Nothing can scare Jennifer Fessler away from utilizing Ozempic — even an impacted bowel.
Throughout Monday’s episode of her “Two Jersey Js” podcast with Jackie Goldschneider, the “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” newcomer revealed she handled a moderately uncomfortable aspect impact after taking the celebrity-loved weight reduction drug.
“I’ve been on, and I’m not going to name it Ozempic — that’s been the umbrella title. However I’ve been on semaglutide for over a 12 months now, and I’ve misplaced perhaps 22 kilos,” Fessler, 55, mentioned through the podcast. (Notably, semaglutide is the lively ingredient in medication like Ozempic.)
Regardless of admitting to being “a raging hypochondriac,” Fessler says in relation to issues involving her “bodily look” her anxiousness goes “out the window.”
“I’m not afraid of Ozempic and I’ll inform you I’ve had an expertise that was not good — and I’m fairly constructive it was in regards to the semaglutide — the place I needed to go to the hospital for an impacted bowel … and I’m nonetheless not nervous about it.”
Fessler defined that one of many “uncomfortable side effects” of the drug may be “constipation,” which she handled for some time however determined to brush off.
“I used to be consuming no water, consuming no greens as a result of one thing that occurs, a brand new expertise for me, is with the ability to eat what I need even when it’s not probably the most wholesome selections and nonetheless drop some weight,” she defined. “So perhaps for the primary time in my life, I’m shedding weight on pizza and bagels and ice cream.
“Having mentioned that, I observed there was constipation, I didn’t do something about it. I wasn’t taking Miralax, that you just take each morning, or any type of stool softener,” she mentioned. “I hadn’t gone in every week, then it was every week and a half.”
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Nevertheless, she stopped her story mid-way by way of to confess that she was “in charge” for “ignoring” the indicators and has since modified her methods.
“I haven’t had an issue since,” she mentioned.
When Goldschneider introduced up that “muscle loss” was one other recognized aspect impact, Fessler revealed that she did lose some muscle and began going to the physician “each month” to get it checked.
“Bodily, I really feel lots higher in garments,” Fessler mentioned. “After I’m not in garments I look 90 as a result of I’ve gone up and down my greater than 20 kilos in my life … so there’s quite a lot of pores and skin that exists now while you lose muscle and fats.”
“Once more, I’ve to take duty for that within the sense that, you understand, you don’t placed on muscle while you simply lay horizontal in your mattress consuming chips. It doesn’t work like that,” she continued, noting that she lately employed a private coach.
Though Fessler spoke candidly about her resolution to go on the burden loss drug, Goldschneider voiced her disdain for the medicine, which she claims “greater than half” of the “RHONJ” forged is at the moment on.
“I’m an outspoken advocate for consuming dysfunction restoration and a really sturdy opponent of semaglutides for shedding these final 10 kilos,” she defined.
“I believe it’s a really harmful pattern however out of respect for one another and our friendship, we’ve by no means mentioned it,” she continued.
Fessler, who additionally lately bought a facelift and nostril job, first hinted that she was taking the favored drug in March whereas on “Watch What Occurs Reside with Andy Cohen.”
In the course of the taping, the fact TV star admitted that she misplaced “quite a lot of weight” by taking “peptides” — however performed coy when requested instantly if she was on Ozempic.
“You mentioned it, I didn’t. However … no matter works, right here I’m,” she joked.
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