Two hosts of ABC’s “The View” have joined the list of celebrities opening up about using a prescription weight-loss medication for cosmetic purposes.
While discussing Oprah Winfrey’s ABC project “An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution,” Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin revealed what ultimately led to their decisions to turn to Mounjaro — which is FDA-approved to treat type 2 diabetes — at various stages in their lives.
“I had taken all those steroids, I was on all this stuff,” Goldberg said on Tuesday, People reported. “And one of the things that’s helped me drop the weight was the Mounjaro. That’s what I used.”
Goldberg said she weighed almost 300 pounds while producing and acting in the 2022 biographical drama “Till,” which centers on Mamie Till-Mobley, an educator who sought justice following the August 1955 murder of her 14-year-old son, Emmett.
In addition, she was healing from a near-death medical incident that required over a month in the hospital. She had pneumonia in both lungs and was diagnosed with sepsis, a potentially fatal illness brought on by the body’s reaction to an infection that can result in tissue damage and organ failure.
The EGOT winner admitted that she was unaware of her weight gain until she looked in the mirror one day. “I just always felt like me,” she recalled. “And then I saw me, and I thought, ‘Oh! That’s a lot of me!’”
According to People, Hostin began taking the medication after gaining weight during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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She asserted that “there is shame when you’ve gained weight” and that “I had never experienced that kind of shame before.”
“During COVID, I gained 40 pounds,” said Hostin. “All I did was eat… I love to cook, and I found out, I love to eat. And I was horrified about the fact that I would have to come out on air. So I also took…
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