Inside Sharon Osbourne’s Weight Loss Journey: Everything She Has Said About Her Health and Using Ozempic
- - - Inside Sharon Osbourne’s Weight Loss Journey: Everything She Has Said About Her Health and Using Ozempic
Caroline BlairJuly 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Sharon Osbourne attends the "America's Got Talent" season finale on September 14, 2011 in Los Angeles, California ; Sharon Osbourne during the inaugural Rolling Stone UK Awards on November 23, 2023 in London, England.
Sharon Osbourne has been honest about her struggles with her weight over the years
The Osbournes star has also shared about her experience with the weight loss drug Ozempic
Osbourne stopped taking the medication after weighing less than 100 lbs. and has cautioned others about the use of weight loss drugs
Sharon Osbourne has been open about her health journey over the years.
The former America's Got Talent judge has shared some of the methods she's tried to lose weight, including taking medication, undergoing surgery and trying various health regimens.
In 2023, Osbourne revealed that she felt "too gaunt" and was struggling to gain weight after using, and later quitting, Ozempic, an FDA-approved prescription medication for people with type 2 diabetes.
"I'm at the point of losing too much that I have to try and maintain," she told E! in September 2023. "In my life, the heaviest I was 230 lbs. and I'm now under a hundred. And I want to maintain at about 105 because I'm too skinny. But I'm trying to have a healthy balance."
Here's everything Sharon Osbourne has said about her health and weight loss journey over the years.
Sharon lost 100 lbs. with gastric band surgery in 1999, but had it reverted in 2006
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Sharon Osbourne in 2006.
Osbourne initially started her weight loss journey in 1999 when she got gastric band surgery, a weight loss procedure that places a reversible Lap-Band around a person's stomach to reduce the organ's capacity and slow digestion, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Over the next seven years, Osbourne lost more than 100 lbs., she told Entertainment Tonight in 2014.
However, Osbourne got the band removed in 2006 after she struggled with both the side effects and the mental aspect of the surgery.
“I felt like such a cheat when I had that band on my stomach,” she told the outlet. “People are saying, ‘You look wonderful!’ And I’d go, ‘Thank you, I just have to leave and vomit.' "
She previously called herself a “food addict” who was “flip-flopping” with her weight
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Sharon Osbourne attends the Associates for Breast and Prostate Cancer's 20th Anniversary Gala on November 21, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.
Osbourne has shared that she struggled with food addiction for years.
"We all have our own little addictions that we do not in moderation but too much, and mine is food," she told ET. "I mean, I am a food addict."
She later explained to E! that she had an "eating disorder" her "entire life."
"It's a mental thing," she said of her struggles with food and body image. "Sometimes, I would eat to punish myself and then I wouldn't eat to show that I had control of my life. I tried exercising, but I'm too lazy for that."
In 2015, she told PEOPLE that she started doing the Atkins low-carbohydrate diet, and said it was "unbelievable."
"It gave me structure to a part of my life that I had very little self-control over. I always had bad problems with my weight, flip-flopping all the time, so it’s something that taught me to take care of myself," she said.
She lost 42 lbs. with Ozempic and weighed under 100 lbs.
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Sharon Osbourne attends Sidney Wilson's Birthday Jam Lunch on November 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
The Osbournes star candidly discussed her Ozempic usage and revealed that she weighed less than 100 lbs. after taking the type 2 diabetes drug for less than nine months.
“I’m too gaunt, and I can’t put any weight on. I want to because I feel I’m too skinny. I’m under 100 lbs., and I don’t want to be,” she told the Daily Mail in November 2023. “Be careful what you wish for.”
Osbourne explained that she began taking Ozempic in December 2022 but stopped using it when she was shedding pounds too rapidly.
"I couldn’t stop losing weight and now I’ve lost 42 lbs. and I can’t afford to lose any more," she explained.
She revealed that Ozzy did “not like” her weight loss
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Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon in 1987 ; Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne attend the Pre-GRAMMY Gala on January 25, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.
After losing weight with Ozempic, the former X Factor judge revealed that her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, wasn't thrilled with her thinner figure and her use of the medication.
"He doesn't like it," she said on Good Morning Britain in November 2023. "And he's scared that something is going to happen to me. He says, 'You've got skinny then something else is going to happen.' He's always thinking about the downside — that it's too good to be true."
However, Sharon also clarified that she stood by her decision to take Ozempic because she was "fed up" with struggling to lose weight.
"I just thought, 'I've tried everything so I might as well try this,' " she explained.
She later swore off weight loss drugs and became “more accepting of my body”
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Sharon Osbourne attends the announcement of Black Sabbath's final show "Back To The Beginning" on February 05, 2025 in Birmingham, England.
After taking Ozempic for less than a year, Osbourne proclaimed that she was "finally" happy with her appearance.
“I’m shaping up fine,” she told The Guardian in February 2024. “I’ve finally become more accepting of my body, my looks.”
Osbourne also announced that she was "through with the weight loss and all that cosmetic stuff."
She explained, "I was injecting myself with Ozempic and I lost three stone in four months. Too much. I now weigh seven stone [98 lbs.] and can’t put on weight."
Although she lost more weight than she had anticipated, Osbourne told the Daily Mail that she doesn't care what others have to say about her body.
“I don’t care what people say about the way I look,” she told the outlet. “I know I look gaunt and I know everything that goes along with it. And I did it.”
She added, "I’ve never really cared what people say about the way I look because I know I’ve paid a fortune to try and look attractive. I was never a beauty. I was never blessed that way. I was blessed with a pair of balls instead of great t---!"
She’s since warned against weight loss medication
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Sharon Osbourne at the Premiere Of "The Bikeriders" on June 17, 2024 in Hollywood, California.
Although Osbourne has expressed that she doesn't have regrets about taking Ozempic, she has warned others over her fears that it could become addictive.
"My warning is don’t give it to teenagers, it’s just too easy,” she told the Daily Mail. “You can lose so much weight and it’s easy to become addicted to that, which is very dangerous."
She reiterated her message on Good Morning Britain and added, "I don't think it's for teenagers at all. I'm scared for like 16- to 20-year-olds because it's easy to say, 'This is it. I can eat what I want. I keep taking this injection and I'm like this.' "
"I just think it needs to be in the hands of older people, who totally understand there could be side effects to this," Osbourne explained.
If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, The Alliance for Eating Disorders provides a fully-staffed helpline at 1-866-662-1235, as well as free, therapist-led support groups.
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