Shaughna Phillips addresses Ozempic allegations with telling six-word statement

Love Island star Shaughna Phillips, who shot to fame on the 2020 winter series of the ITV2 show, has addressed her incredible five and a half stone weight loss amid Ozempic allegations

Shaughna Phillips is currently in the best shape of her life after completely overhauling her lifestyle, diet, and exercise regime - but the former Love Island star cannot seem to escape the 'Ozempic allegations'.

Mum-of-one Shaughna, 30, appeared on season six of Love Island back in 2020 when the very first winter series aired amid the pandemic. The reality TV star was a huge inspiration to thousands of women as she became one of the first cast members to show off what the public deemed as a 'real body'.

In previous seasons before Shaughna's appearance on the show, viewers had become increasingly fed up with the lack of body diversity - as well as racial diversity - with the majority of the islanders showing off gym-honed figures, tiny waists, ample assets, and cosmetic work.

While Shaughna was by no means overweight, it was the first time that female viewers saw a woman who looked like them represented on the reality TV show - something which she is incredibly proud of after her rocky journey. For the first time, women over sizes 6 and 8 felt seen because of Shaughna, but unfortunately, not everyone was pleased to see the newfound body diversity represented.

When she ultimately left the villa, after a brief but strong connection with Callum Jones, the London-born reality TV star was hit with a harsh reality as she realised that the public had been berating her due to her to figure. Now, five years on from her life-changing stint on Love Island, Shaughna looks like a completely different person. After losing over five and a half stone, she has never felt more confident and content in her body - but the mum-of-one is still dealing with hateful comments - this time, for being too 'skinny'.

After dropping almost six stone in weight, the reality TV star launched a fitness and nutrition website – Shaughna’s Shred-It Plan – to share the secrets of her jaw dropping transformation. However, some Love Island fans are convinced that Shaughna succeeded in her incredible transformation thanks to the help of Ozempic.

Now widely used among celebrities in a bid to shed the pounds, Ozempic is a weekly injection that can help with weight loss in some people. It's main purpose is to help those living with type 2 diabetes, however, it has quickly become a tool for celebrities including Rebel Wilson and Oprah to completely transform their figures in a short space of time.

Addressing the Ozempic allegations, Shaughna exclusively told The Mirror: "I love food way too much," to ever even consider suppress her appetite with a 'fad' like Ozempic. "There's a new fad every other year. It just so happens that this is the fad this time around, and after I have lost weight. The thing is, it just coincided with the time when I had my daughter Lucia, and I had this baby weight and everyone was commenting on it. Had it of been a few years prior, everyone would have been saying I had a BBL, or some magical liposuction that completely transformed how I looked," she shared.

"We're in the Ozempic season at the moment, and I can't help how people perceive me. I believe that Ozempic is an appetite suppressant, and those are not new. It's just essentially a new name for something that gives the same results. This has been something that has been around for 20 or 30 years - it's just another pharmaceutical company that have been able to market it in this new way and everyone is freaking out over it. In a couple of years time it will be something else, mark my words.

“I love my food too much and would be terrified by the idea of all those side effects” says Shaughna who recently admitted to suffering from persistent health anxiety. “I did it the safe way by finding an eating and exercise plan that worked. So no drugs, no gastric band, no quick fixes." Lifting the lid on her exciting new venture, she told us: "My followers know I’ve struggled with my weight and body image for years, so when they saw I’d finally found a way of managing my relationship with food and exercise, they started to message me constantly – literally on a daily basis, begging to know how I’d done it."

Her wake-up call came with a routine body scan and being told that she was clinically obese and had visceral fat around her organs. “It was such a shock and really made me think about what kind of role model I wanted to be for Lucia.” A thought that is especially poignant because Shaughna lost her own father to pancreatic cancer when she was just 21 years old. “I just want to be as healthy as I can so that I’m around to be a mum to Lucia for as long as possible."

Also by this stage Shaughna was feeling so self conscious that she had become virtually agoraphobic. “I felt so ashamed of how I looked that I couldn’t face going out of the house – even to take Lucia out in the pram. And that really made me think “this can’t go on. Lucia’s only a baby now but what about when she’s running around and I still feel like I can’t go to the park with her?”

Shaughna’s Shred-it online fitness platform is available now. Priced £49.00.

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