{"id":382408,"date":"2025-08-29T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382408\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:21:13","slug":"i-had-never-hated-my-body-until-ozempic-culture-took-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382408\/","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)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":382409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[24611,132871,105,26222,4326,370,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-body-positivity","9":"tag-florence-given","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-kardashians","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-ozempic","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112030116431160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}