George Santos using Ozempic to lose stress-induced weight gain

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by Francesca Bacardi

Geo, oh, oh, Ozempic, he knows.

Expelled Congressman George Santos returns to Ozempic in hopes of losing 70 pounds. The New York native exclusively told Page Six that after losing more than 100 pounds with celebrity-favorite weight loss pills, the stress of the criminal charges took a toll and caused him to gain weight.

“Then everything else happened in my life and I went completely crazy. I was stressed out,” says Santos, 35. “I gained 40 pounds back. So yesterday I decided to go back.”

Last May, Prosecutors indict Santos He is accused of embezzling $50,000 in campaign funds to buy designer clothes and personal expenses, as well as misusing COVID-19 unemployment benefits and lying about being a billionaire on financial disclosure forms to Congress.

He maintains his innocence.

The ousted Republican politician wants to “educate” the public about the drug and its potential side effects, as there are “so many taboos” about it, and Santos said its side effects are “nearly zero.” ” he said he experienced it.

Santos, who is hoping to drop his weight from 270 pounds to 200 pounds, has been doing GTX workouts at a local gym to help him lose weight faster.

“Okay, I’m 6-foot-2. I don’t want to lose weight,” he says. “I’m too old to be good-looking anyway.”

Page Six broke the news in August 2023 that the reclining Long Island congressman could be heard touting his weight loss at a swanky party in Manhattan, and credited Ozempic for his lean figure.

“George said, ‘I lost 92 pounds in the last eight months at Ozempic,'” a source told Us at the time.

Before starting his first weight loss journey, Santos weighed 352 pounds and wore “size 55, 56 jackets,” he says.

“There was a moment when I thought, ‘Enough is enough.'”