Mom Dies After Using Ozempic & Saxenda To Lose Weight For Daughter's Wedding
11.11.2023 - 08:15
/ perezhilton.com
A mom in Australia has tragically passed away after using injectables to lose weight ahead of her daughter’s wedding.
On Sunday, a new episode of 60 Minutes Australia dove deep into weight loss drugs and their huge risks. As we’ve all been hearing, popularity for the drug prescribed for diabetes — Ozempic — has grown monumentally as of late. And sadly, Trish Webster is suspected to have died due to complications from the drug and others.
According to her husband Roy Webster, she’d been taking Ozempic and Saxenda for several months because she wanted to fit in a specific dress for her daughter’s wedding. He told The Independent at the time:
Just heartbreaking! The way people, women especially, are made to feel about themselves and their weight is just terrible.
Despite suffering from awful side effects like diarrhea, she continued to use Ozempic — which her family claims her doctor prescribed her. Just like here in the US, though, the injectable is only approved to treat diabetes, not weight loss.
Related: Oprah Winfrey Reveals Why She Won’t Take Ozempic For Weight Loss!
After a few months, Trish swapped from Ozempic to Saxenda, which also regulates the appetite — because she wanted to lose even MORE weight. She suffered even more side effects on top of diarrhea, including vomiting and nausea. The mom reportedly dropped 35 pounds in just five months, but it came at a devastating cost.
On January 16, she stopped breathing. Roy said in his interview with 60 Minutes:
So horrifying…
That night, Trish died due to “acute gastrointestinal illness” which was listed on her death certificate — but her family believes the weight loss drugs played a hand in her passing. Her devastated husband said of her health:
You can see Roy’s