Kelly Osbourne has revealed how she was once called ‘too fat’ for television by a film executive.
The 39-year-old reflected on the moment on today’s episode of The Osbournes podcast, revealing it occurred in the early 2000s did not identify the executive.
‘When I was a kid, I got pulled into the head of the agency’s office and he was putting golf balls into a cup and gave me a whole speech about how I was too fat for TV and I needed to lose weight, and that if I lost weight, I would look better,’ she said.
At the time, Kelly had been cast as Lindsay Lohan’s best friend in Freaky Friday. However, she quit when her mom Sharon Osbourne was diagnosed with cancer.
‘And he was just saying, “You’re not a movie star, but you could be one if you lost weight,”‘ she recounted.
Kelly Osbourne has revealed how she was once called ‘too fat’ for television by a film director
During today’s episode of The Osbourne’s podcast, Kelly told a story about the time a film director told her she was ‘too fat’ for television
Her brother Jack Osbourne called the incident ‘the most L.A. s–t ever,’ while Kelly retorted: ‘I know.’
‘As he’s putting golf balls into a cup in his office. And I was just, like, this is the most insulting f***ing [thing].’
It comes after Kelly has been addressing rumors surrounding her recent dramatic weight loss, with many speculating she had jumped on the 2024 craze of using Ozempic.
‘I know everybody thinks I took Ozempic,’ Kelly said in an April interview with Extra.
‘I did not take Ozempic. I don’t know where that came from. My mom took Ozempic,’ she added.
Kelly credits having her son Sidney, whom she welcomed with her husband Sid Wilson in 2022, for her stunning 85-pound weight loss.
‘I had gestational diabetes and I had to lose the weight that I had gained during pregnancy,’ Kelly explained.
‘Otherwise I was at a higher risk of actually getting diabetes, which I did not want,’ she explained. ‘I cut out sugar and carbohydrates and I rapidly lost weight.’
Kelly may not have used Ozempic, but she’s a fan of it, calling it ‘amazing.’
‘There are a million ways to lose weight. Why not do it through something that isn’t as boring as working out?’ she told E! News.
She called it ‘the most f**king insulting thing’
‘When I was a kid, I got pulled into the head of the agency’s office and he was putting golf balls into a cup and gave me a whole speech about how I was too fat for TV and I needed to lose weight , and that if I lost weight, I would look better,’ she said
She didn’t name the executive but said it was in the early 2000s and she was supposed to play Lindsay Lohan ‘s best friend in Freaky Friday but she quit when her mom Sharon Osbourne was diagnosed with cancer; pictured here in 2004
‘And he was just saying, “You’re not a movie star, but you could be one if you lost weight,”‘ she recounted
And while Kelly’s face has changed a lot over the years, she’s quick to point out that she had the gastric sleeve done which led to an 85 pound weight loss.
Gaining and then losing weight when she was pregnant with her son Sidney also left her with sagging skin.
Kelly told the outlet that she’s recently turned to a non-surgical procedure called EmFace and EmSculpt to tighten things up.
‘I’m halfway through my four face sessions, and I’m noticing such a huge difference already,’ she said of the procedure, which relies on high-intensity electromagnetic waves to tone and contour the body, and can be teamed with a version for the face called Emface.