Lottie Moss has opened up about her terrifying hospital admission after taking an Ozempic overdose – revealing that she ‘felt like I used to be dying’.
The 27-year-old influencer and youthful half-sister of supermodel Kate Moss was hospitalised in 2024 after taking a excessive dose of the injectable semaglutide remedy (via The Normal).
Ozempic, and comparable GLP and GLP-1 medication similar to Mounjaro and Wegovy, have turn into the drug of alternative for anybody trying to shed weight because of its urge for food suppressant results.
Initially created to help with the administration of sort 2 diabetes, the remedy works by decreasing blood sugar ranges and rising the physique’s insulin ranges.
In keeping with steerage from the NHS, Ozempic is just not at the moment accepted for weight-loss within the UK, nonetheless drugs Mounjaro and Wegovy are.
Throughout an episode of her Dream On podcast, Moss revealed that she determined to attempt utilizing Ozempic after feeling sad together with her weight.
“A couple of months in the past, I used to be not feeling completely satisfied about my weight, I had a good friend, and she or he might get it for me,” she defined final September. “It was under board, from a physician, however it wasn’t such as you go into a physician’s workplace and he prescribes it for you.
“On the finish of the day it’s a remedy, it’s harmful and actually meant for weight lack of folks of a really giant measurement.”
The previous mannequin additionally addressed her determination on Abbey Clancy’s Exhibit A podcast, admitting that she’d felt pressured by the quantity of celebrities utilizing the drug (via The Solar).
“I feel I in myself simply felt like I did not really feel pleased with my physique,” she defined.
Showing on Olivia Attwood’s ITV collection The Value of Perfection, Moss shared precisely what occurred when she was hospitalised, revealing that she’d suffered from a seizure.
“I might misplaced like, six or seven kg, like, it was so dramatic. Coming off actually shortly, and also you nearly do not even discover it, since you’re so sick and, like, drained on a regular basis,” she defined.
“That is why they rushed me to the hospital. Within the ER, I began to really feel one thing actually bizarre occur as quickly as I acquired on the mattress, I had the seizure, and so they have been holding me down. I used to be terrified.
“I do bear in mind it, I began to really feel, I actually felt like I used to be dying. And it sounds actually dramatic, however I’ve by no means had a seizure earlier than.”
Moss had beforehand admitted that she wasn’t utilizing the ‘appropriate dosage’ for her physique measurement, which means that she’d taken an excessive amount of of the drug.
She stated: “Once I was taking it, the quantity that I used to be taking was meant for people who find themselves 100 kilos and over and I am within the 50s vary. It is these small issues I want I might recognized earlier than taking it. However I took it, you inject it into your leg, and it was the worst determination I ever made.”
Regardless of the horrifying unwanted side effects, the content material creator admitted that she’d felt good about herself after being discharged from hospital and understands how the sensation might be ‘so addictive’.
Moss even admitted that she’d ‘thought’ about utilizing the injections once more, earlier than remembering it ‘didn’t work out for a cause’.
She stated on her podcast: “I might slightly die any day than take it once more. It made me really feel so nauseous.”
LADbible Group has approached Novo Nordisk for remark.
Olivia Attwood: The Value of Perfection is offered to stream Thursday (12 June) on ITVX.
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