Did Kim Kardashian use Ozempic to lose weight? The words ‘Kim Kardashian’ and ‘Ozempic’ have also been increasingly uttered in the same breath. Per US Vogue, it has been widely speculated that the reality TV star-turned-mogul’s 16-pound weight loss ahead of May’s Met Gala (to, famously, slip into Marilyn Monroe’s dress) was claimed to be enhanced by the drug.

Indeed, the rapid weight loss of Kardashian, and that of her younger sister Khloe, have taken the medication mainstream.

When a controversial New York Post article last month noted the ‘comeback’ of the ‘thin, heroin-chic body of the 1990s and early aughts’ it suggested increasing numbers were turning to ‘suddenly trendy diabetes drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy’.

The swell of interest is evident across Reddit forums and TikTok feeds, where on the latter #ozempic has 589 million views and #wegovy has hit 228 million.