Sharon Osbourne revealed she’s struggling to gain weight after coming off Ozempic and doctors ‘can’t figure out why.’

The 71-year-old star has been open about using the drug for weight loss. Ozempic is a prescription drug that’s used in people with type 2 diabetes. However, many people started using it as a quick weight-loss solution as the active ingredient, semaglutide, can help to regulate your appetite.

Sharon, who recently enjoyed a stint on Celebrity Big Brother, lost 42lbs but has since admitted she is desperate to put some weight on but can’t – despite having quit the medication. She recently said: “Everybody was doing it [taking Ozempic] and I’m like, ‘Well I’ll have some!’ And you lose weight. It does what it says on the syringe.”

The star went on to explain how she had gastric sleeve surgery but ‘found ways to eat around it’. At one point, she had two pints of ice cream a day. “I don’t know,” she said to Woman Magazine when asked why she can’t put on any weight after coming off the prescription drug. “The doctors can’t figure it out. But I think it’s just because I’m getting older and as you get older you lose weight anyway and shrink and shrivel off.”

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Sharon previously said she doesn’t regret using the drug but urged people to be cautious when using the injections. Speaking to the Loose Women panel, earlier this year, she said: “I don’t regret it. Everything with weight with me was, ‘I want it now.’ The injections that I was on worked, but it just seems that now I can’t put anything on really.”

“I lost 42lb – that’s 3st – but it was too much. Now, I weigh just over 7st. I need to put on 10lb, but however much I eat, I stay the same weight,” she said, insisting she has ‘learned her lesson’.

Ozempic is an injection to the stomach, thigh or arm that can lower blood sugar by helping the pancreas produce more insulin. Recently, the injection has also been prescribed as a weight loss method. Even now, the reality star said it’s difficult for her to feel hungry because Ozempic suppresses a person’s appetite.

And she admitted that her husband Ozzy Osbourne was seriously worried about her decision to take the drug and the effects it had. “He doesn’t like it,” she said during an appearance on Good Morning Britain. “And he’s scared. He thinks that something’s going to happen to me. (He thinks) ‘This is it. There’s nothing’s perfect. If you’ve got skinny, then something else is gonna happen.’”