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Andy Cohen needed to make a change.
On Friday, the Bravo host opened up about realizing he needed to get serious about his health while taping The Valley Season 2 reunion.
Andy Cohen did not ‘look my best’ during ‘The Valley’ reunion
“I couldn’t button my suits. It was bad,” Cohen said during his September 26 appearance on TODAY With Jenna and Friends.
“We all notice ourselves, and especially when we’re on TV and we’re looking at a freaking monitor of ourselves every day. Terrible,” he continued. ‘If you watch The Valley reunion from last season, which I know you will, I do not look my best. Let me say that. And it was after that that I was like, ‘I gotta get this together.’”
The Real Housewives producer said that he decided to make a major lifestyle change, which included tweaking his diet and workout routine, as well as taking weight-loss drugs.
“I lost a good chunk of weight,” he said. “I was microdosing a GLP, whatever … It kickstarted something.”
“I feel great, but it was a real fitness journey for me as well,” he added. And I’m just being so much more deliberate about what I put in my mouth and how I work out. I’m lifting heavier weights. And it’s been great.”
Andy Cohen isn’t the only Bravo personality who’s tried weight-loss drugs
Cohen’s decision to embrace a GLP-1 for weight loss put him in good company. Many other Bravo stars have opened up about using medications like Ozempic to shed pounds.
In 2024, Braunwyn Windham-Burke sang the praises of the drugs.
I’m on Ozempic now,” the RHOC alum told Us Weekly. “I don’t wanna cook, so I can’t eat! It’s been amazing [and] I can fit in my old clothes.”
RHONJ’s Dolores Catania said she started taking Mounjaro ahead of a reunion appearance. “I wasn’t going to come to the reunion looking any bigger than anyone else, so I got on the bandwagon,” she told Cohen during an appearance on What What Happens Live.
But Ozempic isn’t a magic shot for everyone. RHOA star Kandi Burruss tried it, only to discover the drug didn’t work for her.
“I saw so many people who were trying it and losing weight. So I was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to try this.’ And I didn’t lose any weight,” she said (via People).
“It didn’t curb my appetite,” she added. “I know some people are like, ‘Oh, I can’t eat.’ Not me! I was eating appetizers, a regular meal and dessert, okay? It didn’t stop anything for me.”
Others have expressed concern that taking GLP-1s could have unforeseen consequences in the long run.
“I’m horrified by it,” Jackie Goldschneider from RHONJ said on Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast in 2023. “I’m not so much horrified by people wanting to lose weight — that has always been a universal thing — but I’m very, very scared of what will happen if and when people have to go off this drug.”
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