'RHOC' star Heather Dubrow blasts 'Ozempic shaming,' compares stigma on weight loss drug to Botox
foxnews.com"Real Housewives of Orange County" star Heather Dubrow is speaking out in defense of celebrities who use Ozempic. The 54-year-old television personality slammed critics for "shaming" stars over taking the diabetes medication, which has also become a popular weight loss drug. "I’m over this whole Ozempic shaming thing, and I’m also over people asking, ‘Are you on Ozempic?’" Dubrow told Us Weekly in an interview published on Sunday.
She continued, "Would you ask someone, ‘Are you on a beta-blocker? Cholesterol? What are your statins? What’s that looking like?’ It’s private medical information.
I don’t think it’s anyone’s business." The New York native added that Ozempic and other injectable semiglutide drugs "[seemed] to be working wonders" for diabetics before the medications started being used for weight loss.
Dubrow, who married celebrity plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow in 1999, went on to draw a comparison between Ozempic and Botox cosmetic injections "I think it’s gonna end up being like Botox was [when it] first came out," Dubrow told the outlet. "I remember, I think Terry and I had been married, like, a year or two, and InStyle magazine interviewed me and they said, ‘What’s the strangest thing you have in your refrigerator?’ And I said, ‘Botox.’ And everyone was like, ‘[Dramatic gasp.] She said, Botox.’" The reality star continued, "And I was like, ‘Hey, I am married to a plastic surgeon and I get injected every couple of months.
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