Celebrities on Ozempic: A Sourced List

Two ground rules for this page.

First, everyone listed here said it themselves. No before-and-after photo analysis, no anonymous sources, no “insiders tell us.” If a person has not made a public statement about their own use, they are not on this list. Eating disorder clinicians have specifically criticized the practice of naming public figures who have disclosed nothing, and it is not journalism anyway.

Second, the drug names matter. Ozempic is semaglutide approved for type 2 diabetes. Wegovy is semaglutide approved for weight management. Mounjaro and Zepbound are tirzepatide, a different molecule made by a different company. Most people in this list did not take Ozempic, even though “Ozempic” is the word everyone searches. Where someone named a specific drug, it is listed. Where they did not, that is noted too.

Which disclosures changed the conversation?

Oprah Winfrey — unnamed weight-loss medication

Winfrey told People in December 2023 that she uses a prescription weight-loss medication. She has never said which one [1].

“I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing.”

“I realized I’d been blaming myself all these years for being overweight, and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control. Obesity is a disease.”

She left the WeightWatchers board in February 2024 and donated her shares to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, telling Jimmy Kimmel she did not want “the appearance of any conflict of interest” before hosting an ABC special on the drugs [1].

The follow-up is the most useful part of her story. In December 2025 she told People she had stopped taking GLP-1s about six months in, to see whether she could hold the weight loss on her own. Over the next 12 months she regained roughly 20 pounds despite maintaining her diet and exercise routine, and restarted [2].

“It’s going to be a lifetime thing. I’m on high blood pressure medication, and if I go off the high blood pressure medication, my blood pressure is going to go up. The same is true, I now realize, with these medications. I’ve proven to myself I need it.”

Elon Musk — Wegovy (semaglutide)

In October 2022, a follower on Twitter complimented his fitness. Musk replied “Fasting,” then followed with two more words [3]:

“And Wegovy”

He said he lost about 20 pounds. On Christmas Day 2024 he posted a photo of himself in a Santa costume captioned “Ozempic Santa,” and has argued publicly that cheap GLP-1s would do more for American health than almost anything else [4].

Serena Williams — Zepbound (tirzepatide)

Williams announced in August 2025, on TODAY and through People, that she lost 31 pounds using Zepbound after the birth of her second child. She began a GLP-1 in summer 2024, stopped, and restarted in January 2025 through the telehealth company Ro [5].

“A misconception is that a GLP-1 is a shortcut. As an athlete and as someone that has done everything, I just couldn’t get my weight to where I needed to be at a healthy place - and believe me, I don’t take shortcuts.” [1]

Disclosure: Williams is a paid Ro celebrity patient ambassador on a multi-year campaign. Her husband, Alexis Ohanian, is a Ro investor and board member. She fronted Ro’s first Super Bowl ad in February 2026, which cited 34 pounds lost in a year.

Her 2026 return to competitive tennis reopened the question of GLP-1s and sport. For the record: semaglutide and tirzepatide are not on WADA’s 2026 Prohibited List, which took effect January 1, 2026. They sit instead on WADA’s 2026 Monitoring Program, as “markers of semaglutide and tirzepatide,” in and out of competition - a list of substances that are not banned but are tracked for patterns of misuse. A WADA spokesperson told MedPage Today in February 2026 that because the drugs are not prohibited, a positive finding is not reported as an adverse analytical finding and carries no consequence for the athlete [17][18].

Whoopi Goldberg — Mounjaro (tirzepatide)

Goldberg disclosed on The View on March 19, 2024, the day after Oprah’s ABC special [6]:

“I will tell you, I weighed almost 300 lb when I made Till. I had taken all those steroids, I was on all this stuff, and one of the things that helped me drop the weight was the Mounjaro. That’s what I used.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin said on the same episode that she had also used Mounjaro. Goldberg’s broader point was about appearance-policing: “Maybe the key is to stop judging everybody.”

Kelly Clarkson — prescription she has not named, explicitly not Ozempic

On her talk show in May 2024, in conversation with Whoopi Goldberg, Clarkson confirmed she takes a weight-loss medication [7]:

“Everybody thinks it’s Ozempic. It’s not.”

She described it as “something that aids in helping break down the sugar,” said she started “because my blood work got so bad,” and said her doctor had pushed for about two years while she resisted because of existing thyroid problems.

Who has publicly said they used a GLP-1?

Person	Drug named	When	What they said
Elon Musk	Wegovy (semaglutide)	Oct 2022	“And Wegovy”; about 20 pounds lost
Chelsea Handler	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Jan 2023	Said her anti-aging doctor “just hands it out to anybody” and she did not know she was on it; stopped
Remi Bader	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Jan 2023	Prescribed while prediabetic; said her binge eating worsened badly after stopping
Amy Schumer	Ozempic, later Mounjaro	Jun 2023 / Mar 2025	Too sick to function on Ozempic; later reported a “really good experience” on Mounjaro
Tracy Morgan	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Aug 2023	“That’s Ozempic. That’s how this weight got lost”; later joked he had “out-eaten” it
Claudia Oshry	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Aug 2023	Stopped for pregnancy, restarted after breastfeeding (People, April 2026)
Sharon Osbourne	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Nov 2023	About 42 pounds lost; went under 100 pounds; warned against teenage use
Oprah Winfrey	Not named	Dec 2023	“A tool to manage not yo-yoing”; stopped and regained ~20 lb (Dec 2025)
Whoopi Goldberg	Mounjaro (tirzepatide)	Mar 2024	Weighed almost 300 lb during Till
Sunny Hostin	Mounjaro (tirzepatide)	Mar 2024	Disclosed on the same View episode
Billie Jean King	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Apr 2024	Framed around binge eating disorder; hoped it would “quiet the voices”
Kelly Clarkson	Not named; said not Ozempic	May 2024	Started after bloodwork worsened
Kathy Bates	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Oct 2024	~100 lb over seven years; ~80 lb before starting the drug for diabetes
Jim Gaffigan	Mounjaro (tirzepatide)	Nov 2024	50 lb lost from 270; still on it in 2026 for appetite, not further loss
Charles Barkley	Mounjaro (tirzepatide)	2024-2025	355 lb to about 285; regained ~12 lb off the drug
Rosie O’Donnell	Mounjaro (tirzepatide)	2023-2026	About 60 lb over three years; “stunned how it quieted the food noise”
Meghan Trainor	Mounjaro (tirzepatide)	Mar 2025	Used after second pregnancy with a dietitian and trainer
Lizzo	GLP-1, tried and later resumed	Jun 2025 / Mar 2026	Denied, then confirmed trying Ozempic, then resumed “intentionally”
Chrissy Teigen	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Sep 2025	Used after her 2020 pregnancy loss; struggled with losing hunger cues
Bunnie XO	Not named	Dec 2025	Described “a bout of suicidal ideation” while taking it
Vanessa Williams	Mounjaro (tirzepatide)	Jan 2026	Two years of use while managing menopause
Shaquille O’Neal	Zepbound (tirzepatide)	Jun 2026	For moderate obstructive sleep apnea; weight loss secondary
Chrissy Metz	GLP-1 via Ro, not named	Aug 2026	Started after years of skepticism; cited perimenopause
Harvey Fierstein	Zepbound (tirzepatide)	—	~120 lb lost from 310; regained ~15 lb after stopping
Eric Stonestreet	Mounjaro (tirzepatide)	—	Takes it for type 2 diabetes; hid the diagnosis for years
Savannah Chrisley	Tirzepatide	—	About 25 lb; now sells GLP-1s through her company Good Girl RX
Rebel Wilson	Ozempic, for maintenance	—	Used to maintain a 77 lb loss; Noom chief wellness officer since Jul 2026
James Corden	Ozempic (semaglutide)	—	Tried it; said it did not work for him
Kandi Burruss	Not named	—	Tried it for a year and lost no weight
Heather Gay	Ozempic (semaglutide)	Nov 2023	“On the Ozempic train”; modest results
Patti Stanger	Semaglutide, then Mounjaro	Feb 2023	Stopped semaglutide after three weeks of side effects
Jon Gosselin	Semaglutide	Apr 2024	32 lb in two months; said it also helped him stop drinking

Sources for the table entries: TODAY’s running compilation [1], Everyday Health’s medically reviewed roundup [8], People’s roster [9], and the individual outlets cited below.

Which celebrities said it did not work for them?

This is the part most celebrity roundups skip, and it is the most useful part for a reader deciding what to expect.

James Corden told his podcast he tried Ozempic and it did not help [1]:

“Oh no, nothing about my eating has anything to do with being hungry. All this does is make you feel not hungry.”

Kandi Burruss said on the Virtual Reali-Tea podcast that she took a weight-loss drug for a year and lost nothing [1]:

“It makes you depressed. Realistically, it makes you feel like, ‘What is wrong with me? Why is it not working for me?’”

Amy Schumer said in June 2023 that she was “one of the people that felt so sick” on Ozempic and stopped, though she reported a better experience on Mounjaro two years later [1].

Who has warned about these drugs?

Sharon Osbourne began Ozempic in late 2022 - December 2022 in secondary coverage, though we have not found a primary interview confirming the month - and stopped after losing about 42 pounds, saying she went under 100 pounds and could not gain weight back [10]:

“My warning is don’t give it to teenagers, it’s just too easy. You can lose so much weight and it’s easy to become addicted to that, which is very dangerous.”

She has also said she does not regret taking it. Both statements are hers, and both belong here.

Remi Bader told People in January 2023 that she was prescribed Ozempic while prediabetic, and that after stopping, things got worse [1]:

“It was making me think I wasn’t hungry for so long, I lost some weight. I didn’t want to be obsessed with being on it long term. I was like, I bet the second I got off I’m going get starving again. I did, and my binging got so much worse.”

Bunnie XO, the podcast host and wife of Jelly Roll, told People in December 2025 that she experienced “a bout of suicidal ideation” while on a GLP-1, describing that month as “horrific” and saying she is “good now” [1]. Regulators have reviewed suicidal ideation signals associated with this drug class; anyone experiencing thoughts of self-harm should contact a healthcare provider or call or text 988 in the US.

Which of these are paid relationships?

By 2026, “celebrity disclosure” and “celebrity endorsement” had partly merged. The commercial relationships worth knowing:

• Charles Barkley became Ro’s first GLP-1 celebrity patient ambassador on April 29, 2025, with the campaign built around his access barriers and weight regain [11].
• Serena Williams joined Ro in August 2025 on a multi-year campaign and starred in Ro’s first Super Bowl ad in February 2026 [5].
• Chrissy Metz joined Ro as a brand ambassador in August 2026 [8].
• Shaquille O’Neal partnered with Eli Lilly in June 2026 on a national obstructive sleep apnea campaign for Zepbound [8].
• Rebel Wilson became Noom’s chief wellness officer in July 2026 for a campaign arguing GLP-1 medication and habit change work better together [8].
• Savannah Chrisley now sells GLP-1 medications through her company, Good Girl RX [1].

None of this makes what they said untrue. It does mean these are advertisements as well as disclosures, and readers should weigh them accordingly.

Why is Lizzo’s case genuinely complicated?

Lizzo spent a decade as the most visible advocate for plus-size representation in American pop culture. Her arc contains the entire cultural argument.

In January 2025 she announced she had reached her “weight release goal” and credited diet and exercise. In April 2025 she posted that she had started “the weight loss shots” and then immediately stopped. In June 2025 she told the Just Trish podcast that she had tried Ozempic and found it unsustainable for her [12]:

“I tried everything… Ozempic works because you eat less food, yeah?”

In November 2025 she published an essay arguing that women “should be allowed to change” while also warning that extended clothing sizes are vanishing and plus-size models are “no longer getting booked” [13]:

“We have a lot of work to do, to undo the effects of the ozempic boom.”

In March 2026 she posted that she had resumed a GLP-1 and was “being really intentional” about it this time.

You can read that as inconsistency. It reads more honestly as one person working out in public how to hold two true things at once: that a medication helped her, and that the culture around it is costing people like her something real.

Why speculation does not belong on this page

Research published April 9, 2026 in the American Psychological Association journal Stigma & Health put this to 402 US women and found they expressed more blame, more dislike and more desire for social distance toward a woman who lost weight with a GLP-1 than toward one who lost the same amount through diet and exercise. “Shortcut” beliefs were the main driver [14].

That is the environment every person on this list stepped into voluntarily. It is also why so many people - famous or not - say nothing at all. Amy Schumer’s demand that celebrities “be real with the people” and Rosie O’Donnell’s “I don’t like secrets as a whole” are both arguments for disclosure. Neither is an argument for guessing about people who have chosen privacy.

If you are reading this page because you are weighing one of these medications for yourself, the most useful entries are not the success stories. They are Corden and Burruss, for whom it did nothing; Osbourne, who lost more than she wanted; Bader, whose eating got harder afterward; and Oprah, Barkley and Fierstein, all of whom regained weight after stopping. Whether any of this applies to you is a question for a healthcare provider who knows your medical history, not for a celebrity roundup.

Sources

1. TODAY, “32 Celebrities Who’ve Opened Up About Taking Ozempic or Weight-Loss Drugs” (updated April 2, 2026) — https://www.today.com/health/celebrities-on-ozempic-rcna129740
2. People, “Oprah Reveals She Stopped Using GLP-1s for 12 Months” (December 31, 2025) — https://people.com/oprah-reveals-she-stopped-using-glp1s-for-12-months-and-shares-exactly-what-happened-exclusive-11877163
3. Elon Musk on X, “And Wegovy” (October 1, 2022) — https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1576367983051489281?lang=en
4. Axios, “Elon Musk dubs himself ‘Ozempic Santa’ as weight-loss drugs go mainstream” (December 26, 2024) — https://www.axios.com/2024/12/26/elon-musk-ozempic-mounjaro-weight-loss
5. PR Newswire / Ro, “Serena Williams Joins Ro as GLP-1 Celebrity Ambassador” (August 21, 2025) — https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/serena-williams-joins-ro-as-glp-1-celebrity-ambassador-302535068.html
6. People, “Whoopi Goldberg Reveals She Used Weight Loss Medication Mounjaro” (March 19, 2024) — https://people.com/whoopi-goldberg-used-weight-loss-medication-mounjaro-after-hitting-300-lbs-8611145
7. NBC News, “Kelly Clarkson sets record straight on Ozempic rumors” (May 15, 2024) — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kelly-clarkson-sets-record-straight-ozempic-rumors-says-started-medica-rcna152128
8. Everyday Health, “17 Celebrities Who’ve Taken GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs” (August 11, 2026) — https://www.everydayhealth.com/weight/13-celebrities-who-have-spoken-out-about-taking-glp-1s
9. People, “Stars Who’ve Spoken About GLP-1 Drugs - and What They’ve Said” (August 11, 2026) — https://people.com/celebrities-ozempic-wegovy-what-theyve-said-12050794
10. Women’s Health, “Sharon Osbourne Says She Lost ‘Too Much’ Weight On Ozempic” (August 29, 2024) — https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a46408636/sharon-osbourne-weight-loss/
11. PR Newswire / Ro, “Charles Barkley Partners With Ro as GLP-1 Celebrity Ambassador” (April 29, 2025) — https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/charles-barkley-partners-with-ro-as-glp-1-celebrity-ambassador-302441276.html
12. People, “Lizzo Admits She’s Tried Ozempic for Weight Loss” (June 20, 2025) — https://people.com/lizzo-tried-ozempic-for-weight-loss-reveals-what-really-worked-for-her-11758171
13. TODAY, “Lizzo Responds to Weight Loss Backlash: Women ‘Should Be Allowed to Change’” (November 24, 2025) — https://www.today.com/health/mind-body/lizzo-essay-backlash-weight-loss-body-positive-rcna245605
14. Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, “New study examines stigma toward women who lose weight using GLP-1 medications” (April 10, 2026) — https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/news-release/new-study-examines-stigma-toward-women-who-lose-weight-using-glp-1-medications
15. The Flow Space, “16 Celebrities Who’ve Shared Their Experiences With GLP-1 Drugs” (May 19, 2026) — https://www.theflowspace.com/lists/celebrities-share-glp1-drug-ozempic-wegovy-mounjaro-experiences
16. Teen Vogue, “How to Talk About Ariana Grande in the Ozempic Era” (August 4, 2026) — https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-talk-about-ariana-grande-in-the-ozempic-era-op-ed
17. World Anti-Doping Agency, “The 2026 Monitoring Program” and “2026 Prohibited List” (published September 2025, effective January 1, 2026) — https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/2025-09/2026_list_monitoring_program_en_final_clean_september_2025.pdf
18. MedPage Today, “Use of GLP-1 Drugs Under Scrutiny at Winter Olympics” (February 6, 2026) — https://www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/cultureclinic/119770