Jameela Jamil
“I have said what I have said about the potential harm of people using the diabetes medication for weight loss only. I fear for everyone in the next few years. Rich people are buying this stuff off prescription for upwards of 1000 dollars. Actual diabetics are seeing shortages. It’s a now mainstream craze in Hollywood. HOPE this doesn’t end the same way we were told opioids were safe. There is little to no discussion of the side effects in any advertising online. I’m deeply concerned but I can’t change any of your minds because fat phobia has our generation in a chokehold.
“I’m screaming into a void. I’m seeing people really struggle because of this stuff. It has become the exact uncontrollable wave I thought it would become and I hope that I’m worried for no reason, and that my doctors who have been advising me on this stuff are wrong, and that in 2 years nobody is saying ‘F— she was right and she tried to warn us for 6 months.’
“Wishing you all well and hope you have doctors that care about more than your size.”
Jackie Goldschneider
“An eating disorder in a needle. [It’s] sad and sickening. [I] can’t imagine what will happen if people need to suddenly stop.”
— on Instagram
“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.
“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 new body and to the attention that comes with it.
“A lot of people in the Housewives world are on Ozempic. A lot of my friends are in the Housewives world, so it was tough for me to come back and suddenly no one’s eating when we go out to dinner.”
Sophie Turner
– on her Instagram Story, in response to photos of semaglutide advertisements posted inside a New York City subway station, per The Independent
Anthony Anderson
“I will say this, it’s creating a shortage for those of us who need the medicine that we need and not for weight loss issues, but for our health.”
— when talking to PEOPLE about how the drug’s newfound popularity impacts those like him who are living with type 2 diabetes
