Pop star Lizzo admitted that she tried Ozempic and other trendy weight loss drugs after denying accusations that she used medications to shed weight.
During a conversation about Ozempic on Thursday’s episode of Trisha Paytas’ “Just Trish” podcast Lizzo admitted that she tried using medications to lose weight.
“It’s not easy,” Lizzo confessed.
The singer, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, said she “tried everything” to lose weight. However, she said she ended up focusing on counting calories instead of taking the 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 control her food intake without a shot.
The singer credited changing her workout routine and shared that she was no longer vegan or eating plant-based, which she has done 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,” she shared.
The “About Damn Time” songstress claimed she now eats whole foods such as beef, chicken and fish to feel full instead of “putting a lot of fake things in there that wasn’t actually filling me up.”
Lizzo added meat back into her diet during a trip to Japan.
“I heard the Japanese diet was the healthiest diet in the world,” she said. “My body was so happy. My body was like, ‘more, more please.’ And I was 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 heavily promoted body positivity throughout her career, didn’t specify which GLP-1 brand she allegedly took or when she tried it.
Common GLP-1 drugs people use to drop weight include Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic, which was initially developed to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes.
