Hollywood plastic surgeons spill on new Ozempic hack A-listers are using for speedy Oscars makeovers... and why 'you'll be shocked' to discover who's doing it!

Oscars hype is astatine fever transportation up of tonight's 97th Academy Awards.

For the nominees, the accidental to container a statue is the dream, of course, but for every attendee – from up-and-coming Hollywood starlets to headlining movie stars – the reddish carpet offers an unparalleled accidental to showcase conscionable however gorgeous, irresistible and employable they are.

Everyone wants to dazzle, not conscionable successful beforehand of the multi-million planetary TV audience, but besides the casting directors, agents and hotshot producers who volition beryllium astatine the ceremonial and glittering afterparties.

Traditionally, this has ever been achieved by an onslaught of pre-Oscar makeovers – months of aggravated workouts, a well-timed dose of Botox oregon filler, immoderate lipo, adjacent a subtle facelift.

But this year, for Oscars 2025, there's a caller inclination successful town.

Microdosing, oregon taking tiny amounts of Ozempic and different GLP-1 weight-loss jabs similar Mounjaro, Wegovy oregon Zepbound is the precise latest mode for celebrities to effortlessly attain that Awards-night silhouette.

Extreme skinniness, aft all, is 1 mode to get yourself noticed – though immoderate mightiness accidental a fistful of the pistillate stars astatine past weekend's Screen Actors Guild Awards are successful information not of making an impact, but of disappearing altogether!

It has go 1 of LA's favourite guessing games: who is jabbing themselves to lose weight and who isn't?

Stars specified arsenic Rebel Wilson, Oprah Winfrey, Sharon Osbourne, and Kathy Bates person been unfastened astir the spectacular amounts they've mislaid connected the drugs. 

Rebel Wilson's plus-size was erstwhile her calling card, yet the 44-year-old histrion has dropped 80lbs implicit the people of a weight-loss programme that started successful 2020 and included a high-protein diet, regular workout and the usage of Ozempic, to scope her extremity value of 11 chromatic 4lbs.

Her agents were reportedly appalled erstwhile their large prima became a smaller 1 because, alongside the weight, she besides mislaid her unsocial selling point. 

Other stars are much coy, particularly those who were not overweight successful the archetypal place, person nary aesculapian problems, and are lone microdosing to bash up the zip connected a choky size zero.

'Celebrities are utilizing these medications for a small refresher, to suffer a fewer pounds, acceptable into an outfit and not look puffy,' apical Beverly Hills facial surgeon Dr Babak Azizzadeh tells me.

Dr Azizzadeh, who is co-founder of the online aesthetic wellness level Persana, points retired that helium is not endorsing microdosing, but believes there's nary mode to enactment the Ozempic genie backmost successful the bottle: 'In the past six months, it's go a really, truly large trend. I spot it successful my patients, arsenic person chap colleagues successful the aesculapian satellite and wellness space.'

Another starring Beverly Hills integrative surgeon, Dr Kelly Killeen, finds the Ozempic bandwagon much concerning.

'In my practice, a precise precocious percent of patients coming successful for procedures are connected these medications and it's precise astonishing to me,' she says.

'I person radical who are very, precise bladed and I inquire them wherefore they are taking the [weight loss] medicine and they archer maine they person 3 to 5 pounds to lose.

'You'd beryllium shocked astatine immoderate of the stars who spot this arsenic a weight-loss tool. They're already astatine a wholly mean value and person nary aesculapian problems but they're inactive scrambling to suffer weight.

'Until we tin beryllium assured that bouncing connected and disconnected these medicines is not causing radical harm, I don't enactment it.'

Indeed, the pharmaceutical manufacture and immoderate fare medics accidental there's inactive not capable information astir the effects of weight-loss drugs connected radical with debased BMIs oregon astir the consequences of off-label use.

Even successful Hollywood, wherever radical are mostly precise unfastened astir aesthetic procedures, galore enactment tight-lipped astir their usage of GLP-1 jabs.

'Some celebrities person been honorable astir being connected [Ozempic] for ample amounts of value nonaccomplishment combined with aesculapian problems, and that's socially acceptable due to the fact that nine looks kindly connected radical successful larger bodies taking steps to beryllium smaller,' says Dr Killeen.

'Whereas nine doesn't look kindly connected radical taking value nonaccomplishment drugs erstwhile they are already successful smaller bodies. Those radical are already fitting society's quality standards. It's viewed arsenic excessive.

'I surely don't spot celebrities publically admitting [that they're utilizing the drugs] for tiny amounts of value loss.'

In Hollywood, of course, bladed is ever in, nary substance however overmuch radical speech astir assemblage positivity.

Los Angeles obesity specializer Dr Pooja Gidwani says she understands the attraction of a last-minute driblet successful value earlier a large lawsuit and is definite immoderate A-listers volition beryllium utilizing abdominous jabs to displacement the unusual bulge for the Oscars. But she sounds a enactment of informing astir the increasing trend.

'Someone who wants to suffer value successful a mode that's bully for their wellness should beryllium doing it implicit the people of 8 to 10 weeks,' she says. 'I similar to archer my patients that losing 1.5 to 2lbs is simply a good, dependable gait to suffer weight.'

Neither should microdosing ever beryllium self-administered, she warns: 'Without the guidance of a doctor, users tin spot musculus loss, bony loss, nutrient deficiencies, thinning hairsbreadth and a clang of metabolism if you suffer value excessively quickly. You tin go highly acold and determination whitethorn beryllium changes successful your hormonal profile.

'If you're not doing value nonaccomplishment the close mode past you're hurting your chances astatine longevity. The champion mode is to person a practitioner supervising.'

But immoderate experts assertion Ozempic and different GLP-1s are a healthier enactment than immoderate of the extremes Hollywood has known successful the past.

As a young actress, Judy Garland was enactment connected amphetamines to support her value down, portion Elizabeth Taylor, who described herself arsenic a 'meat and potatoes girl', went connected yo-yo diets each her life. Jane Fonda has said she was bulimic till the property of 50.

More recently, popular prima Lady Gaga and actresses Lily Collins are among the galore stars who person admitted bingeing and purging erstwhile they were young to acceptable Hollywood's modular of beauty.

Dr Gidwani says these kinds of utmost measures are intelligibly dangerous, and that the usage of Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy mightiness good beryllium safer.

She besides points to different benefits from the drugs that are conscionable emerging.

'New probe shows that these medications tin besides summation intelligence clarity, trim inflammation and assistance radical tame their cravings for much than conscionable food,' she says.

'When these medications came out, determination was nary speech of microdosing. We've seen this inclination look rather precocious due to the fact that of these further perceived benefits.'

'It's decidedly happening, not conscionable with celebrities and large events similar the Golden Globes oregon the Oscars, but with different radical who are looking to suffer value earlier events similar a household wedding.'   

Dr Babak Azizzadeh, who specializes successful facial integrative surgery, says helium sees 2 chiseled groups of patients connected value nonaccomplishment drugs astatine his Beverly Hills clinic.

'Younger individuals who person bully tegument elasticity inactive person bodies and faces that tin grip a definite magnitude of value loss,' helium says.

But portion they do want an ultra-lean body, helium adds, they don't privation a thin-looking face, truthful request to plump it backmost up: 'They volition travel successful and inquire for comparatively straightforward procedures similar abdominous grafting [to the face].' 

For his older clientele, it's a antithetic story.

'Older people, peculiarly women who person been done the menopause, tin spot a noticeable alteration successful facial fat, sometimes dubbed "Ozempic face".

'The fig of facelifts I'm doing connected patents who person this information has gone up 20 to 30 percent. Many women haven't wanted to person facelifts before, but present they person a batch of sagging and measurement loss, and they're acrophobic astir it.

'If you're not obese and you suffer a fewer other pounds, each of a abrupt you tin look gaunt. It's a balancing enactment and I deliberation microdosing is being utilized for that. Individuals are going connected it, getting disconnected it, past going backmost connected again.'

Ahead of past year's Oscars, Eli Lilly, the institution that sells Zepbound – a marque sanction for Tirzepatide, a medicine akin to Ozempic – took the bonzer measurement of scolding bladed and normal-weight Hollywood stars for their obsession with weight-loss drugs.

The pharmaceutical institution took retired a TV advertisement that showed a changeable of a glittery golden formal and the reddish carpet, with a voiceover saying: 'Some radical person been utilizing medicine ne'er meant for them for the smaller formal oregon tux, for a large night… but that's not the point.'

A twelvemonth on, and tonight's reddish carpet volition amusement whether Hollywood took overmuch – oregon immoderate – announcement of that astonishment telling-off.