Actual Housewives of Orange County star Emily Simpson is coming clear about her weight reduction — and the way she used Ozempic to “kickstart” her journey.

“We completed filming in November of 2022, which was eight months in the past. Once we completed filming, I had form of a nervous breakdown,” the truth star, 47, defined on SiriusXM’s The Jeff Lewis Show on Wednesday, June 28. “I feel I simply went for 4 months onerous after we have been filming and I ate an excessive amount of, drank an excessive amount of, and simply didn’t get sufficient sleep, didn’t train.”

Simpson informed Jeff Lewis that she needed to let her followers know that she didn’t simply shed kilos “unexpectedly” in a “very quick time frame” regardless of what they’re seeing on season 13 of RHOC.

After seeing a physician amid her melancholy and weight achieve, “I did a full blood panel,” Simpson shared. “My ldl cholesterol was excessive. I’ve zero testosterone. I used to be pre-diabetic, so she truly stated, ‘Why don’t you do a semiglutide?’ which is Ozempic, so I did. I did that in December.”

The California resident added that she was on Ozempic for one month. (Per the FDA, Ozempic and Wegovy, one other semiglutide, are typically used for chronic weight management or to assist in a weight-related situation akin to sort 2 diabetes.)

Although Simpson stated her Ozempic use was a “nice kickstart for me … [to lose] 5 to seven kilos,” she in the end went off the drug as a result of it “made me really feel torpid and it made me simply not have lots of power, which was onerous with three little children.” Emily and husband Shane Simpson share daughter Annabelle, 10, and twin boys Luke and Keller, 7. (Shane can be the daddy of two daughters from a earlier marriage.)

Whereas Emily is certainly one of a number of Housewives — together with Dolores Catania and Margaret Josephs — to now admit to utilizing a semiglutide or an identical drug for weight reduction, she beforehand appeared to shut down the claims from followers who accused her of utilizing Ozempic.

“You don’t know me and nothing will ‘revert again’ bc my arms are jacked from heavy lifting,” Emily responded to her followers by way of Instagram on Friday, June 23.

Emily went on to inform Jeff Lewis that she had liposuction on her arms, revealing that her arms had “at all times bothered” her, so she received a “new” liposuction therapy. She additionally received a breast discount.

“Once I healed from that and I got here out of it, you understand, eight weeks later or no matter, I seemed fully completely different. … I felt prefer it was simply an enormous distinction in my total look simply to have the thinner arms and simply the smaller chest and I used to be so proud of the surgical procedure, and I’ve a lot muscle beneath that when he did the liposuction, my arms have been simply jacked,” she defined.

Nonetheless, it wasn’t simply the rapid weight reduction from Ozempic and the plastic surgery that changed her look, Emily defined. “As soon as all [the fat from my arms] was gone, I used to be like, “Rattling, you possibly can inform I’ve been understanding for all these years,” she stated. “I used to be so impressed by seeing this muscle that I simply hard-core went a totally completely different route with meals. I turned very conscientious of what I used to be consuming. I modified my food regimen fully. I eat largely protein, little or no carbs, and I work out like six, seven days per week.”