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TV presenter Vanessa Feltz has admitted that she would not have had gastric bypass surgery if she had known the weight loss drug Ozempic would be invented.
Ozempic has generated a lot of buzz since it was approved for medical use in the United States in 2017, becoming popular among celebrities looking to lose weight.
But Felts wasn’t taking Ozempic and was working to solve her weight problems before the drug became mainstream.
The 62-year-old TV personality had a colleague’s gastric band fitted in 2010 instead. this morning Presenter Fern Britton before undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 2019.
If you talk to me now, timesFelts said he was disappointed to have missed out on the Ozempic craze, saying if he had known it would be invented, he “would not have had the surgery.”
Candidly, she added: Unfortunately, I got a little ahead of myself with that, and it’s very embarrassing. ”
Felts went on to call Ozempic “amazing” and said, “Everyone [in the public eye] No matter what they say, people who used to be fat and are not fat now use it. ”
“We don’t know the long-term effects, but who cares? At least you’re thinner,” the LBC radio presenter said.
This comes after the broadcaster shared a video from his hospital bed in which he explained that he was playing with his grandchildren on Sunday, September 15, when he “fell onto his back in agony”.
Felts said the cause of the “pain worse than childbirth” was a “large kidney stone” discovered after the scan. The decision was quickly made to remove the kidney stone, which doctors said was 5 millimeters long.
Hundreds of doctors and experts have called on Health Secretary Wes Streeting to consider the impact of weight loss drugs on NHS services after the drug caused a “tsunami” of demand.
The Obesity Health Alliance has warned that NHS specialist weight management services will not be able to meet the increased demand with 4.1 million patients eligible for jabs such as Wegovy.
The warning comes as the government announced a £279m investment in the UK’s life sciences sector to test weight loss jabs and assess their impact on unemployment, Mr Streeting said. It comes after it said weight loss jabs could be given to people who are unemployed due to the obesity problem.
