Khloe Kardashian Responds to Accusations She Used Weight Loss Drug: ‘Stop With Your Assumptions’

04.01.2023 - 20:33 / usmagazine.com

Not here for it! Khloé Kardashian is proud of her weight loss journey — and will fervently defend how she got there.

The Good American designer, 38, shared photos from her Sorbet magazine cover shoot via Instagram on Tuesday, January 3, in which she bared her abs. Kardashian — who noted via her caption that she surprisingly liked the clip-in bangs from the photos — was quickly met with backlash over her skinny appearance.

“The fact that she uses [diabetic] medicine to get this skinny is disturbing,” a social media user replied on Tuesday, alleging that Kardashian uses semaglutide (commonly used in medicines Ozempic and Wegovy) to achieve her svelte figure. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the medications are used for chronic weight management in adults with obesity or who are overweight with a weight-related condition, including high blood pressure or type 2 diabetes.

The Kardashians star, for her part, quickly responded to the accusation. “Let’s not discredit my years of working out. I get up 5 days a week at 6am to train. Please stop with your assumptions,” she wrote. “I guess new year still means mean people.”

Kardashian has long been candid about her workout journey, even helming the short-lived reality TV series Revenge Body to inspire others’ weight loss progress.

“It’s not about the workout itself, it’s about the intensity. They both go for it and they give everything to their workouts,” personal trainer Gunnar Peterson exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2022 of training both the Strong Looks Better Naked author and her sister Kim Kardashian. “That’s why the family is successful. … People don’t realize that they’re super hard workers and if you put that work ethic toward anything and you’re