All of the rumors are true.
Pop star Lizzo admitted that she tried Ozempic and different fashionable weight reduction medicine after denying accusations that she used drugs to shed weight.
“It’s not easy,” Lizzo confessed throughout a dialog about Ozempic on Thursday’s episode of Trisha Paytas’ “Just Trish” podcast.
The singer, whose actual identify is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, stated she “tried everything” to shed extra pounds and ended up specializing in counting energy as a substitute of taking a weekly jab.
“It’s just the science for me, calories in versus calories out,” Lizzo added. “Ozempic works because you eat less food. That’s it. It makes you feel full, so if you can just do that on your own and get mind over matter, it’s the same s–t.”
Paytas questioned how the 37-year-old managed to regulate her meals consumption with out a shot.
The “2 Be Loved” singer credited altering her exercise routine and shared that she was now not vegan or consuming plant-based, which she has performed for “like 10 years.”
“When I was vegan, I was consuming a lot of fake meats, I was eating a lot of bread, I was eating a lot of rice, and I had to eat a lot of it to stay full, but really I was consuming like 3,000 – 5,000 calories a day,” the artist shared.
The “About Damn Time” songstress claimed she now eats complete meals equivalent to beef, rooster and fish to really feel full as a substitute of “putting a lot of fake things in there that wasn’t actually filling me up.”
Lizzo added meat again into her weight loss program throughout a visit to Japan.
“I heard the Japanese diet was the healthiest diet in the world,” she stated. “My physique was so completely satisfied. My physique was like, ‘more, more please.’ And I used to be like, ‘ok, this is what my body likes.’
“I don’t like to tell people too much about releasing weight like what I did because I don’t want people to do what I did and it doesn’t work for them. Everybody’s body is different.”
Lizzo, who closely promoted physique positivity all through her profession, didn’t specify which GLP-1 model she allegedly took or when she tried it.
Frequent GLP-1 medicine folks use to drop weight embody Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic, which was initially developed to enhance blood sugar in adults with sort 2 diabetes.
The four-time Grammy Award winner’s GLP-1 confession on the podcast occurred months after she denied accusations that she took Ozempic.
“When you finally get Ozempic allegations after 5 months of weight training and calorie deficit,” the singer wrote in an Instagram publish in September 2024.
Lizzo has been very public about her physique transformation, weight loss program and train routing on social media up to now, however she would usually deny claims that she used a GLP-1 to help together with her weight reduction journey.
In April, the singer claimed she misplaced 16% of her physique fats in a TikTok livestream by simply reducing out “two to three” Starbucks drinks day by day and specializing in a calorie deficit.
