This might have a shot at the best Halloween costume this year. Online costume emporium Yandy has cashed in on the Ozempic weight-loss drug craze with a new Halloween costume inspired by fat-fighting injections. “Everyone is doing it,” wrote the costume bazaar on its site, where the company has infamously hawked sultry, if strange, Halloween getups inspired by current events like a COVID-19 pandemic-themed hand sanitizer getup of 2020 .
Emblazoned with the words “Snatched: Semaglutide Injection,” the costume allows revelers to cosplay as an anti-flab jab, such as Ozempic, which was one of the most talked-about drugs of 2024. The satirical outfit, titled “Sooo Snatched Costume,” features a two-piece set vaguely fashioned to resemble an Ozempic syringe, with a skimpy, body-hugging blue and orange tanktop-style dress and pill-box hat. The total price for “Sooo Snatched”: $39.
95 “Jump on that semaglutide bandwagon in Yandy’s Sooo Snatched Costume,” the listing reads, with a warning to “consult your doctor before you head outside wearing this costume [as] side effects could be humorous.” The getup couldn’t have come at a better time. Pound-purging drugs like Ozempic have become all the rage among civilians and celebrities alike due to their quick effect on weight loss.
They work by mimicking a hormone that tells the brain it’s full, thereby curbing the appetite and inducing rapid pound-shedding. However, this so-called fast-forward button for fat loss.