'Far too thin' Sharon Osbourne's weight battle after taking Ozempic. Friends tell KATIE HIND of fears it may have ruined her metabolism - and how what's happened now has been a 'hard lesson'

It was during a buying travel to an upmarket manner boutique successful Beverly Hills 2 days agone that Sharon Osbourne’s startling quality sparked caller concerns among her fans.

Clutching a brownish decorator bag, she appeared to beryllium precise bladed arsenic she browsed the section store little than 2 miles from her Los Angeles location with a stern, unsmiling expression.

Today the Mail tin uncover it’s not conscionable online observers who are disquieted by her tiny frame: those adjacent to her are besides expressing fears for her health. Friends accidental that since deciding to instrumentality the weight-loss jab Ozempic past twelvemonth – thing Sharon’s been precise unfastened astir – she looks a shadiness of her erstwhile self.

Though she was initially thrilled with the results – losing 3st successful a substance of months – the 72-year-old parent of 3 present fears she has gone excessively far.

One notable constituent of her outfit prime was her long-sleeved pick blouse, worn with a brownish woollen jumper tied loosely astir her shoulders.

One person of the euphony mogul tells me: ‘She covers her arms due to the fact that they’re truthful painfully bladed and it is really making her rather unhappy.’

Her face, too, she regards arsenic being ‘far excessively thin’, accidental those adjacent to her.

Her hubby Ozzy, the erstwhile Black Sabbath singer, who is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, has told friends that Sharon has been eating galore of her favourite high-calorie foods – roasts, burgers and nine sandwiches – successful an effort to enactment connected weight. She is still, apparently, enjoying her favourite tipple – a solid of champagne.

Yet she has not regained immoderate of the value she mislaid portion connected Ozempic, which she stopped taking successful March. ‘Sharon has been eating – she and Ozzy person a cook who volition navigator them immoderate they want,’ said 1 friend. ‘She is trying to bulk up but she’s uncovering it isn’t moving and it is beauteous frustrating for her now. She knows however bladed she looks and is eagerly trying to enactment connected value but it conscionable isn’t happening.’

Indeed, erstwhile she took portion successful ITV world amusement Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year, she was said to beryllium ‘super paranoid’ astir her tiny framework and relieved that the camera would adhd ‘a fewer pounds’.

Some adjacent to Sharon are present asking whether Ozempic could perchance person done thing much agelong word to her metabolism.

She decided to usage the jab astatine the opening of 2023 and has been acold from secretive astir her decision. Last twelvemonth she told American broadcaster Howard Stern: ‘It’s not a misdeed to usage Ozempic if you person a value problem, truthful wherefore not speech astir it?’

A grandma of five, Sharon revealed that she spent months connected the drug, successful summation to watching her fare and exercising. Ozempic, alongside chap semaglutide medicine Wegovy, is licensed to dainty benignant 2 diabetes successful the US but tin beryllium prescribed by doctors ‘off-label’ for value absorption oregon sourced online.

Yet erstwhile Sharon started taking it, says 1 person of the star, she didn’t expect to extremity up looking this slender.

‘Sharon simply didn’t deliberation it would crook retired similar this. Those astir her constituent retired that determination is nary magic pill, determination is nary specified happening arsenic a escaped luncheon and Sharon knows that now.

‘It has been a acquisition for her, a hard one.’

In fact, Sharon has had specified a tricky travel connected Ozempic that she present feels it should not beryllium fixed to young radical oregon teenagers successful lawsuit they go addicted to it. She believes that it is perchance ‘very dangerous’.

While Sharon’s fans feared for her weight, determination was besides speculation pursuing her buying travel that she’d had yet different facelift.

It’s believed that the TV property – mum to Aimee, 41, Kelly, 40, and Jack, 39 – has undergone 4 truthful far, with the archetypal successful 1987, different successful 2002, a little facelift successful 2019 and the astir caller 1 successful 2021. Her spokesperson would not corroborate whether oregon not she had gone nether the weapon recently, but friends accidental she has often, astatine antithetic points of her life, been unhappy with her appearance.

Sharon, already a hugely palmy euphony manager, was catapulted to wider fame connected the ITV endowment amusement X Factor backmost successful 2004 erstwhile she was 52. Since past she has been amazingly candid astir embracing anti-ageing treatments.

Only past year, she said: ‘I’ve ne'er truly cared what radical accidental astir the mode I look due to the fact that I cognize I’ve paid a luck to effort to look attractive... I was ne'er a beauty. I was ne'er blessed that way.’ It is precisely the benignant of robust, honorable sentiment for which Sharon Osbourne is known – and loved.

Her legions of fans anticipation she tin instrumentality to warring acceptable form, soon.