Chrissy Teigen confessed to using Ozempic years ago — and is finally breaking down how the “miracle drug” pulled her out of a “deep depression.”
The “Self-Conscious” podcast host told listeners on Thursday she took semaglutide “for a year or so” after experiencing a stillbirth with her son Jack.
The model, 39, “noticed no results for three, four months” before she was “finally able to” shed her pregnancy weight.
Teigen, who lost Jack in September 2020, recalled that after Ozempic use she was no longer “in this deep depression of seeing this pregnant belly with no baby in it.”
The weight subsequently “peeled off,” the “Bring the Funny” judge added, saying she experienced “Ozempic blindness.”
“You end up losing such an incredible amount of weight you don’t realize you’ve lost too much,” she said.
Teigen noted that the Type II diabetes drug was “frustrating” and “almost torturous” for her to take since she is such a big fan of food.
“Not being hungry at all, for me, I f–king hate that,” she quipped. “I love being hungry. I love eating food. I love desiring food.”
The “Chrissy’s Court” star joked about loving food so much that her husband, John Legend, makes her a “sleep sandwich” every night that she eats around 2 a.m.
Until Teigen found the “right dosage,” it took her awhile to “even get feelings of hunger” on Ozempic.
She remembered, “I would take the shot. It would be three days of forcing myself to eat food. [Then] it would wear off a bit. Day four, day five, more food. Day six, the shot again.
“I felt bad about it because it’s not bad to be hungry,” the former “Lip Sync Battle” co-host continued before describing how she “reconciled [her] time taking it.”
Teigen explained that she had been on “such a bad path in the way [she] thought about good food” and the drug helped her ditch “insane” diet “rules.”
The “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit” model felt “released from that captivity.”
She described the shame she felt, not only from being able to “actually afford” Ozempic but from being someone who was being “not truthful” with fans buying her cookbooks.
During the episode, which was a conversation with “The Magic Pill” author Johann Hari, Teigen opened up about previous struggles with food.
“As a model, I ate s–t food and threw up,” Teigen revealed. “I didn’t consider it bulimia. I actually ate so much that I would get sick [for four years]. That’s not me forcing myself to throw up.”
The cookbook author — who is the mother of daughter Luna, 9, son Miles, 7, daughter Esti and son Wren, both 2 — did not specify when or why she stopped taking Ozempic.
While she has never spoken about taking the drug before, she did poke fun at “mean” questions about looking “Ozempic much?” in a September 2024 Instagram video.
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