Jamie-Lynn Sigler admits she feels “invigorated” by the popularity of the drug Ozempic, which is intended for type 2 diabetes but is widely used off-label for weight loss.
In a new episode of MeSy, Sigler’s podcast with Christina Applegate, the actress said the ubiquity of drugs has almost derailed the body positivity movement.
“I’m mad at myself for admitting it, and I’d like to understand why I’m a little upset about all the Ozempica stuff. It’s upsetting me. I wish I didn’t care,” Sigler, 42, told Applegate. The reason for her upset is that “it felt like we were on the road to entrenching body positivity, every shape, size and color, and now everyone looks the same.”
Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler photographed for PEOPLE in March 2024.
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Sigler, who along with Applegate shared her past experiences with eating disorders in the same episode, said she has friends who have been helped by the drug — friends who she’s seen “struggle with their weight for a very, very, very long time. I’ve seen that it gave them a lot and I’m so happy for them.”
But, The Soprano family the actress said she knows other people who take it who simply don’t need it: “I’ve also seen my friends who were beautiful and healthy and perfect abuse it, and it upsets me.”
Applegate, who has bonded with Sigler over the fact that they both live with multiple sclerosis, agreed, saying, “People, you know, disappear,” before jokingly adding this cautionary note: “For the women listening to you, the skinnier the face is , you look older, it’s not bad to look old!…It’s nice to get old.”
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Podcast by Christine Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, MeSsy.
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The Dead to me actress, who said she gained 45 kg. after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, she still struggles with the changes to her own body caused by the disease: “I don’t look in mirrors. I wrote all my mirrors in the bathroom so I don’t look in them…because I’ll like to fall on the ground and to cry.”
But Applegate, who said she struggled with anorexia in her teenage years Married with children sometimes living on “five almonds a day,” she said she doesn’t have unrealistic expectations for her body — she just wants to fit into her old clothes. “I don’t need to be skinny,” she said.
“I don’t work. I have a closet full of clothes I can’t wear, and I have no money. I don’t want to spend money on new clothes. I’d just like to wear the ones I already own.”
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