{"id":106966,"date":"2025-08-30T04:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106966\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:05:11","slug":"i-had-never-hated-my-body-until-ozempic-culture-took-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106966\/","title":{"rendered":"I had never hated my body \u2014 until Ozempic culture took over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five months later, semaglutide injections under the name \u2018Wegovy\u2019 were approved for use in the UK, followed by a similar drug, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/lifestyle\/wellness\/weight-loss-tips-health-wellness-ozempic-b1207658.html\" title=\"Seven simple ways to lose weight (without taking Mounjaro)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mounjaro (tirzepatide)<\/a>, which was approved one month later. Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/health\/mounjaro-halted-uk-drugmaker-b1244784.html\" title=\"Mounjaro weight loss jab sales are halted in the UK as drugmaker looks to beat price rise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent price hike<\/a>, users of Mounjaro will be expected to shell out \u00a3330 a month from September. Meanwhile, Ozempic shortages in the US have seen consumers face prices of $1,600 (\u00a31,183) a month \u2014 and they\u2019ve paid it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five months later, semaglutide injections under the name \u2018Wegovy\u2019 were approved for use in the UK, followed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60896,49,48,60897,84,48331,377,2095],"class_list":{"0":"post-106966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-body-positivity","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-florence-given","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-kardashians","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-ozempic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}