Alison Hammond has said she’s tired of being asked whether she used weight-loss injections like Ozempic or Wegovy after shedding more than 13 stone.
The This Morning and Bake Off star, 50, admitted she’s proud of her transformation but frustrated by the constant speculation that her progress must be down to weight-loss drugs.
“It worries me that the jab keeps getting brought up,” she shared. “Every single time I have a conversation in public, that is the question thrown at me.”
Asked directly if she had used the medication, she replied: “Absolutely not. I’m not a follower of what people do. I do what I need to do for me.”
The TV star said she’s open-minded about potential options in future.
“I don’t like the fact that you have to say, ‘Oh, no, I wouldn’t have the jab ever’,” she told the Daily Mail. “Maybe next year. Do you know what? I might start jabbing up. What does it matter how people lose weight. Would you rather me die from being obese?”
Hammond, who weighed 28 stone at her heaviest, got down to 16 and a half stone and reversed a pre-diabetic diagnosis by transforming her fitness and diet regime.
Rather than following restrictive diets, the presenter focused on moderation, adding: “I’m exactly the same person, be it bigger or smaller. There’s no difference to Alison at any size.”
Hammond joins a growing number of celebrities addressing the public fascination with Ozempic, including Sharon Osbourne and Rebel Wilson, as the conversation around body image, health and celebrity transparency continues to evolve.
The Channel 4 star previously revealed she had heard “scare stories” about weight loss injections and had been too “frightened” to try them.
Hammond shed the weight earlier this year after committing to four fitness sessions a week with a personal trainer and a healthier diet.
Her transformation followed years of ups and downs with her weight, including undergoing a gastric band in 2007, which she later had removed after her body rejected it.
Hammond’s mother Maria had raised concerns when the TV star was diagnosed pre-diabetic and she chose to address the issue following her parent’s passing in 2020 from lung and liver cancer.
“I've got a personal trainer - she's amazing, she trains me when I can train,” she told Heat.
“If I'm working, I don't train, I'll go for a walk. But when I'm at home, I'll go and have a session with her in the morning, just an hour. It might be four days a week.”
As for her diet, Hammond sets her day up with an immune system-boosting ginger shot and tucking into a Full English breakfast, consisting of eggs, bacon and sausages, which she will sit down to enjoy with her son Aiden.
On days when she is working, she will typically eat Caribbean food for lunch, such as rice, peas and chicken, and if she is at home, she’ll cook herself lasagne.
Of her evening meals, she told the Sunday Times magazine: “If I'm staying in I'll rustle up curried goat and rice or chicken fried rice.”
