Brooks Nader, renowned for her work with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, has not shied away from discussing her experience with weight-loss medications. She has been transparent about the weight she has shed over the years and the side effects she encountered while using drugs like Ozempic and GLP-1. Though these medications are primarily prescribed to manage diabetes by controlling glucose levels and appetite, which can lead to weight loss, they are not advised for casual weight reduction.

In an interview with Us Weekly in August 2025, Nader expressed her frustration with the secrecy surrounding these drugs in social circles. “I got tired of attending cocktail parties or fashion events and seeing acquaintances who had suddenly dropped 80 pounds,” she shared. “I’d compliment them on how great they looked, and they’d claim, ‘Oh, I just started working out.’ I wasn’t a fan of the dishonesty.”

Nader has been candid about her own experience, stating, “I had a weight loss, so why should I lie? I was upfront about being on Ozempic.” This admission places her among a number of celebrities who have tried the controversial medication.

Reflecting on her brief use of Ozempic, Nader, 27, recounted to Us Weekly at a Bio.Me launch event on December 3, “I tried a small dose when it first became popular and everyone seemed to be on it. It made me feel quite nauseous, though I did find some benefits.”

Brooks Nader was briefly among the celebrities to try the controversial weight loss medication Ozempic. “I took, like, a little bit when it first came out, and everyone was doing it,” Nader, 27, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Bio.Me launch event on Tuesday, December 3. “It made me really nauseous. I liked it — […]

Keep scrolling to see everything the model has said about using weight loss medications:

Her Addiction

After Brooks Nader got candid about the side effects of GLP-1 on her reality show Love Thy Nader, fans reached out to the model to share their stories.

“The thing that I was so shocked about with the show was that I had so many people reach out to me, saying, ‘I’m also addicted to GLP-1. I’m ashamed to talk about it because there’s such a stigma around it. It’s a crutch for me,’” she told Bustle in November 2025. “I’m still on it. It’s a crutch for me, too. It’s not healthy. I should get off it; I’ll be honest about that.”

Booking Modeling Jobs

“If I didn’t get a job, I would say to [my old agency], ‘Can we get feedback from the client?’” Brooks Nader recalled to Bustle in November 2025. “The direct feedback was I needed to lose 30 pounds. I didn’t shed one tear over it. I don’t feel bad for myself. I just say, ‘The facts are they want me to lose weight. How can I achieve that?’”

She shared that once she started taking GLP-1, her “career took off.”

“I’m not saying it’s OK. I’m not saying it’s right,” she added. “I think everybody is different — but I lost 30 pounds, and I booked all the jobs.”

Trying Ozempic

Brooks Nader told Us Weekly exclusively that she also experimented with Ozempic before competing on season 33 of Dancing With the Stars in 2024.

“I took, like, a little bit when it first came out, and everyone was doing it,” she told Us in December 2024. “It made me really nauseous. I liked it — I am not going to lie — and when I went on Dancing With the Stars, I could not do both.”

“It was one or the other, and I picked dancing. I put the shot away,” she added.

Her Worried Sisters

Brooks Nader’s sisters, Grace Ann Nader, Mary Holland Nader and Sarah Jane Nader, held an intervention for the Sports Illustrated model while filming season 1 of Love Thy Nader in 2025.

After Brooks booked a cover shoot with Maxim Magazine, she decided to up her dose of GLP-1 to look “extra snatched.”

The higher dosage resulted in Brooks feeling nauseous, struggling to stay awake in a bathtub and nearly fainting during a workout class.

Brooks Nader has got to grips with the ups and downs of fame pretty fast — but sometimes it’s hard for her family to keep up. In her exclusive cover interview with Us Weekly, the 28-year-old model revealed that her sisters have accidentally leaked stories about her in the past by being a little too […]

Her sisters then found the amount of GLP-1 needles and bottles that Brooks had stocked up and set up an intervention.

“I know my sisters are coming from a place of love, I just find that you don’t know until you’re in that position how to handle it,” Brooks said of the intervention in a confessional. “I think that I have maybe an unhealthy relationship with weight and food because of the industry that I’m in, but I don’t think that I have an eating disorder,” she added.