Ozempic is no reason to laugh for the comedian. Handler revealed that her “anti-aging doctor” prescribed the medication without her knowing what medication it was.
“I didn't even know I was there,” she said during the January 25, 2023 episode of Call Her Daddy. “She said, 'If you ever want to lose five pounds, that's good.'”
But when she tried the drug, Handler realized she didn't like the feelings it caused.
“I came back from vacation and injected myself,” she remembers. “A few days later I went to lunch with a friend and she said, 'I don't really eat anything. I'm so sick, I'm taking Ozempic.' And I thought, 'I'm kind of sick too.' But I had just come back from Spain and I was jet-lagged.”
Ultimately, Handler stopped taking the drug because it wasn't medically necessary for her, adding that she gave away the remaining doses to friends.
“I injected about four or five of my friends with Ozempic because I realized I didn't want to use it because it was silly,” she said. “It’s for heavy people. I have people come to my house and I'm like, 'Okay, I can see you at 1 o'clock, I can see you at 2 o'clock.'”
