RHOC’s Heather Dubrow Slams ‘Ozempic-Shaming,’ Compares Drug to Botox 

When quite a few Authentic Housewives stars have confronted backlash for applying Ozempic to slim down, Heather Dubrow isn’t listed here for the criticism.

“I’m over this total ozempic-shaming factor, and I’m also over folks inquiring, ‘Are you on Ozempic?’” the Serious Housewives of Orange County star, 54, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, August 9. “Would you inquire a person, ‘Are you on a beta-blocker? Cholesterol? What are your statins? What’s that searching like?’ It’s private healthcare information. I don’t assume it is anyone’s enterprise.”

Dubrow even further pointed out that Ozempic and other related pounds decline prescription drugs “[seemed] to be doing the job wonders” for folks with diabetic issues extensive prior to semaglutide injections were being utilised for pounds reduction. “I believe it is gonna conclude up currently being like Botox was [when it] initial arrived out,” she told Us. “I bear in mind, I assume Terry [Dubrow] and I experienced been married, like, a yr or two, and InStyle journal interviewed me and they said, ‘What’s the strangest factor you have in your refrigerator?’ And I said, ‘Botox.’ And everybody was like, ‘[Dramatic gasp.] She stated, Botox.’ And I was like, ‘Hey, I am married to a plastic surgeon and I get injected every single few of months. It is superior.’ And now, you know, you just can’t spit in New York Town and not strike a Botox centre on a avenue corner. I imply, it’s almost everywhere.”

She continued: “I experience like these wonder bodyweight decline medicines are gonna conclude up becoming the exact same point. Furthermore, back in my day, what did we do? I took Dexatrim, I smoked cigarettes and I drank Diet Coke. Oh, that was a healthier, good system.”

Terry, 64, on the other hand, is not absolutely sure if Ozempic and Botox are absolutely comparable.

“These Ozempic-kind drugs aren’t the new Botox. They are greater. They are Botox, liposuction, breast augmentation, facelifts,” the Botched medical doctor solely told Us before this thirty day period. “Put it all together, and you’ve received a drug that is not only creating people search far better and experience much better, it’s treating the No. 1 threat factor for coronary heart condition, diabetic issues and most cancers. So, this is an unbelievably effective good thing that is truly the most sizeable, I feel, health care breakthrough in heritage.”

Prescription drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy have been principally authorised for persons who battle with diabetes, large blood tension or other continual excess weight-relevant disorders. In modern months, lots of superstars — like many of Heather’s fellow Housewives, this kind of as her RHOC costar Emily Simpson — have tried the drug to support their own body weight loss journeys.

“[My] medical doctor was just like, ‘Oh, there’s this new fat loss drug and it is just been Fda-accepted and it is excellent. I think it would seriously assistance you reduce some fat, and you’ll really feel much better and you’ll be equipped to get performing out all over again and emotion additional like oneself,’” Simpson, 47, solely informed Us last month. “And I was like, ‘OK, appears great.’ Anyway, I did that in December. It was wonderful for my diet. It genuinely just kickstarted me into consuming far better and having more healthy ’cause it can make you experience like crap ’cause practically nothing tastes superior.”

Even though Simpson was only on the drug for a brief interval, it helped inspire her to enhance her fitness schedule and study to consume greater. “It was incredibly short-lived, but it was incredibly efficient,” she said.

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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi