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Chrissy Teigen Reveals Her Ozempic Journey
Chrissy Teigen confirmed that she has been taking Ozempic for several years and is of the opinion that the “miracle drug” was the one which brought her back from a “deep depression.”
On her Self-Conscious podcast instalment that aired on Thursday, the 39-year-old model divulged that she had been taking semaglutide for the purpose of weight loss after the tragic death of her son Jack, and that the duration of her usage was about a year. Initially, she recalled “not feeling any changes for three, four months,” but later the therapy got her off the pregnancy heavy and her return to the former self.
Coping With Grief and Side Effects
Teigen who had to say goodbye to her son Jack in September 2020 shared that Ozempic took the edge off of her sorrow to a certain extent, therefore being able to put aside what she called “this deep depression of seeing this pregnant belly with no baby in it.”
After that, the judge from Bring the Funny confessed that the weight had “peeled off” but she also referred to a condition she termed “Ozempic blindness”.
“You get to a point where the weight that you have lost is so significant that you do not realize that you have lost too much,” she elaborated.
Struggles as a Food Lover
Teigen confessed that the drug for Type II diabetes was quite hard for her to take, referring it to as “frustrating” and “almost torturous” because she was such a food lover.
“Not feeling hungry at all, for me, I f—ing hate that,” she quipped. “I love being hungry. I love eating food. I love wanting food.”
The Chrissy’s Court star also made a joke about how much she loved eating, stating that her husband, John Legend, prepares a “sleep sandwich” for her every night — which she gladly eats at around 2 a.m. when she can’t sleep.
Finding Balance With Ozempic
Teigen confessed that to her it was a process to discover the “right dosage” and while on Ozempic she still wanted to get back to eating.
“I would take the injection. For three days, I would make myself eat. [Then] it would be less strong. Day four, day five, more food. Day six, the injection again,” she reminisced.
She said that at the beginning she felt guilty and thought “it is not bad to be hungry.” Shortly after, the former Lip Sync Battle co-host found a way to be at peace with the medication.
Teigen said that the medication was like a battery reset for her mindset after being on “such a bad path with the way [she] thought about good food,” so she could stop the strict, “insane” dieting that she had.
Confronting Shame and Past Struggles
Chrissy Teigen stated that she felt “freed from that imprisonment” after changing her perspective with food. Nevertheless, she acknowledged holding shame — in part, from the fact that she was “able to actually afford” Ozempic, and in part, from the feeling of not being “truthful” with fans who purchased her cookbooks.
During the episode — a chat with The Magic Pill author Johann Hari — Teigen also agreed to talk about her complicated relationship with food in her past.
“I ate disgusting food and vomited as a model,” she said. “I didn’t see it as bulimia. I overate to the point I got sick [for four years]. I was not making myself throw up.”
Keeping Some Details Private
A mother who has four children, Lune 9 years, Miles 7 years, and twins Esti and Wren 2 years, and is into cookbook authoring, didn’t reveal when or why she stopped using Ozempic.
Only for this time and context, Teigen revealed that she was on the medication. However, in the past, she denied it with laughter. In a video published on Instagram in September 2024, she sarcastically commented on the “mean” remarks questioning if she was on “Ozempic much?”