seems now I can’t put anything on.’
Sharon added: ‘I lost over 40lbs, If I could I would put back another 10.
‘I’m just an ordinary person who got lucky and I didn’t take advantage of that. I never want to forget I am blessed and been really lucky in my life.’
Sharon Osbourne has revealed she wants to ‘put back on another 10lbs’ after losing 42lbs and becoming ‘too gaunt’
Sharon is seen in December 2017, five years before starting her weight-loss journey with Ozempic
The star has admitted she ‘needs to put weight back on’ after losing 42lbs on Ozempic; (L) in November, (R) pictured in March 2022, before she started taking the controversial weight jab
She also recalled good old days where she filmed MTV reality show The Osbournes with her family, which host Christine Lampard described as the predecessor of The Kardashians.
Sharon explained: ‘It was very organic because nothing was planned. We filmed 24 hours and there were two different film crews.’
The TV personality also gave a health update on her rocker husband Ozzy, 75, and said he is ‘good’ – amid his battle with Parkinson’s disease after being diagnosed in 2019.
She also took on being a woman in a male-dominated industry, adding: ‘Women now are in positions of power now more than they have ever been, but men still think the same way.’
‘I had to protect myself by being a big mouth, by being overly vocal. I became a character that I really developed myself,’ she revealed.
Sharon hasn’t shied away from discussing her significant weight loss journey, admitting to the Mail On Sunday that she lost ‘too much weight’ on Ozempic.
The drug is also known as Wegovy – the brand name for semaglutide, which works in the brain to make users feel full.
She said: ‘At the end of the 1990s, I had an operation to have my stomach ‘banded’. The result was that I didn’t need to eat so much to feel full.
The music manager, 71, opened up about her journey on Monday’s Loose Women and said she is struggling to put weight on after shedding the pounds using diabetes drug Ozempic
Sharon recently admitted: ‘Now, I weigh just over 7st. I need to put on 10lb, but however much I eat, I stay the same weight’
(L-R) Christine Lampard, Brenda Edwards, Sharon Osbourne, Janet Street-Porter and Gloria Hunniford during Monday’s Loose Women
‘I was never a druggie. When Ozzy and I were first together, I’d try to keep up with his drinking, but I was useless. One wine gum and I’m on the floor.
‘No, my weakness has always been food. When I’m happy, I eat. When I’m sad, I eat. I was a pig. At my heaviest, I weighed 225lb — that’s just over 16 stone. And I’m only 5ft 2in. I weighed more than my husband.
‘So, I made it my business to lose almost half my body weight. The result was that I had flesh hanging everywhere. My breasts were flat and sagging.’
Sharon added she underwent a ‘string of cosmetic procedures’ starting with a browlift and facelift.
‘I had liposuction on my neck and had it lifted, too. I had my breasts lifted, my arms lipo-ed and my tummy tucked. I had my bum lifted and implants inserted.’
‘Then I had a facelift three-and-a-half years ago, but the guy messed up. I was left with one eye higher than the other. It took a year to put it all right. I frightened myself with what happened,’ the TV favourite recalled.
‘Last December, I resorted to injecting myself with Ozempic, a semaglutide that fools the brain into thinking you’re not hungry. I lost 42lb — that’s 3st — but it was too much.
‘Now, I weigh just over 7st. I need to put on 10lb, but however much I eat, I stay the same weight.’
The music manager said candidly: ‘I’ve had enough. I’ve given up on all interventions. I couldn’t have much more facial surgery — there’s not that much skin left to stretch, pull or cut. And I won’t have any more fillers or Botox.
‘I don’t think I’ll ever be happy with the way I look. But I’m now satisfied. It’s taken years for me to say this but I’ve learned my lesson. This is me. It’s finally time to leave well alone.’
Sharon previously recalled the moment that she told herself she needed to stop losing weight after taking the drug.
In an interview with DailyMail.com, the former X Factor judge weighed in on the effect her weight loss has had on her health.
She said: ‘I’m too gaunt, and I can’t put any weight on. I want to because I feel I’m too skinny. I’m under 100 lbs, and I don’t want to be,’ she explained, adding the warning, Be careful what you wish for.’
Speaking to Woman magazine last month, Sharon shared: ‘I started using it [Ozempic] 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.
‘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.
The TV personality also gave a health update on her rocker husband Ozzy, 75, and said he is ‘good’ – amid his battle with Parkinson’s after being diagnosed in 2019 (pictured in 2000)
‘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.’
Using the drug can have uncomfortable side effects that include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhoea and constipation.
Speaking about her experience with Ozempic, Sharon previously said: ‘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.’