*Ozempic is good for helping shed pounds, but a new side effect from the drug is making people take another look at the potential danger surrounding its use.
According to the Daily Mail, “Ozempic feet” is the noticeable result, with celebrities being the first to experience the side-effect. The site defines the condition as “sagging or aging skin on the feet due to rapid fat loss.” It marks the latest side effect related to Ozempic, joining its predecessors “Ozempic face” and “Ozempic butt,” both caused by dramatic changes in body fat.
The health crisis comes amid Ozempic’s reign as Hollywood’s go-to weight loss option. While the drug has taken Hollywood by storm, experts warn the cosmetic downsides are catching up. The skin on the top of the foot is delicate, thin, and has lower fat reserves than the bottom or sole of the foot.
Dr Barry Weintraub, a New York-based board-certified plastic surgeon, broke down the appearance of the feet after taking Ozempic, saying “a loss of fat can impact water retention in the body and cause excessive sagging in the feet.”
Despite the consequence, folks still want Ozempic, which is known more for weight loss assistance than treating type 2 diabetes. Findings from 2024, which are likely an undercount, suggest one in eight Americans have taken a GLP-1 drug like Ozempic, according to the Daily Mail, which mentioned that fat pads in the foot can become even more scarce and lead to loose skin and wrinkles as people age.
Commenting further, Dr. Weintraub stated that taking weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro can significantly reduce the fat reserves in the whole body, including the feet, leading to excessive sagging and wrinkles due to muscle loss.
At the forefront of the issue are celebrities who have made no secret of their use of Ozempic. So much so they encounter “Ozempic face” (a gaunt look with sunken eyes, hollow cheekbones and sagging faces) and “Ozempic butt” (a description of the deflated look of a person’s backside after GLP-1 weight loss).
At the forefront of the issue are celebrities, who have made no secret of their use of Ozempic.
Among the star-studded list of stars resorting to weight loss drugs are Sharon Osbourne and Oprah Winfrey, who admit that they’ve dabbled in the substances.
Taking to social media, Osbourne posted an Instagram photo with her grandson from April 5. The sight of the pair would’ve been enough for 72-year-old former “The Talk” co-host’s followers, but her extreme weight loss and strange wrinkling on her feet upstaged them
The look of Osbourne’s feet was a noticeable departure from her perfectly smooth facial complexion, which some users claimed was achieved with a filter.
“Beautiful airbrushed photo, but feet tell your age,” one Instagrammer said, while another quipped, “How strange when the skin on your hands and feet don’t match the skin on your face.”
‘Without having had the opportunity to examine Sharon in person, the veiny and sagging skin on the top and sides of the foot might be a result of the new lack of water retention due to a decreased BMI caused by Ozempic or other such weight-loss drug,” Weintraub to the Mail about Osbourne. “As the heart becomes less taxed with extra weight, the water retention decreases, and the substructures of the foot (veins, tendons, bones) often become more visible.”
Although Osbourne hasn’t commented on the potential side effects of Ozempic, she previously stated she had to stop taking the drug because she was losing too much weight.
Winfrey wasn’t immune to looks as well, with pictures capturing the skin on the top of her feet looking looser and more saggy when she appeared at the 55th NAACP Image Awards in February. The former daytime TV queen admitted in 2023 to using a GLP-1 drug to lose nearly 50 pounds after decades of yo-yo dieting, but has remained silent on which weight-loss drug she took. She did add that she nearly reached her goal weight of 160 pounds.
Still, Winfrey, a former WeightWatchers ambassador, hasn’t commented on any side effects she experienced while on Ozempic and now refers to the drugs as a ‘maintenance tool’ and not a quick fix for dropping pounds.
Earlier this year, Winfrey confessed that taking weight-loss drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, helped her realize the truth about ‘thin people.’
“One of the things that I realized the very first time I took a GLP-1 was that all these years I thought that thin people had more willpower,” she confessed.
“They ate better food. They were able to stick to it longer. They never had a potato chip.’”
With the ups and downs of taking Ozempic, the question is, can Ozempic feet be fixed?
According to Dr. Weintraub, “With the feet, it is possible to perform a ‘foot lift’ with incisions located on the sides of the foot where they are more hidden.”
“In addition, Skinvive, a new injectable that is not a filler per se, but more of a skin plumper, can be injected in the skin of the foot much as it is used in the hands to disguise the protrusive bones and tendons,” he added.
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