Woman who tried to conceive for eight years falls pregnant with Mounjaro baby
Warning: This article contains discussion of baby loss which some readers may find distressing.
A 41-year-old woman from the US discovered an unusual benefit of taking Mounjaro after she fell pregnant with her first child.
Kortney Jacobsen had almost given up on becoming a mother after suffering two pregnancy losses but has been left 'speechless' after enjoying an unexpected boost from her Mounjaro jabs.
The hairstylist from Florida had been told by doctors that losing weight could help her fall pregnant and after struggling with diets, she turned to the GLP-1 drug in January 2024, and she fell pregnant in February of this year.
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She said: "I never thought I would become a parent.
"It means so much, I can't even explain it. I'm speechless to be honest with you."
There have been a number of reports in recent years about the rise in 'Ozempic babies', which might well be the opposite of what some women might have been intending with the weight loss drugs, but can also help to change lives in circumstances where women have struggled to get pregnant.
Kortney and her husband Brian had been trying for a baby since 2018, two years after they were married in July 2016, but weighing 225lbs (102kg), Kortney felt that she needed to take drastic action to lose weight and boost her chances of having a baby.
She lost her first child after it emerged that it was an ectopic pregnancy, with Kortney forced to take medication to slow her immune system before the pregnancy became life-threatening.
Kortney then became pregnant again in October 2019 but were left heartbroken again when doctors gave her a devastating update.
She said: "The lady said 'there’s no heartbeat and you need to go to the emergency room, I am so sorry’.
"They said it was a missed miscarriage and the foetus had died two weeks prior, but I had no idea. It was devastating and it was tragic.
“I remember walking out of there saying to Brian, ‘I have a feeling that you're never going to want to try again’, cause it was hard on my husband too."
Although the losses were no fault of her own, she started to blame herself after years of comments about her weight and visited a fertility specialist, who suggested that she try following the Mediterranean diet.
She said: "I always knew what I looked like in the mirror.
“Being obese there was such a misconception I was sitting there eating food all day. It was the opposite.
“I wasn’t eating intentionally "I was blaming myself for the lost pregnancies.
"I would try things like Weight Watchers. The problem for me was my anxiety around food, when I messed up I would just revert back to my old ways and go to a drive-thru.
"It put a lot of stress on the marriage which lead to conversations of separating because we both wanted a child so bad. I wasn't being my best as a wife.
“It was really hard."
However, things would change drastically when she noticed several of the clients in her salon losing weight on GLP-1 medication, and she began paying for Mounjaro treatment, which soon left her 'feeling amazing' as she lost 100lbs and weighed in at 62kg.
She added: "I remember saying to myself, this is what it feels like to be normal, to not obsess over food."
On February, 6 2026, after dreaming her grandfather told her she was pregnant, she asked Brian to buy a test, and they were 'shocked' to discover that the test was positive.
Kortney immediately stopped taking the medication on her doctors' advice because there is limited research into its use during pregnancy.
She says her doctor told her: "I told you so," referring to the growing number of so-called ‘Ozempic babies’.
The couple are expecting a baby boy and plan to name him Beau 'because he's a beautiful surprise', and he is due to be delivered by planned caesarean section on October, 6 2026.
Sadky the pregnancy has been complicated by a fractured left femur, which has been a less positive impact from Kortney's rapid weight loss and subsequent pregnancy-related weight gain, and she has been left temporarily unable to walk.
She said: "It’s definitely taught me patience.
“You go through the pyramid of grief and denial, and then acceptance, and then you're like, okay, this isn't permanent."
James Moorhouse