Heather Gay Admits She Had ‘More Confidence’ Before Ozempic and Is Now No Longer Taking Weight-Loss Medication

Mar. 15, 2025

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Heather Gayadmitted that she had more confidence before turning to Ozempic for weight loss.

TheReal Housewives of Salt Lake Citystar, 50, recently spoke toABC News’Deborah Robertsand opened up about her body positivity journey after takingOzempic, an FDA-approved prescription medication for people with type 2 diabetes.

It’s one of the brand names for semaglutide — also known asWegovy— which works in the brain to impact satiety, and is the latest Hollywood weight loss trend.

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The Bravo star said everyone keeps telling her to change her intro on RHOSLC because she was “so much heavier then.”

“I look at those pictures of myself and those episodes and think, I love that girl,” she added. “That girl was braver and stronger and had more confidence being overweight than I did after taking medication.”

Gay noted that she’s no longer taking Ozempic for weight loss but she “will if I need to.” The reality star also addressed the cover of hernew memoir,Good Time Girl, admitting that her decision to pose with her shirt lifted is not her “celebrating” her body.

“I’ve apologized for my body my entire life… and I’d rather just have body neutrality,” she said. “I love myself heavy. I love myself now. It’s a journey and that changed the way I saw who I was.”

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Gay first revealed to PEOPLE that she was “on theOzempictrain” in November 2023.

“You lose five pounds, people are nicer to you,” she said at the time. “I don’t know why. It’s just the way the world works and that makes me sad for women. But happy that I’m down five.”

“I think that we put so much pressure on ourselves and it’s hard,” she told PEOPLE. “And I have three daughters that I love and I don’t want them to have my genetics or have to struggle with society’s standards of beauty. I just wish that there was a solution for all of us. But I’m feeling like I’m coming into my own a little bit and I think the glow up might be a little bit from that, too. But I’ll give credit to all the medical intervention. It’s my business.”

source: people.com