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At 70, Kris Jenner still runs an empire. She\u2019s up before most people have hit their first snooze button, firing off emails, taking calls, managing careers, building businesses, and somehow still making time to show up to dinner with her kids looking like she just stepped off a red carpet.<\/p>\n
For years, people have watched her closely, wondering, speculating, and sometimes whispering about how she keeps it all together\u2026 and how she keeps looking the way she does. The theories have been loud, relentless, and very public.<\/p>\n
But this week, for the first time, the momager sat down and actually answered the question everyone has been too polite\u2026 or too nosy to ask outright: Did she take Ozempic or didn\u2019t she? Turns out, the answer is yes. And no. And the full story is a whole lot more interesting than either of those answers.<\/p>\n
During a Tuesday, May 5 appearance on the SHE MD<\/em> Podcast, hosted by OBGYN Dr. Tha\u00efs Aliabadi and women\u2019s advocate Mary Alice Haney<\/a>, Jenner opened up about something she had never publicly confirmed before.<\/p>\n She tried Ozempic. She tried it early, before it became the cultural obsession it is today, before it was the word on everyone\u2019s lips at dinner parties and the punchline of every late-night monologue.<\/p>\n And it knocked her flat. \u201cI did not do, like, an Ozempic,\u201d<\/a> she told the hosts. \u201cI tried it. We tried it once when no one knew what it was, and it made me really sick.\u201d<\/p>\n What followed was the kind of raw, unscripted moment that Kris Jenner rarely gives us. She recalled calling up Dr. Aliabadi, her personal physician and one of the podcast\u2019s hosts, at the end of her rope. \u201cI can\u2019t work anymore,\u201d she told her. \u201cI can\u2019t. I\u2019m so sick. I can\u2019t, like\u2026 nauseous.\u201d<\/p>\n And just like that, the medication that millions of people had been chasing prescriptions for, the one that turned Hollywood into a waiting room, was off the table for her. Dr. Aliabadi\u2019s response was straightforward, \u201cOkay, let\u2019s try something else.\u201d<\/p>\n It might be easy to brush this off as a celebrity casually admitting to dabbling in a trend, but the reality of what Jenner described is something that an enormous number of people have quietly lived through and rarely talk about.<\/p>\n Ozempic, known generically as semaglutide<\/a>, was originally developed as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes. Its appetite-suppressing effects made it a word-of-mouth sensation in Hollywood long before it became a mainstream conversation. But the drug\u2019s most common side effect, nausea, is no small inconvenience.<\/p>\n According to clinical trial data, up to 20% of people taking Ozempic for diabetes reported nausea, and rates were even higher among those using it for weight loss.<\/a><\/p>\n Research published in peer-reviewed literature found that gastrointestinal complaints affected anywhere from 41.9% to 82.8% of semaglutide users, depending on dosage.<\/p>\nWhen the Wonder Drug Isn\u2019t So Wonderful<\/h2>\n