When you’re on TV every week, it’s hard to hide when you’ve lost weight, especially in a short period of time. Luckily, Whoopi Goldberg isn’t one of the celebrities who’s lost weight and keeping her methods to herself: the comedian has proudly shared that she used Mounjaro, a weight loss medication, to help her drop 50 pounds. Keep reading for more information.
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Whoopi Goldberg Loses 50 Pounds
In 2022, Goldberg was filming and producing Till, a film about the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, when she noticed she had gained a lot of weight. It was under the circumstances of a health scare that she didn't notice the medicine she was taking had weight gain as one of the side effects, and it wasn't until she had recovered from having pneumonia in both lungs and sepsis that she realized she had maybe gained too much weight.
"I just always felt like me," she explained at the time. "And then I saw me and I thought, 'Oh! That's a lot of me!'" However, The View cohost didn't waste any time potentially experiencing adverse affects of her weight gain. "One of the things that's helped me dropped the weight was the Mounjaro. That's what I used," she revealed candidly.
Whoopi Goldberg Praises Weight Loss Medication
On a recent episode of The View, Whoopi and her guest, Jim Gaffigan got into a discussion praising the usage of weight loss medications. "I have gotten skinny," Jim admitted. "And it's none of my own willpower. It's a shot in the stomach. That works wonders. I don't know why people are afraid to admit it."
Goldberg agreed, adding that she tells "everybody" that she takes Mounjaro. This isn't the first time she's sung the praises of weight loss medication. She appeared on an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show back in May and called the shot "wonderful," adding that she had lost the weight of "almost two people" since taking the medication. "I say it all the time. Because you can't go from close to 300 pounds without someone saying, 'OK, what happened?' 'Cause you know I didn't go to the gym!"
