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Fat Joe admitted to using Uzbek as part of his lifestyle changes that helped him lose weight.
Veteran knocker Fat Joe admitted to using the weight loss drug Ozempic, explaining that it is part of his journey to better health overall. The Bronx, New York artist spoke candidly about this while being interviewed as part of promotion for the 2024 BET Awards last week. “Ozempic says you can only have two pieces of your favorite things,” he joked, referring to carbs. Fat Joe said he has been taking Ozempic since he was dealing with diabetes from a young age.
The “All The Way Up” rapper is one of the few who has spoken openly about the drug, but says a big part of losing nearly 200 pounds was adjusting his diet. “We just try to eat everything with as few carbs as possible,” Fat Joe said. “So we try to stay away from bread, pasta, rice. This is the smartest way to eat.” He noted that carbohydrate intake is essential and that portion control was important.
“Like this morning I had breakfast, I had this toast. I cut the corner, ate it and kept it moving,” he said. “Normally I would have eaten [sic] the whole thing. But you know, that's what we do. We're cutting carbs and trying to be smarter.” The 54-year-old also joked that he wasn't going to change his name anytime soon, on mandate of his wife, Lorena Cartagena. “My wife would kill me. She likes that I'm a big boy,” he joked. “He's delusional like I'm still such a big boy. She likes that.”
Fat Joe has become a figure known to prioritize health, recently becoming the face of a new ad for healthcare advocacy group Power To The Patients. “If you don't support affordability and transparency in health care, you're putting every American in this country at risk,” he says in the new ad. “Because when we can't see the prices — hospitals, insurance and their middlemen charge us whatever they want. Our very health system is robbing us all. We just need the prices. This is how our economy works!!!”
