Kathy Bates Fires Back at Weight Loss Critics

Kathy Bates is defending her weight loss journey.

Over the past seven years, the 77-year-old Oscar-winning actress has lost 100 pounds in effort to manage her Type 2 diabetes .

Kathy previously shared that the first 80 pounds were shed through lifestyle changes and diet and the last 20 pounds were thanks to Ozempic .

While speaking to Variety , Kathy clapped back at people criticizing how she lost weight.

“People say, ‘Well, it was the Ozempic,’” Kathy started. “F–k you, it was the Ozempic! It took me years to do this. I got this diagnosis about diabetes — my father died of it; his mother died of it; one of my sisters is in peril. When they said ‘diabetes,’ I figured out what to do to slowly, over years, to lose the weight.”

“And then when Ozempic came along, I was ab