dr Simon Ourian, a cosmetic dermatologist in Beverly Hills, warned
Ozempic patients struggle with sagging skin and ‘deflated’ buttocks from losing weight too quickly, Kim Kardashian’s doctor has revealed.
dr Simon Ourian, a cosmetic dermatologist in Beverly Hills, has dubbed the phenomenon “Ozempic Body.”
He said many patients are now getting fillers on their faces and buttocks to help resolve the unsightly drooping.
The medic told The Hollywood Reporter: “When you lose a lot of weight quickly, your skin goes slack, everything from your face to your buttocks is drained.
“If you keep yours [new] Weight for a year or two often tightens your skin on its own.
‘But if you want instant results [because] You’re in front of the camera, there’s ultrasound and radio frequency treatments, fillers, or you can go as far as having surgery.’
April Peter, from rural Pennsylvania, has detailed her weight loss journey with the drug Mounjaro on social media. She lost about 70 pounds in six and a half months, leaving a lot of skin around her stomach, arms and legs. Mounjaro acts on the same receptors as Ozempic, but also targets a different group
Kim Kardashian’s doctor (pictured above in Los Angeles, California on April 14) warned about Ozempic. There is no evidence Kim used the drug
Ozempic has shot to popularity and notoriety – particularly in Hollywood – for its ability to shave pounds quickly through weekly injections.
But there are increasing side effects.
Patients say they were suddenly repelled from their favorite foods – including ground beef and chicken burgers – after being prescribed the drug.
“Ozempic Face” was also created by Dr. Paul Frank, a dermatologist in New York.
He said this happens when rapid weight loss causes loose skin to appear around the cheeks and chin, and expects this to become a common problem as the drug gains popularity.
Other previously reported side effects include patients losing more muscle than fat — which might surprise the influencer types who use the drug to achieve a perfect physique.
When someone gains weight, the skin stretches to absorb the extra fat. And when someone loses weight, they contract to the new height.
However, if the weight loss is rapid, the skin may not have enough time to adjust to the new height.
In addition, weight loss can lead to a reduction in the amount of collagen and elastin in the skin—proteins essential to its structure and elasticity, and can reduce sagging. This can also be triggered by aging.
Nurse April Peter is among the patients who have faced sagging skin after using the weight loss drugs.
She used Mounjaro and lost up to 70 pounds after six and a half months.
But it also left her with sagging skin around her midsection, arms, legs and on her face.
Speaking about the skin, she said in a TikTok video, “I have a lot of loose skin.
“My arms have a lot of sagging skin, my thighs have a lot of sagging skin, they’re really soft, they’re not as tight as they used to be, but it’s ok.
“My stomach is the area where I have a lot of loose skin.
She added: “I have tons of loose skin, there’s so much, and it even goes down my back, it’s really soft.
“When I wear jeans and I buy jeans now, I try to get denim with a stiffer structure because I feel like it kind of pushes everything in… and kind of camouflages it for me.”
She said she doesn’t plan on having surgery to remove the skin because such a procedure “scares me.”
Ozempic has been approved for the treatment of obesity in overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
But the drug is now being prescribed off-label, especially for people who are a healthy weight but want to shed a few extra pounds ahead of “bikini season.”
Pictured above is Mrs Peter showing the loose skin she has around her midsection after taking the weight loss drug Mounjaro
Data shows more than five million Americans received a prescription for Ozempic in 2022, up from 230,000 in 2019.
And the number continues to grow with over 373,000 prescriptions on display in the last week of February alone, double the number for the same period last year. More than half of those were new, analysts said.
New prescriptions are most common in Texas, followed by Florida, California, New York and Georgia, according to data analysis from Komodo Health.
Ozempic works by mimicking a hormone in the body that makes someone think they are full.
As a result, they consume less – leading to weight loss.
But doctors are now telling patients using the drug to make sure they continue to eat enough protein to avoid muscle wasting. They also say people should do resistance training while taking the drug to maintain muscle.
It comes after a longevity doctor warned last month that Ozempic was causing patients’ muscles to shrink at an “alarming rate” and could increase their risk of health problems later in life.
dr Peter Attia, an Austin, Texas-based physician, warned that the drugs aren’t a “cure-all” for weight loss — even though they’re taking Hollywood by storm.
He said they produced an equal muscle-to-fat loss in patients, which he believed made them metabolically “fatter” because they then had a higher fat-to-muscle percentage.
On his podcast The Drive, Dr. Attia noted that patients on treatment also lose lean muscle mass, which could worsen their long-term health.
He added in a previous video on Instagram: “Almost without exception, every patient we’ve administered this drug to has lost muscle mass. And they’ve lost muscle mass at a rate that alarms me.”
He continued: “It’s not uncommon when you’re 280 pounds and going up to 180 pounds that you lose some muscle mass and some fat.
“But let’s be clear, if you lost 10 pounds of muscle and 10 pounds of fat to go from 200 to 180 pounds, would that be good?
“Well, only if you were over 50 percent body fat to start with. Otherwise you’ve lost muscle mass to fat disproportionately.’
He added, “In fact, as you lost weight, you gained weight.”