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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am baffled as to why people care about how anyone loses weight. [/quote]

There are people on DCUM (I suspect, the same few people) who seem weirdly invested in thinking they're boldly "calling out" celebrities who are denying using Ozempic etc. I'd bet that the person who started this thread is the same one who started the "Kelly Clarkson should confess" or whatever thread, or is someone who posted on it insisting that a singer and talk show host owes the world details of her weight loss. Just bizarre that a few posters here feel such a need to think they're exposing celebrities' lies. Maybe they're wannabe TMZ reporters....Who cares? Why does it make these posters feel they're special, or righteous, to carp about what celebrities have done -- and denied -- since long before Ozempic existed? [/quote]

I have never posted on any of those threads until today, so I'm not a poster that you're upset with, but I think it's disingenuous for celebrities, who have a public platform, to claim that they just started walking more and that's how they magically lost the weight after years of yoyo dieting. It's the same thing as airbrushing pictures of yourself and making people think that it's normal and/or possible to have a 12-inch waist. I wish these drugs would stop being so stigmatized so that people who need them (which is a huge percentage of Americans) could take them without shame. So for celebrities to lie about taking them, to me, is gross. It's not a matter of trying to out someone like some sleazy tabloid reporter. [/quote]

Your expectations for celebrities are high and very idealistic. Just because they have a public platform, that does not mean they're going to use for any particular good other than furthering their careers, which involves looking a certain way, for many of them. Please don't misinterpret me; I'm [u]not[/u] saying it's good or right; I'm saying it's reality. Why care so much if Kelly Clarkson lied about using Ozempic or whatever? What does her shame or hiding mean to your life?

And the "stigma" around these drugs, well, what stigma? There might be a stigma [i]among celebrities[/i] about using these drugs, but apparently the drugs are easy to obtain for most people because the drug makers and doctors are happy to sell you weight loss meds. Plenty of article in the Post and elsewhere about doctors prescribing this stuff readily. If you want to use these drugs, [i]you can, without shame[/i]. Though you might want to look up "phen-fen" and its banning in the 1990s, for a cautionary tale about weight loss through medication. I mean that seriously; I see all the Ozempic love and can only remember the equally intense popularity of super legit, supposedly safe, doctor-recommended phen-fen, and how that turned out. [/quote]

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