Stephen Fry turned to Ozempic, a medication prescribed for adults with type 2 diabetes that “slows down the rate at which food leaves the stomach,” to lose weight. However, although the first results were “amazing”, he had to stop taking it because he vomited up to five times a day, according to the actor on the River Cafe Table 4 podcast.
This initiative came from his American doctor and the effects were almost immediate: “For the first week or so I thought, ‘This is amazing. Not only do I not want to eat, but I don’t want alcohol of any kind. This is going to be brilliant.’ “.
However, problems did not take long to appear. Shortly after, she began to feel unwell. “She literally threw up four or five times a day and was like, ‘I can’t do this.’ So that’s it,” she explains in her interview.
Fry thus recognizes that his sudden weight loss, up to five and a half kilos in just four months in 2019, was not only due to physical exercise and following a sensible diet, as he claimed at the time.
In fact, in August 2019, the actor justified his strategy to BBC Breakfast as follows: “I walk a lot and I think that helps my mood too. It’s not a guaranteed help for mental stress and anxiety or any something else, but it does help me and means I can listen to audiobooks as usual.
Ozempic works by suppressing appetite and prolongs the amount of time food stays in the stomach, leading to weight loss. However, the United Kingdom has banned it as a treatment for obesity due to high demand for the drug, intended for adults with type 2 diabetes.
