Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia is sharing her thoughts on Ozempic use.
“No tea, no shade, no hate, just some field research,” LaPaglia, 26, said in a TikTok video on Tuesday, March 10. “Every single bitch I know is on Ozempic. People that do not need Ozempic. It’s like if I did Ozempic. Could I lose a couple? Surely. Do I need Ozempic? No!”
The influencer concluded by telling those who use the drug and do not need it, “You’re gonna die. You’re all gonna die.”
Ozempic is a GLP-1 once-weekly injection used to treat type 2 diabetes, although it is often prescribed off-label for weight loss. Similar drugs include Mounjaro, Zepbound and Wegovy. The reported dangers of using a GLP-1 when not needed include gallbladder and kidney problems, as well as the potential for nutrient deficiencies, according to Baptist Health.
LaPaglia’s comments come weeks after she opened up about overcoming her struggles with disordered eating.
“I had an anxiety-induced eating disorder, where I was always nauseous,” she said during a February 25 appearance on the “Real Pod” podcast. “Anytime I ate something, I would throw up. I would just avoid food at all costs because I knew that it would make me sick, or I was just so nauseous all the time [because of] my anxiety that I couldn’t eat.”
The Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test alum added that she hit “rock bottom” in fall 2023, when she reached her “lowest weight.”
“People were horrified. Every time I went home, my family was, like, ‘Oh, my gosh,’” LaPaglia recalled. “I was anemic from it, I had bruises all over me, and it was really, really hard when you’re in it for so long. Your body just gets used to it, and when I finally came out of all that anxiety or I was able to look at myself in the mirror and saw the way I looked, [it] was just so unhealthy.”
LaPaglia noticed that she had little energy and “wanted to sleep all day,” but she still struggled to eat.
“I was really working hard on a healthy relationship with food and not correlating eating time to being sick or being anxious,” she explained. “It really did, without me even knowing, create an eating disorder that I didn’t know how to navigate [or] what to do with it.”
LaPaglia eventually gained 25 pounds back.
“I was back at a healthy weight, but it didn’t happen overnight,” she continued. “Once I realized, I was like, ‘Holy s***, this is what’s happening to you.’ It took me four or five months to get back to a healthy weight or get back in a healthy mindset.”
LaPaglia concluded, “It was a f***ing process. Slowly but surely, obviously with anything that you do over time, it got better.”
