Marilyn's Photos - Mar 8 2026 - Celebrity Ozempic News

 

I am catching up.  Today, it is adding a new term to my News Subject Index.  There is a category of news stories I haven’t looked at much - yes it is Celebrity Ozempic News.  I should have realized with the statistics saying how many millions are on Ozempic - 3 million in Canada - and how many more will be when it is covered by provincial health plans.   There’s more things to cure besides weight loss and diabetes for the GLP-1 drug. So Oprah Winfrey made the Ozempic headlines at the Paris Fashion Show this last week. There have been photos and stories on her Ozempic use since 2023.  This week she looked particularly wonderful and the press paid attention with a good-news story.   Such an important celebrity - likely the most influential, wealthy, and impactful media figures in the world.  The richest Black woman in the world. So that means a lot of experts and medical professionals are there to be quoted about Oprah’s weigh-loss. The scientists get their names in the news with a quote or two.  Media and public commentators weigh in with comments on “too thin” or “her honesty.” Most celebrities don’t seem to have opinioned on Oprah’s status - they “disclose” their own use of Ozempic.   Joan Collins, over ninety, in comparison, is making her own news on body image.  She has criticism on Ozempic and its “effects.”  But mostly, she’s had a perfect figure her entire life - and there are dozens of articles and pictures of her at 92 with headlines like “stuns in white swim suit.”  She’s been posing in swim suits for as long as she’s been a celebrity so you can doom scroll pictures of her in swim suits.  How many?  AI always gets hedgy over this - it doesn’t want to do any real work of counting.  It says there are hundreds of professionally archived images, so multiple thousands is likely.  Do you notice that this isn’t a 92 year-old face in this picture?  I don’t know what is she actually wearing. She seems to be the cover-up Queen.  When it comes to Ozempic, what I notice in these articles is the language used.  There are such phrases as “admission to using” and  “admitted”, “disclosed”, and “confessed.”  Doesn’t this reveal our societal perspective around weight and weight-loss.   So here we are - well into the 21st century and it turns out that weight-loss drugs and artificial intelligence are the transformers of our lives. Isn’t this such a hopeful image - Sweet Cicely in the early morning garden.

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