Lauren Manzo is getting candid about her weight loss journey. The daughter of Real Housewives of New Jersey alum Caroline Manzo is down 80 pounds — and credits the weight loss drug Mounjaro for helping her shed the last 30.
“I went gluten [and] dairy free over a year ago. I had the Lap-Band, I got it removed again. I got up to 208 pounds,” Lauren, 35, explained at Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast taping The Loft in New York City on Thursday, May 18.
Caroline chimed in to note that her daughter was “working out like an animal [and] eating right” but “she just could not lose weight.”
“So I went and I saw a functional medicine doctor. They told me you need to be gluten, dairy, soy free. I couldn’t have cucumbers, eggs, potatoes, anything like that for months. And I’ve been gluten and dairy free for over a year now. I lost 50 pounds. I couldn’t lose any more,” Lauren continued. “And my pharmacist was like, ‘Well, I heard Mounjaro works,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh, I’ll do anything.’ … Since February I lost 30 pounds from Mounjaro. And I get it — people don’t like it, people don’t applaud it, people aren’t whatever, but it’s a shot in your stomach once a week, it’s the same as Ozempic. And honestly, I really do believe that obesity and things like that — they are a major issue with people — it is causing mental health issues for me. You guys have seen the struggle with this since I’m 20 years old, and it’s been really hard for me.”
Bravo viewers followed the Manzo family on the first five seasons of RHONJ, which premiered in 2009. Caroline, husband Albert Manzo, Lauren and the couple’s sons, Albie and Chris, starred on spinoff series Manzo’d with Children from 2014 to 2016.
“I understand that people that are prediabetic or that are diabetic do need this, but I also do believe that [the Ozempic trend has] helped people [with food issues too],” Lauren said on Thursday. “I…
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