Brianna LaPaglia is sharing her uncut opinion.
“No tea, no shade, no hate, just some field research,” the influencer, 26, began in a Tuesday TikTok video. “Every single bitch I know is on Ozempic. People that do not need Ozempic. It’s like if I did Ozempic. Could I lose a couple? Surely. Do I need Ozempic? No!”
LaPaglia had an urgent warning for those who use the drug without cause: “You’re gonna die. You’re all gonna die.”
Ozempic is a GLP-1 injection used to treat Type 2 diabetes. However, it is widely prescribed for weight loss.
Using a GLP-1 when not needed could have serious side effects, including gallbladder and kidney problems, per Baptist Health.
LaPaglia has previously opened up about her own struggles with disordered eating.
“I had an anxiety-induced eating disorder, where I was always nauseous,” she expressed while on the “Real Pod” podcast in February. “Anytime I ate something, I would throw up.”
“I would just avoid food at all costs because I knew that it would make me sick, or I was just so nauseous all the time [because of] my anxiety that I couldn’t eat,” the social media star added.
LaPaglia hit “rock bottom” in 2023, when she was her lowest weight to date.
“People were horrified. Every time I went home, my family was, like, ‘Oh, my gosh,’” LaPaglia recounted. “I was anemic from it, I had bruises all over me, and it was really, really hard when you’re in it for so long. Your body just gets used to it, and when I finally came out of all that anxiety or I was able to look at myself in the mirror and saw the way I looked, [it] was just so unhealthy.”
Despite trying to create a “healthy relationship” with food, LaPaglia did not make the connection between her eating habits and anxiety.
“It really did, without me even knowing, create an eating disorder that I didn’t know how to navigate [or] what to do with it,” she said.
After gaining 25 pounds back, LaPaglia was at what she considered a “healthy weight.”
“It didn’t happen overnight,” she continued. “Once I realized, I was like, ‘Holy s–t, this is what’s happening to you.’ It took me four or five months to get back to a healthy weight or get back in a healthy mindset.”
“It was a f–king process,” LaPaglia admitted. “Slowly but surely, obviously with anything that you do over time, it got better.”
Meanwhile, despite the TikToker steering clear from Ozempic, many A-listers have been open about their use of the weight-loss medication.
