This Monday (4), ‘RHONJ’ star Jennifer Fessler reveals she was hospitalized for an ‘impacted bowel’ due to Ozempic use.
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During an episode of her and Jackie Goldschneider “Two Jersey Js” podcast, Fessler spoke about the subject. “I have been on, and I’m not going to call it Ozempic — that’s been the umbrella name. But I’ve been on semaglutide for over a year now, and I’ve lost maybe 22 pounds”, she revealed on the podcast.
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She admitted being “a raging hypochondriac”, but that when it comes to things involving her “physical appearance” her anxiety goes “out the window”. Fessler explained that she “was drinking no water” and “eating no vegetables”, and that for the first time she was “losing weight on pizza and bagels and ice cream”.
“I noticed there was constipation… I wasn’t taking Miralax, that you take every morning, or any kind of stool softener. I hadn’t gone in a week, then it was a week and a half”. Fessler stopped her story mid-way, and admitted she was “to blame” for “ignoring” the signs, and that she has since changed her ways.
The ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ star first hinted she was taking the drug in March, during “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen”. She admitted she lost “a lot of weight” by taking “peptides”. When asked directly if it was Ozempic, she joked “You said it, I didn’t. But … whatever works, here I am”.