Kelly Osbourne Clarifies She's 'Never' Taken Ozempic but Says It's a 'Miracle Drug in the Right Hands' (Exclusive)

Kelly Osbourne is setting the record straight on her health journey.

While chatting with PEOPLE about Osbourne Media House and The Osbournes Podcast, the 39-year-old said that while her mom, Sharon Osbourne, has used Ozempic (an FDA-approved prescription medication for people with type 2 diabetes), she herself has not.

“I just have to clarify, I've never taken Ozempic. I don't know what Ozempic does to you other than what I saw it do to my mom,” she says. “I think that it is the miracle drug in the right hands.”

Ozempic is one of the brand names for semaglutide — also known as Wegovy — and has been a huge topic of conversation in Hollywood.

“The pros outweigh the cons, and if you really do research, the kind of medication and what it can do for you cognitively and what it does for the rest of your body, like I said, it's a miracle drug,” Kelly says. 

She adds that she doesn’t understand why people are so fast to criticize those who do opt to utilize the drug for weight loss. 

“For some reason, society is trying to paint it out to be a bad thing. And I don't understand why,” she says. “If you need to lose some weight, who cares how you do it, as l -

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ong as you're doing it in a healthy way.”

While Kelly has never tried Ozempic in particular, she tells PEOPLE she did take different “peptides” and “vitamins” while she was on her own weight loss journey. 

Peptides are short chain amino acids, and according to Ania Jastreboff, M.D., PhD., who is an obesity medicine physician scientist at Yale University, the peptide semaglutide and other drugs in the same class are "nutrient-stimulated, hormone-based medications."

In other words, these prescriptions work in the brain to impact satiety, so people who take the drug become fuller sooner, and in turn, eat less. 

Last fall, Sharon spoke to the Daily Mail and revealed that she weighed under 100 lbs. after using Ozempic.

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“I’m too gaunt, and I can’t put any weight on. I want to because I feel I’m too skinny,” she said. “I’m under 100 lbs., and I don’t want to be. Be careful what you wish for.”

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