Sharon Osbourne, 71, admits she ‘needed to put weight back on’ after losing 42lbs on Ozempic and says she ‘shouldn’t have any more surgery’

Sharon Osbourne has admitted she had to 'gain the weight back' after losing a whopping 22kg on Ozempic.

The reality star, 71, has lost 42 pounds with the help of weight loss and diabetes drug Ozempic. The drug is also known as Wegovy – the brand name for semaglutide, which works in the brain to make users feel full.

Sharon also revealed her fears that she 'shouldn't have to have any more cosmetic surgery' because of her age.

Sharon recalled the moment she told herself to stop losing weight after taking the drug.

Speaking to Woman magazine, Sharon shared: 'I started it last November. I weighed 142 pounds (10st 2 pounds) when I started using it. The first two to three weeks I felt very nauseous.

'The nausea went away, but once you get going you're not hungry and you don't eat. It is not talked about, but you can get a blockage in your intestine.

'I haven't worked on it for three or four months. My weight has stabilized. I got down to about 97 pounds (6st 13 pounds) and it was like, “Oh no.” I had to gain some weight again, and I did.'

According to the Ozempic website, taking the drug can have uncomfortable side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and constipation.

Sharon previously said of her experience with the drug: 'I started Ozempic last December and I've been off it for a while, but my warning is don't give it to teenagers, it's just too easy…

'You can lose so much weight and it's easy to become addicted to it, which is very dangerous. I couldn't stop losing weight and now I'm down 42 pounds. and I can't afford to lose any more.”

In an interview with Piers Morgan in September, Sharon talked about how the side effects affected her: 'I was nauseous for about two to three weeks. You get very thirsty and you don't eat.'

She spoke about her concerns about the weight loss drug making her 'nauseous all the time' when she appeared on Good Morning Britain.

Sharon told presenters Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway: 'It does what it says on the tin, it absolutely does. But my only fear is that it gets into the right hands. I don't think it's for teenagers at all.

'I'm afraid of 16 to 20 year olds. It's easy to say; “This is it, I can eat whatever I want and keep taking this injection. I think it should be in the hands of older people who fully understand that this can have side effects.

“I don't want young girls because in the world we live in today everyone wants to be skinny.”

Sharon also spoke to the publication about how the possibility of having surgery again is quite remote — and also doesn't know why there's a stigma around it.

She added: “It's hard because I don't know what's going to happen in the next four or five years. I'm at an age where I really shouldn't have surgery anymore, so I don't think so.

'I've (always been open about having surgery) and I don't understand why you wouldn't. There is no shame in it, so why are people ashamed?

“If there is something on your face or body that you don't like and you are in a position to change it, change it.”

Sharon previously admitted she looked like 'Quasimodo' after having a facelift earlier this year.

She has been open about her penchant for plastic surgery over the years, but has not denied that she regrets it.

She revealed that she most recently went under the knife to repair a previous surgery that left her looking like the disfigured protagonist in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

The Daily Star quotes Sharon as saying: 'There isn't a single part of my body that I haven't had twisted, lifted, lengthened, whatever.

'I've often been confused. The latter was a kind of revamp from the man who did it before.

'I looked like Quasimodo, because I had one eye here, one eye there. It was bad.'

The mother-of-three previously opened up about the disastrous facelift, which took place in October 2021 and lasted five and a half hours.

She told The Sunday Times: 'I'm telling you, it was terrible. I say (to the surgeon), “You must be joking.”

'One eye was different from the other. I looked like a damn Cyclops. I'm like, 'All I need is a hunchback.'

Sharon added: 'I looked like one of those damn mummies they wrap (with bandages). It hurt like hell. You have no idea.'

She later claimed that the botched procedure had put her off having any more cosmetic surgery.

She told The Sun: 'That put me off and it scares me, I really pushed it with the last facelift and I'm now thinking, 'No more'. Time is against me, I can't have another facelift.'

Her husband, singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne, 74, apparently agreed that the results weren't great and offered to pay to fix it.

Sharon revealed: 'He said, 'I don't care how much it costs, we'll have it redone'.'

Sharon has also said that a new facelift in 2019 made her look like Elvis making his signature snarl because it involved lifting her mouth.

Discussing the procedure in October 2019 on The Kelly Clarkson Show she explained: 'I had this thing where they lifted my mouth and for the first week I couldn't feel my mouth, to be honest I can barely feel my mouth now.

'I couldn't find my mouth. It was numb and it was on one side and I looked like Elvis.

“All the kids and Ozzy are like, 'Why are you snapping at me?' And I'm like, “I'm not growling, I'm not doing anything!”'