The hosts of “The View” openly talk about the use of weight loss drugs

Two hosts of ABC’s “The View” have joined the list of celebrities who openly advocate the use of prescription weight-loss drugs for cosmetic purposes.

While discussing Oprah Winfrey’s ABC project “Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution,” Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin revealed what ultimately led to their decision to show to Mounjaro – an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes – in numerous stages of their lives.

“I was taking all these steroids, I was taking all these drugs,” Goldberg said Tuesday: People reported. “One of the things that helped me lose weight was Mounjaro. That’s what I used.”

Goldberg said she weighed nearly 300 kilos while producing and starring in the 2022 biographical drama “Till,” which follows Mamie Till-Mobley, an educator who sought justice after the August 1955 murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett .

Additionally, she was recovering from a near-death incident that required over a month in hospital. She had pneumonia in each lungs and was diagnosed with sepsis, a potentially fatal disease brought on by the body’s response to an infection that may end up in tissue damage and organ failure.

The EGOT winner admitted that she didn’t realize her weight gain until she looked in the mirror in the future. “I just always felt like myself,” she recalls. “And then I saw me and I was like, ‘Oh! That’s a lot of me!”

According to PeopleHostin began taking medication after gaining weight during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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She claimed that “there is shame associated with gaining weight” and that “I have never experienced shame like this before.”

“I gained 40 pounds during the pandemic,” Hostin said. “All I did was eat… I love cooking and I discovered that I love eating. And I was terrified of the fact that I would have to go on air. So I took Mounjaro too.”

She also cited health effects, noting that her cholesterol rose to 200 as she gained weight.

“And I take Mounjaro and my cholesterol is now 140,” she added. “I feel better, I think I look better and that’s what people care about.”

In December, Winfrey said she uses the prescription weight-loss drug as part of her overall health and wellness routine, although she declined to disclose the brand name.

During the ABC special, which is centered around talking about the use of popular drugs for non-medical reasons, she talked about her long-term shame about her weight and recalled how for 25 years people mocked her as if it were “the national sport.”

Her ability to heal didn’t appear until she began to eliminate guilt from her thoughts. “I realized that all these years I had been blaming myself for being overweight and that I had a predisposition that no amount of willpower could overcome,” Winfrey said. “Obesity is a disease. It’s not about willpower, it’s about the brain.”

“When I tell you how many times I blamed myself,” Winfrey added. “Because you think you’re smart enough to figure it out, and then you hear it’s you fighting with your brain.”

Hostin praised Winfrey for her honesty and expressed hope that the discussion about obesity would help change public opinion. Goldberg agreed and advised the audience to treat themselves and one another more gently.

“Maybe the key is to stop judging everyone,” People said. “Maybe that’s the key.”

She concluded, “I think it’s a matter of how we treat ourselves.”