The tragic truth about why Sharon Osbourne is so skinny and the hair -raising impact that Ozempic has had on her – as worried friends tell Katie Hind that they are desperately worried about her health

When Sharon Osbourne was a judge on the X FactorShe had a reputation for the right talk.

There was no subject, no matter how intimate, inappropriate or downright embarrassing, that she was forbidden. It sometimes caused her a lot in trouble – but also made her fun.

The 72-year-old grandmother, TV personality, wife and former manager of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy, was particularly open about her 20-year relationship with cosmetic surgeryadmit to a full faceliftabdominal wall correction, eyelift, breast implants, abdominoplastic and Botox Over the years.

At one point she said that she “didn’t have much skin left to stretch, pull or cut” and complained that her last eyelift had left her “looked like f *** ing cyclops.”

Nowadays, however, there is one subject that is no longer funny – and that is her dramatic weight loss.

Featured in Los Angeles This week it is clear that she is painfully weak.

Dressed in an extra large, flodige white sweatshirt and cream -colored pants while she was wearing shopping bags, her shockingly thin frame was unmistakable.

Sharon-a yo-yo-dieter and former Bulimic who has struggled her all life with her body image at the beginning of 2023 and started using the weight loss injection Ozempic lost more than four stones within a few months.

With typical Chutzpah, last year she Know everything to the American broadcaster Howard Stern, Saying: “It’s not a shame to use Ozempic if you have a weight problem, so why not talk about it?”

But a year after the completion of the medication – which has a permit to treat type 2 diabetes in the US, but doctors can be prescribed for weight management here – she has trouble eating and today weighs hardly seven stones, which is far too thin for her 5FT 2 in frame.

She is desperately worried about her health, say friends, just like everyone else in the neighborhood of her – Including her equally vulnerable husband Ozzy, 76.

“Sharon just can’t eat,” said a friend. ‘When you eat with her, she pushes her food around her plate.

“She is struggling to eat a bowl of fruit. She stopped taking Ozempic, but the after effects have been terrible for her. She did not expect it to end that way.

“She looks in the mirror, she knows what she looks like.

‘She is skinny, she is so thin and although she has been very trim for a long time, this is something else and she knows it. Does she want her to never touch Ozempic? Yes.’

Other friends urge her to take action against the manufacturers of the medicine.

“No one else looks like Sharon after he took it,” another friend of the star told me. “It has changed her completely. She sometimes looks terrible and she knows that Ozempic has not been so nice for her. ‘

There Is another reason why Sharon is so concerned about her health, and that is because Ozzy itself is extremely unwell.

Ozzy, who has been abusing alcohol and drugs for years as the archetypal wild man of Rots, was seriously injured in 2003 at a quad bike accident that left him need several spinal operations and often limited to a wheelchair.

Then he revealed in 2020 that he had diagnosed the progressive neurological disorder, Parkinson’s disease.

The couple, whose 42-year-old marriage passed despite Ozzy’s unfaithfulness, had looked at it Returning to the UK where Sharon had controled the renovations of their house in Buckinghamshire. She saw it as the place for them to see their days together.

However, Ozzy’s precarious health is unable to travel and limited to their house in Los Angeles – where he Has full -time caregivers to take care of him.

“She is worried, he is the love of her life and he is struggling,” says a friend. ‘Their plans to get home in Great -Britain and having a beautiful life are not currently happening.

“That gives you an idea of ​​how bad the situation is and it is frightening for her.”

In turn I was told that Ozzy is also worried about his wife and friends say that if something happened to her, he would be ‘inconsolable’.

The couple, whose reality -tv -show De Osbournes in 2002 pushed them to international starhave worked on a ten-part reality TV series, Home to Roost, about their plans to leave the US-where they have lived in and out for almost 30 years and their new life in England.

Sharon’s plans for their British house include building a ‘rehabilitation wing’ to help the singer learn to walk again.

The proposed plans include an extension with sufficient space for a nurse and around caregivers on the site.

Also in the vicinity of his ‘an abundance of stopping and sitting’ spaces, as well as ‘discrete Grijsperrails and AIDS’, plus a pool houses Oranjery, training studio and garden room with a view of a lake.

It is now unclear whether Ozzy will ever be able to make the journey – or indeed whether Sharon can continue to support her husband if her own health becomes increasing concern.

It is honest to say that she has never tried the conventional path in her personal or professional life.

Sharon, born in London, met Ozzy for the first time in 1970 when she was only 18 years old and her father, Don Arden, managed Black Sabbath. But Sparks only flew between them many years later.

That happened after Ozzy had kicked himself out of the band due to problems with resource abuse and lived in a hotel for three months. Only when Sharon intervened to help him recover that they fell in love in 1979. She also took over the same year as his manager and encouraged him to pursue a solo career.

They married in July 1982, in Hawaii – months after Ozzy had completed his divorce from his first wife, Thelma Riley.

They then had three children: Aimee, in 1983, Kelly in 1984 and Jack in 1985.

Three pregnancies in three years, however, Sharon had her weight struggled and at some point she threw the scales on more than 16 stone – more than double her current weight.

From her relationship with food, she once said: ‘I was never a druggia. When Ozzy and I were together first, I would try to keep up with his drink, but I was useless.

‘One wine gum and I am on the ground. No, my weakness has always been food. If I’m happy, I eat. When I’m sad, I eat. I was a pig. On my heaviest I weighed 225 pounds – that is just over 16 stone. And I am only 5ft 2 in. I weighed more than my husband. ‘

Known for her hard exterior, she was plagued by uncertainties. “I wasn’t happy. Of course on the surface, but at night alone in bed I was very unhappy. “

She had a gastric band operation in 1999, which reduced the size of her stomach and enabled her to lose eight stone. But she had removed it in 2006 because she didn’t like ‘the way it felt her’ and instead switched to the high-protein Atkins diet.

There was still a worrying episode in 2002 when she was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Given only a survival forecast of 33 percent, she survived and founded the Sharon Osbourne Cancer Program in the Cedars-SINAI hospital in California two years later.

A decade later she underwent a precautionary double mastectomy after she found that she is wearing a defective gene that increases the chance of breast cancer.

The phenomenal success of their reality TV program, the Osbournes, Plus Sharon’s three-year-old Stint as a host on the X Factor between 2004 and 2007, meant that she was rarely out of the public eye in the 1990s – which undoubtedly further focused her attention on her appearance.

After having decided to try Ozempic two years ago, she initially says she was satisfied with the results, but that was Shocked about the dramatic impact of the drug on her body.

“You can lose so much weight and it is easy to get addicted to it, which is very dangerous,” she said. ‘I could not stop losing weight and now I have lost 42 pounds. I can no longer afford to lose more. ‘

When she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother last year, viewers were shocked by how desperate she would become. Some even wondered if it was even her in the show, she was so unrecognizable.

With typical self -removal, Sharon admitted on a podcast in February that she had gone ‘too far’ and feared that she had permanently damaged her metabolism.

Whatever happens, it is clear that the Osbourne show is not over yet, and Sharon and Ozzy have even more obstacles to overcome, Before they can finally enjoy the peaceful life they have planned for their old age.