Coming clean. Dolores Catania has nothing to hide when it comes to her decision to use Ozempic.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 52, revealed during the Tuesday, April 4, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that she has been taking semaglutide for weight loss for the past six weeks.
“I wasn’t going to come to the reunion looking any bigger than anyone else, so I got on the bandwagon,” Catania explained, referring to the upcoming season 13 taping.
After host Andy Cohen asked whether the Bravo star was experiencing any side effects from the prescription medication, she replied, “[I’m] just not hungry.”
Catania noted that she is “actually [taking] Mounjaro,” which she described as being “another part” of the Ozempic umbrella. “The reunion is in two weeks. I do have a trainer,” she clarified before noting that she wanted to “tell the truth” about her experience.
The New Jersey native’s insight comes nearly two months after her costar Jackie Goldschneider slammed people who are taking the FDA-approved medication for weight loss rather than its intended purpose. (Ozempic is used to help diabetes patients with weight management.)
“I can talk about Ozempic all day. It gets me so fired up,” the attorney, 46, said during a February episode of Page Six‘s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast. “I’m horrified by it. I’m not so much horrified by people wanting to lose weight — that has always been a universal thing — but I’m very, very scared of what will happen if and when people have to go off this drug.”
Goldschneider continued: “It’s just going to be a massive number of people who gain a huge amount of weight and suddenly don’t know what to do with themselves. I’m just afraid of that day. There’s going to be a lot of people with eating disorders. You start dropping massive amounts of weight. That’s so addicting. That’s how I spiraled into anorexia. You get addicted to this…
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