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Fat Joe admitted that he uses Ozempic as part of changes in his lifestyle that’s helped him lose weight.
Veteran rapper Fat Joe has gone on the record to admit that he uses the weight-loss drug Ozempic, explaining that it is part of his journey toward better health overall. The Bronx, New York artist spoke candidly about it while being interviewed as part of the promotion for the 2024 BET Awards last week. “Ozempic says you may only have two pieces of your favorite stuff,” he joked, referring to carbohydrates. Fat Joe said that he’s been taking Ozempic since he has been dealing with diabetes from an early age.
The “All The Way Up” rapper is one of the few who’s been open about the drug but says that a major part of his losing close to 200 pounds has been adjusting his diet. “We just try to eat everything with the least carbs as possible,” Fat Joe said. “So we try to stay away from the bread, the pasta, the rice. That’s the smartest way to eat.” He noted that having carbohydrates is necessary, and that portion control was important.
“Like this morning I ate breakfast, I had this toast. I cut the corner off, ate it and kept it moving,” he stated. “Normally I would’ve ate [sic] the whole thing. But you know, that’s what we do. We cut carbs and try to be smarter.” The 54-year-old also joked that he wasn’t going to be changing his name anytime soon, at the behest of his wife, Lorena Cartagena. “My wife would kill me. She likes me being a big boy,” he joked. “She hallucinates like I’m still that big boy. She loves that.”
Fat Joe has become a figure that’s known to prioritize health, recently being the face of a new advertisement for the Power To The Patients healthcare advocacy group.“If you’re not advocating for prices and transparency in healthcare, you are compromising every single American across this country,” he says in the new commercial. “Because when we can’t see prices — hospitals, insurance, and their middlemen charge us whatever they want. Our very own healthcare system is robbing all of us. We just need the prices. That’s how our economy works!!!”
