Kelly Clarkson and Whoopi Goldberg bonded on Monday (May 13) about their recent weight loss journeys. While appearing on Clarkson's daytime talk show, Kelly was complimentary The view co-host, telling her “Every time I see you, you look younger! You're like Benjamin Button. It's like crazy every time you walk in!”
Goldberg, 68, in turn, said it was because of all the weight she's lost, which she noted as “almost two people,” with Clarkson noting, “I've lost a lot, too,” which Whoopi said that had noticed.
In a rare public comment from an A-lister about using the weight-loss drugs that have come into vogue in recent years, EGOT winner Goldberg said she uses “the great shot that works for people who need help.”
“Mine is different than what people assume,” Clarkson, 42, said. “I ended up doing it myself because my blood donation got so bad.” While Clarkson didn't specify which drug she was using, Goldberg noted that the decision to try the medical weight loss intervention is a good one for people like her who have “problems.”
Clarkson said she hadn't planned to discuss her weight loss with Goldberg, but when the subject came up, the singer said, “I didn't see it,” describing a tape review of a birthday performance she did last April at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles that surprised her. “We were watching it and I paid to tape it and I was going to take it out … and then my doctor hounded me for about two years and I said, 'no, I'm afraid of it.' I already have thyroid problems.' I was afraid. Everyone thinks it's Ozempic, it's not, it's something else.”
Ozempic is an FDA-approved injectable drug originally designed to help adults with type 2 diabetes manage their blood sugar. But the drug, and others like it, have been shown to have weight-loss properties that have led to an increase in off-label prescribing because of its added ability to trick the brain into thinking the patient is full. Clarkson said the unnamed drug she takes “helps break down the sugar [because] apparently my body isn't doing it right.”
Clarkson described watching footage of the birthday show at her New York home as she prepared to release the show, “and all of a sudden I stopped it and was like, 'who the f–k is that?' I swear to God! It sounds crazy.” Goldberg said she had a similar experience filming the historical drama Up to, where he said a woman on set thought the comedian/actor was wearing a “fat suit.” At her heaviest, Goldberg said she was around 300 pounds, with Clarkson, 5'3″, noting that at one point she weighed 203 pounds.
“I was indignant! I was like, 'that's not a fat suit! That's me!' And then I saw…” Goldberg said. “You see it and you're like, 'He's going to die of a heart attack,'” Clarkson replied. The weirdest part, Clarkson said, was that she never saw herself as overweight, she was never insecure about her body and, despite what she said some people believed, she was happy.
Goldberg put it in relatable comedic terms, joking that Clarkson was just living her life, then added, “If you're not crushing on someone…” which led Kelly to realize how uncaring she was. “I'm going to be real with you, I was getting high with someone and I didn't know!… I watched that show and I thought, 'he's… he's going to die in any second.'
In a February interview on her show with Kevin James, Clarkson said she was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, which motivated her to lose weight. Then he said: “I wasn't shocked. I was a bit overweight. So, yeah, I wasn't shocked by that. But they did. They used to tell me: “You are prediabetic. You're right on the edge.' And I said, “But I'm not there yet.” And then I waited two years and then, however, I moved to — I said “Okay, I'll do something about it.”
Around the same time, Clarkson said that after moving to New York with her two young children, she began to lose some weight by walking around the city constantly, watching her diet and using an infrared sauna. “I eat a healthy mix. I lost weight because I listened to my doctor – I hadn't for a few years,” she said at the time. “And 90 percent of the time I'm pretty good at it because a protein diet is good for me anyway. I'm a Texas girl, so I like meat — sorry, vegetarians of the world!”
Watch Goldberg at Kelly Clarkson Show below.
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