It all started with the Netflix show Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives where Maheep Kapoor criticised people for using Ozempic for weight loss , leading to a shortage of the drug for diabetic patients who rely on it to control their blood sugar levels. A user was quick to tweet, “Maheep (Maheep Kapoor) rightly called out people for using Ozempic for fast weight loss and driving it out of stock for people with diabetes. Hope she calls out Karan Johar too, the producer of Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives (sic).
” Celebrity and social media influences largely shape aesthetic trends in today's society. While Karan Johar denied using the medication, many other celebrities from Amy Schumer to Elon Musk and Kathy Bates have been open about using Ozempic or similar drugs to lose weight quickly. Unsurprisingly, the idealisation of thinness and the stigmatisation of fatness often lead people to participate in various diets and weight-loss trends.
What is Ozempic drug? In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Prachi Chandra, Lead Clinical Nutritionist at Sakra World Hospital in Bengaluru, shared, “From juice cleanses to the Atkins Diet to fen-phen, people have relentlessly searched for the magic solution to weight loss. While many of these diet trends produce short-term results, they are often unsustainable due to costs, time constraints, or extreme dietary restrictions. Ozempic offers something new to the world of dieting because it is not only effective in terms of helping people lose.