Katie Price breaks silence over ‘weight loss jabs’ after fans fear for skinny star
KATIE Price has opened up about her weight loss and insists she’s at her “natural weight” after gaining it on IVF.
The star has been bombarded with messages from fans fearing for her new, slimmer figure in her latest Instagram posts.
Some believed Katie had begun taking popular Ozempic injections or an equivalent in order to shed weight.
However, the star has said she has simply ‘shrunk back’ to her natural size after gaining weight on IVF and being inactive after breaking her foot in 2020.
Appearing on Disruptors podcast, host Rob Moore grilled her on her weight loss, and she denied taking so-called ‘skinny jabs’ in order to get down to a smaller size.
“So people have said I’ve lost loads of weight,” she said, to which Rob notes she has, but she explained: “Now there’s a programme coming out in January, my IVF journey.
“Anyone you know who’s had IVF, you put on weight. I had three IVFs the past 15 months. They all failed,” she started.
“It started from when I broke my feet. They said I’d never run again. So I couldn’t run, wasn’t exercising, couldn’t ride my horses, so basically, I was in a wheelchair for 10 months.
“They said I couldn’t walk again, this all happened around COVID time, so obviously you’re going to put on weight because you’re not moving about.”
“Then I had to learn to walk again, but slowly, I still can’t run now, because I’ve got screws in my feet,” Katie continued. “Then I did IVF, pumped all my stuff, and it takes ages for it to get back out your body.
“But I say to people, if you look at old pictures of me, even after I’ve had babies, I just shrink back. I’ve always been tiny, and I think because the past sort of three years, I’ve been bigger, but they’re the reasons why, right?
“Now I’ve gone like back, now the IVF that’s all come out, and I’m more active because I could do more because of my feet, and I’m horse riding again, then naturally, i’m going back athletic again.”
When Rob circled back to ask her to confirm never taking Ozempic, she confirmed: “No, but Harvey’s going on that. So I’ve had to sit there with the doctors.”
“I think when it comes to things like that, I think because of Harvey and all the medication and that he has, I think people have to be really careful with things like that,” she said.
“I don’t need the Ozempic. I never have done. I’ve always been skinny. Look at old pictures of me. Always been tiny.”
Ozempic - an expert's view
Dr Mitra Dutt, a GP from Lloyds Pharmacy Online Doctor, says: “Mounjaro works by activating two hormonal receptors (GIP and GLP-1), which enhance insulin production, improve insulin sensitivity and work to decrease food intake.”
Saxenda, which contains the active ingredient liraglutide, is another weight loss jab that’s been available on the NHS since 2020.
While Mounjaro is hailed as the “King Kong” fat jabs, a new weight loss drug dubbed “Godzilla” looks set to displace it.
Containing the active ingredient retatrutide, slimmers trying the drug lost up to 29 per cent of their weight in less than a year.
By comparison, trial results showed semaglutide, known as Ozempic, could lead to 15 per cent weight loss and tirzepatide, aka Mounjaro, to 23 per cent.
Retatrutide acts on three different receptors in the brain, “turbocharging” calorie burning while dulling hunger pangs.
Existing weight-loss jabs only suppress appetite, whereas the new treatment also speeds up metabolism.
The new drug is still undergoing clinical trials so it’s not yet known if it will be made available on the NHS.