Ozempic is not officially a weight-loss drug (it's FDA approved for Type 2 diabetes), but it has made headlines due to celebrities and influencers who have used it to lose weight. After hearing about lots of people who tried Ozempic for weight loss, Lottie Moss, who is Kate Moss' younger half-sister, decided to give it a try. Reflecting on her experience with the drug, she now calls it "the worst decision I ever made."
On the September 12, 2024, edition of her Dream On podcast, the 26-year-old model spoke about how she ended up in the hospital and had a seizure after trying to use Ozempic to lose weight.
Lottie admitted that she didn't get the drug in a traditional medical setting. She was "not feeling happy with [her] weight" and she wasn't aware of some key information about the drug, like whom should consider using it for weight loss and what the risks are.
"I had a friend and she could get it for me. It was kind of below board. I'm not going to lie," Lottie explained on her podcast. "It was from a doctor, but it wasn't like you go into a doctor's office and he prescribes it for you, he takes your blood pressure and takes tests, which is what you need when you go on something like Ozempic."
Now, in retrospect, she's aware of some "small things that I wish I'd known before taking it."
"At the end of the day, it is a medication. It is dangerous. It’s not really meant for for weight loss of people that aren't of a very large size," she said as she looked back on the experience that landed her in the hospital.
After she started taking Ozempic, she began feeling sick. She described feeling nauseous and "throwing up." One day, she could hardly even drink water, so she knew she needed to seek medical attention. She remembers that her eyes were "almost concaving in."
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"I felt so sick one day. I said to my friend, 'I can’t keep any water down. I can’t keep any food down, no liquids, nothing. I need to go to the hospital. I feel really sick,'" Lottie recalled.
Her friend then took her to the hospital, where they waited a while before seeing a nurse. The nurse asked Lottie how much Ozempic she was taking. When Lottie told her, the nurse seemed horrified.
"She said, 'oh my God, that’s so not what you’re meant to be taking,'" Lottie remembered.
At one point while she was in the ER, Lottie started feeling like something was seriously off. She couldn't place exactly what was wrong, and felt like she might pass out. Then, shortly after going to see another nurse, she had a seizure, she said.
"It honestly was the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life," Lottie said.
Prior to that day, she had never had a seizure or any other serious health problems. The scary experience was enough to make her swear off Ozempic. She hopes that her story can serve as a warning to others who have thought about using the drug in a similar way. She mentioned that it can be particularly challenging to see people's Ozempic success stories if you're someone who struggles with disordered eating or body dysmorphia.
"I hope that by me talking about this, it can maybe be a lesson to some people that it's so not worth it," she said. "All these celebrities are on it right now and it’s so hard to look at that and see these dramatic weight losses especially for people with eating disorders and problems with eating. It’s so hard to see that when maybe you’re not someone who drops weight quickly or you’re struggling with recovery."
She encouraged her followers to remember that not everything on social media is real or natural, and that celebrities have "a big team behind them” helping them look a certain way.
"Be happy you have a body that actually functions and actually works instead of putting it through something like [misusing Ozempic]," she cautioned.
