Chrissy Teigen opened up about her use of GLP-1 medications on the latest episode of her “Self-Conscious with Chrissy Teigen” podcast. Speaking with her guest, British writer and journalist Johann Hari, the mother of four explained the reason why she was an early adopter of Ozempic and how it helped her through a difficult time.
In 2020, Teigen had been pregnant with her third child, a son named Jack, but lost the baby in her second trimester due to pregnancy complications. Though she initially said that she had experienced a miscarriage, the 39-year-old later clarified that she had undergone a life-saving abortion.
“I had two babies and then I lost a baby [at] a little over 20 weeks. And then my body was completely stuck,” Teigen told Hari. “It was like in shock, almost. You’re not carrying a baby anymore, I have all this weight on me.”
“Because as I said, I gained so much pregnant. I gained 70 pounds? I really let myself indulge when I was pregnant,” she continued. “So, when I had lost that baby at 20 weeks, I had probably gained an extra 40 pounds that I wasn’t comfortable with.”
Teigen said that at first, it took her awhile to see results. “I had tried it for maybe like a year or so, noticed no results for three, four months. Zero. Not a pound lost,” she explained.
“And then all of a sudden, I was finally able to lose the weight that was so reminding me of the baby that I had lost,” the former model recalled. “So I felt mentally better, because I wasn’t constantly in like this deep depression of seeing this pregnant belly with no baby in it.”
Yet, Teigen also said she felt conflicted taking the drug because of the complete lack of appetite it caused.
“It was frustrating for me because I know that, logically, you need food to have energy,” she said. “And a bit of it felt like force-feeding sometimes just so I could go about my day and go about my job. And that, for me, is almost torturous, not being hungry at all and consuming food.”
“I f–king hate that. I love being hungry. I love craving food. I love desiring food,” Teigen reasoned. “I get so excited to make it, to try it, to taste every part of it … So, until I got that right dosage, it took a while before I would even get feelings of hunger.”
“I would take the shot, it would be three days of pushing myself to eat food, and then it would wear off a bit, and then I could have a few bites, maybe day four, day five, more food, day six, more food, and then the shot again,” she added. “I felt bad about it because it’s not bad to be hungry, though.”
Eventually, she was able to get the right dosage down and find a balance. But, as is the case with most patients taking a GLP-1 medication, often it can take trial and error before finding a medication or dose that works for you.
