Kelly Clarkson has finally admitted she used a weight reduction drug to slim down after previously insisting her dramatic transformation was the results of ‘walking’ more and cutting back on carbs.
The Kelly Clarkson Show host, 42, made the confession while interviewing Whoopi Goldberg, 68, onto her show on Monday.
The Fort Worth, Texas-born star – who’s been at the middle of speculation for months about her rapid weight reduction – said that doctors prescribed her with a weight reduction medication after a blood test.
She insisted she didn’t use Ozempic, but didn’t reveal which drug she used.
‘Mine is a distinct one than people assume, but I ended up having to try this too,’ the A Moment Like This songstress told the EGOT winner. ‘Everybody thinks it’s Ozempic, it is not – it’s something else.’
Kelly Clarkson finally got here clean about using a weight reduction drug on her chat show on Monday
She made the confession while interviewing Whoopi Goldberg, who has also used weight reduction medication
Kelly is pictured left in February this 12 months and right, in March 2022
Clarkson, who shares daughter River Rose, nine, and son Remington Alexander, seven, with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, 47, said on Monday that her physician insisted she take the medication after repeated efforts to get her on it.
‘My doctor chased me for like two years,’ she said. ‘And I used to be like, “No, I’m afraid of it. I have already got thyroid problems, I used to be afraid.”
The My Life Would Suck Without You artist said the medication she takes is ‘something that aids in helping break down the sugar,’ as her ‘body doesn’t do it right.’
Clarkson, presumably speaking about how she didn’t notice that she had progressively gained weight, said that she was shocked when watching herself on camera at one point.
Clarkson added, ‘Seeing yourself, I didn’t see it … hastily, I used to be like “Who the f*** is that?”‘
Goldberg said a lady who saw her within the 2022 film Till told her she thought she was wearing a ‘fat suit,’ which she was ‘indignant’ about.
Clarkson reiterated that she had not been taking note of her weight for a while.
‘It’s a weird thing … I never saw that, I used to be never insecure about it – I just didn’t see that,’ Clarkson said, adding that at her heaviest, she weighed 203 kilos standing at 5-foot-3.
Clarkson said her physician insisted she take an unnamed medication after repeated efforts to get her on it
Clarkson said of her medication regimen, ‘Everybody thinks it’s Ozempic, it is not – it’s something else’
Goldberg and Clarkson spoke about their respective weight reduction journeys on Monday
Clarkson reiterated that she had not been taking note of her weight for a while
Goldberg led off the looks acknowledging she has shed kilos, and had noticed Clarkson had as well
Goldberg said she had lost as much as ‘two people’ and said she had been taking a ‘wonderful shot that works for folk who need some help’
Goldberg said a lady who saw her within the film Till told her she thought she was wearing a ‘fat suit’ within the film, which she was ‘indignant’ about. Pictured on the NYC Till premiere in 2022
Clarkson told Goldberg, ‘You look wonderful, and I hope you’re feeling wonderful’
Clarkson said that at her heaviest, she weighed 203 kilos standing at 5-foot-3
Clarkson said she was not miserable or depressed on the time, though in hindsight, she felt she looked like she was ‘about to die of a heart attack.’
Goldberg led off the looks acknowledging she has shed kilos, and had noticed Clarkson had as well.
Goldberg said she had lost as much as ‘two people’ and said she had been taking a ‘wonderful shot that works for folk who need some help.’
Goldberg said that she had reached 300 kilos at her heaviest.
Clarkson told Goldberg, ‘You look wonderful, and I hope you’re feeling wonderful.’
The admission from Clarkson comes lower than five months after she told People in January that her weight reduction was partially a results of an enhanced focused on easy exercise and a healthy weight loss plan.
‘Walking in town is sort of the workout,’ the entertainer, who relocated her show from Los Angeles to New York City last 12 months, told the magazine.
She told the magazine that she had been eating ‘a healthy mix’ of food while occasionally splurging.
The singer beamed as she took the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Monday
Clarkson’s past musical hits include the singles Since U Been Gone, Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) and My Life Would Suck Without You
Clarkson reiterated that she had not been taking note of her weight for a while
‘The other night I had a frozen yogurt with my daughter, and it was magical,’ she said.
Clarkson told the publication, ‘I dropped weight because I’ve been listening to my doctor – a pair [of] years I didn’t.
‘And 90 percent of the time I’m really good at it because a protein weight loss plan is nice for me anyway. I’m a Texas girl, so I like meat – sorry, vegetarians on the planet!’