Joan Rivers’ daughter says comedian would have loved Ozempic

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Joan Rivers’ daughter, Melissa Rivers, has revealed that the late comedian would have been a giant fan of Ozempic.

The 55-year-old TV host spoke candidly about her mom, who died in 2014 on the age of 81, throughout an interview with People, revealed on 17 January. According to Melissa, there are issues about at the moment’s world that her mom would have loved, together with medicine that have been used for weight reduction, resembling diabetes medicine Ozempic.

“Oh she would have thought Ozempic was the greatest thing since sliced bread,” Melissa mentioned. “Her two least favourite things were diet and exercise, so if she could find a way to avoid both? Awesome.”

Ozempic, which is often used to deal with sort 2 diabetes, is an injection to the abdomen, thigh or arm that’s meant to assist decrease blood sugar by serving to the pancreas produce extra insulin. Recently, the drug has elevated in recognition as a weight-loss technique. In addition, new GLP-1 medicine, like Wegovy and Mounjaro, have additionally been used to assist folks drop a few pounds.

Speaking to People, Melissa, who’s the one baby of Joan and Edgar Rosenberg, poked enjoyable in any respect the present vogue tendencies that her mom would not approve of.

“She would not have bought into athleisure and people wearing sweatpants everywhere,” Melissa mentioned. “She’d be like no, you still get dressed, you pull yourself together, you put on a little lip gloss and then you go out.”

According to the actor, her mom would have been thrilled about one necessary subject in at the moment’s world, including: “But she would have been very excited by body acceptance. That would have actually made her really happy.”

She additionally opened up concerning the issues she needs she might inform Joan, noting that she thinks “about her the most when something ridiculous happens”.

“So many of our phone calls began with: ‘Okay so, are you ready for this?’” she defined, earlier than describing how she hears her mom’s voice “way too much”. She additionally shared particular moments when she thinks about her conversations with the comedian.

“I especially think of her when I’m about to get upset, and have to stop and think: ‘What would she do in this particular situation?’ And I can hear her voice saying: ‘Oh Melissa, please just stop. Get over it!’” she recalled.

Melissa isn’t the primary superstar to talk out concerning the elevated recognition of weight reduction medicine. Last month, TV host Oprah Winfrey confessed that she used an unnamed weight reduction drug as a device to handle her weight. She additionally praised the medicine for permitting her to stay a more healthy life-style, amid career-spanning scrutiny over her weight.

“The fact that there’s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for. I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself,” she mentioned throughout an interview with People, revealed in December. “It was public sport to make fun of me for 25 years. I have been blamed and shamed, and I blamed and shamed myself.”

In August 2023, Sharon Osbourne additionally spoke candidly concerning the negative effects she confronted when utilizing Ozempic to assist her with weight reduction. During an look on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, the previous TV star revealed that whereas she was always nauseous throughout her first few weeks of taking the drug, her signs step by step improved. “For me, the first few weeks was f*****g s**t because you just throw up all the time. You feel so nauseous,” Osbourne mentioned. “After a couple of weeks it goes.”

She additionally specified that whereas she took the medicine for 4 months and was capable of lose 30 kilos, she was now not on Ozempic. However, based on Osbourne, she was having a tough time with starvation, as one of many results of the drug medicine is the discount of an individual’s urge for food.