Rosie O’Donnell says Mounjaro 'saved' her life in heartbreaking admission
Rosie O'Donnell said that the weight loss drug Mounjaro 'saved my life', and has asked if she can do adverts for it where she gets it at a discounted price.
The 64-year-old says it's a 'miracle drug' as she told People she'd 'had trouble with my weight my whole life' and was glad to be taking Mounjaro, which she'd started after being diagnosed with type-2 diabetes three years ago.
Since then she's lost around 60lbs, saying: “I was stunned how it quieted the food noise.
"I know some people are ashamed to talk about it but I wanted to share how it helped me and I don’t like secrets as a whole."
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O'Donnell said that when she was 10 and it was 1973 her mum died, and afterwards 'all of us children gained weight'.
She said: “My father would give us a one hundred dollar bill and we would go to Foodtown to do the food shopping. Now if you’re 11-years-old and you’re shopping for a family of five, there’s nothing nutritious about it.
"It was Entenmann’s and Cap’n Crunch and we would always say, ‘Subtotal please,’ and when it got near one hundred, we’d put back the chicken and the hamburger meat.
"Everyone got heavy. Everyone was in such grief and trauma.”
Now she says that 'Mounjaro saved my life' as it helped her on her weight loss journey.
"I’ve lost a pound or two a month for three years. I really wish I could do commercials for Mounjaro and they would drop the price instead of paying me.
"Because when I see people struggling with obesity, I want to say I know the shame that we carry and the humiliation that is dealt to people who are overweight."
O'Donnell explained that when she was performing her first concern wasn't whether her set and material were good, it was 'did I look fat'.
"People were saying ‘You were so good,’ and I’d go, ‘How did I look in that blazer?’ I wasn’t even heavy then," she recounted.
Thanks to her weight loss she now feels 'much healthier and more powerful in my physicality'.
She also spoke about getting a facelift, having said she 'used to feel very strongly about facelifts' as she'd developed a 'moral' opposition to them and thought she was 'head of all women who would never' get one.
However, her weight loss from Mounjaro resulted in some 'gravity' on her face and she thought she looked like she was 'melting with intention'.
Initially she tried saying her face was 'natural' and 'earned', then eventually she said she reached 'a point where acceptance starts to feel like lying'.
Joe Harker