Roxy Jacenko has revealed how she gained 18kg after moving to Singapore with her husband Oliver Curtis and their two children in 2023.
The 44-year-old entrepreneur settled in the Southeast Asian country in July last year after selling her family home in Sydney’s Vaucluse and closing a number of her businesses.
She revealed on The Lazy CEO Podcast with Jane Lushe piled on the pounds after the move due to her lifestyle changes.
Roxy explained that she spent most of her time eating, drinking and shopping and this led to a weight gain of 18kg.
‘Being a housewife wasn’t for me. I just shopped and shopped. It was the most boring existence,” said Roxy, who announced her return to PR in September.
‘I drank 40 pounds of alcohol in a year and realized it wasn’t for me, so I went back to work.’
She also discussed the terrifying moment she overdosed on Ozempic in an attempt to lose weight.
Roxy revealed she took four times the recommended dose before experiencing severe vomiting and non-stop shaking.
Roxy Jacenko has revealed how she gained 18kg after moving to Singapore with her husband Oliver Curtis and their two children in 2023. In the photo on the left in 2023 and on the right in 2024
‘I’ve gained so much weight. I had to take off my jeans when I was in the car, so I got sucked into it,” she explained.
‘I bought it, I tried it. I took four times as much the first time.’
Roxy went on to say that she is “so sick of people” denying that they are using Ozempic, adding, “I call out everything that’s on my platform and I don’t care.”
The PR queen previously said she thought she was going to ‘die’ after taking one milligram of the diabetes treatment, which was four times the amount prescribed to her by a doctor.
‘I thought I was really going to die. I’ve had cancer, radiation therapy, all that. “It doesn’t even compare to how bad I felt when I was on this drug,” she said The Saturday Telegraph.
Roxy explained that she spent most of her time eating, drinking and shopping and this led to a weight gain of 18kg. She also discussed the moment she overdosed on Ozempic in an attempt to lose weight
‘I was fine for the first twelve hours. I threw up four times that morning, once in a rental car, and went to work.”
Roxy revealed she then suffered severe vomiting and non-stop ‘epilepsy-like’ tremors, which landed her in a drug overdose clinic for three days.
‘I called an ambulance. An ambulance was supposed to arrive in an hour, but I thought I was going to die. I went to St. Vincent’s,” she said.
Roxy has since issued a warning to anyone tempted to use Hollywood’s latest quick weight loss solution.
She said using the drug was “pathetic” and “foolish” and called on celebrities to stop lying about not using it to shed pounds.
Roxy revealed she took four times the recommended dose before experiencing severe vomiting and non-stop shaking. Pictured in November 2024
Ozempic is a hot topic in Hollywood, with stars either admitting to using the diabetes drug for weight loss or outright denying it.
Semaglutide is sold under the brand names Ozempic and Rybelsus as an antidiabetic drug used to treat type 2 diabetes.
It is also sold under the brand name Wegovy as an anti-obesity drug for long-term weight management.
The drugs act like a hormone in the brain that makes people feel less hungry and slow the elimination of food from the stomach, which promotes weight loss.
Ozempic and Wegovy have skyrocketed in popularity since becoming the first medications proven to help with weight loss.
Celebrities including Elon Musk, Remi Bader, Chelsea Handler and Amy Schumer revealed they used the drug to reduce fat.
‘I thought I was really going to die. I’ve had cancer, radiation therapy, all that. It doesn’t even compare to how bad I felt when I was on this drug,” she said. In the photo Roxy in 2022