Chelsea Handler shared that her doctor handed her Ozempic in case she ever “wanted to lose five pounds.”
The comedian recently shared her experience with the Type 2 diabetes medication—which has become a popular —explaining that she didn't realize she was taking the drug after being prescribed it by a doctor.
"My anti-aging doctor just hands it out to anybody," the 47-year-old revealed during the Jan. 25 episode of "But while she tried the drug, Handler noted that she didn't like how it made her feel.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters. "I came back from a vacation and I injected myself with it," she recalled."I went to lunch with a girlfriend a few days later, and she was like, 'I'm not really eating anything. I'm so nauseous, I'm on Ozempic.' And I was like, 'I'm kind of nauseous too.' But I had just come back from Spain and was jet-lagged."
Handler explained that her friend double-checked and asked her if she was absolutely sure she wasn't on the drug, to which Handler responded that she was just"on semaglutide," to which her friend stated, "That's Ozempic." What's more? Handler admitted that she stopped using the drug because it wasn't medically necessary for her. She added that she now gives away the remaining doses to friends.
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