Rebel Wilson Reveals She Tried Ozempic for Weight Loss: 'Those Drugs Can Be Good'

Rebel Wilson gets candid about her weight loss journey.

The Rebel Rising: A Memoir the author, 44, spoke about her brief experience with Ozempica in an interview for The Sunday Times released this weekend.

The Food and Drug Administration-approved type 2 diabetes drug that many celebrities have said they take is one that Wilson said she took for maintenance after losing weight.

“Someone like me might have an endless appetite for sweets, so I think these drugs can be good,” Pitch Perfect the alum said before noting that she was no longer taking Ozempic.

Rebel Wilson at the premiere of “Miss Saigon” at the Sydney Opera House in August 2023.

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Rebel Wilson reveals the ’emotional warfare’ she felt as a ‘proud fat woman’ who was ‘ashamed of her diet’ (Exclusive)

The actress, who previously told PEOPLE about losing 80 pounds. after the “year of health” in 2020, he said Time this week that she decided to lose weight when her fertility doctor encouraged her to do so to give her a better chance of IVF.

“Basically nobody wanted me to lose weight except my mom,” she said. “People thought I’d lose my career edge by playing a fat funny character and they wanted me to keep doing it.”

Wilson said she then took long walks, followed a high-protein, low-sugar diet, discussed her emotional relationship with food with a doctor and later exercised on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. She also saw “positive reinforcement” from society, she told the newspaper.

“I strongly believe that young women should not try to obsess over looking like Victoria’s Secret models – they should just look like themselves. I know that my relationship with food is complicated,” Wilson told timesadding that she is happy with her current “still curvy and solid” weight.

Rebel Wilson at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2023.

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Wilson, who is releasing her memoir on April 2, also discussed her health journey in the latest issue of PEOPLE, where she further described the “emotional warfare” she endured over her weight.

“I think I’m a beacon of body positivity for a lot of people because I see people who are medically considered fat if you look at their weight, but I think they’re absolutely beautiful,” Wilson said. “I really think beauty comes in any shape and size so I really promote that.”

“People are like, ‘Well, how can you be so body positive and then hate yourself?’ But I didn’t hate myself, I just hated those shameful behaviors,” she added. “For example, eating a whole bunch of ice cream every night and then feeling bad about myself, pushing myself early in the morning and going to the gym for an hour and a half and running on that strips until sometimes my back hurts.”

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Wilson also described herself as an “emotional eater,” adding that she “would be hard on herself,” which took time to work on.

“I wonder, ‘How can I be a person who excels at so many things, and get two college degrees, and can make millions of dollars, and can start from nothing, and then create this great career, but I couldn’t lose weight.'” , Wilson asked. “I would always get mad about it and ask, ‘What’s wrong with me?'”

Now, Wilson details her weight loss in her new book, and how it wasn’t about “some magic pill, or some sick special diet, or exercise regimen, or anything.”

“It’s literally about dealing with your emotions in a healthier way and there’s no magic solution,” she said. “Maybe my story can inspire them to do the same and make a healthy change in their lives.”

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