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Actress Barbie Ferreira, best known for starring alongside Zendaya in Euphoria, made heads turn with her recent weight loss transformation. The 27-year-old actress gained attention in July 2024 for sharing a series of pictures on Instagram showcasing her apparent weight loss.
While many fans appreciated the actress's new look, several others speculated if she allegedly used the weight loss drug Ozempic. One X user pointed out its alleged prevalence in Hollywood by tweeting:
"Ozempic got a choke hold on the entire industry"
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However, many X users defended the use of Ozempic to achieve one's weight loss goals.
"Even if she is on Ozempic... so what? Why is that seen as a bad thing? She wanted to get smaller and she did. Why should I matter how she got there?," one user replied.
"What's the big deal with using ozempic?," another user pointed out.
"Even if it is, it is helping cure the obesity pandemic that has taken over this country! God bless Ozempic!" tweeted one user.
Meanwhile, other X users came to the actress's defense and pointed out that she may have lost weight by following a regimented diet and exercise routine.
"not everything is ozempic," wrote one user.
"Dude it’s been years since she film the last euphoria season. She’s had time to work out and eat right," another user mentioned.
"She slayed in both before and after," one user commented.
It must be noted that Barbie Ferreira has not admitted to using Ozempic or shared details about her fitness regime at the time of writing.
Barbie Ferreira and other celebrities who have undergone weight loss transformations
Barbie Ferreira joins a long list of celebrities who have undergone weight loss transformations in recent years. Rebel Wilson, Ice Spice, Kelly Clarkson, Lizzo, and Oprah Winfrey have showcased slimmer physiques after significant weight loss.
Barbie's sudden weight loss surprised fans as she had advocated for body positivity from the start of her modeling career in 2013. In 2016, she appeared in an unretouched campaign for Aerie, an intimate apparel brand, which went viral.
The model-turned-actress spoke about being a role model for body positivity in an interview with British Vogue in July 2020:
"Stepping into a career that has historically had rigid standards of beauty, people definitely projected me as this body-positive activist and I owned that in the beginning."
She further added:
"But over the years, I’ve found my own version of that, where it’s not just about size. Now I’m kind of more like, ‘Let’s just shake this whole thing up.’ There’s this predestined fantasy in Hollywood and fashion that I’d literally love to see broken down so that anyone who is different can find their space in there."
Barbie Ferreira played Kat Hernandez in Euphoria
Barbie Ferreira rose to prominence playing the hyper-se*ualized high school student Kat Hernandez in the first two seasons of Euphoria. She appeared in 16 episodes of the teen drama series between 2019 and 2022.
Barbie opened up about leaving Euphoria during her appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard in April 2023. She said her exit was mutually decided as she wanted her character to be more than just the "fat best friend."
"I don’t think there was a place for [Kat] to go. I think there were places she could have gone. I just don’t think it would have fit into the show. I don’t know if it was going to do her justice, and I think both parties knew that. I really wanted to be able to not be the fat best friend. I don’t want to play that, and I think they didn’t want that either."
Post Euphoria, Barbie Ferreira has starred in films like Jordan Peele's sci-fi horror Nope, the comedy-drama Bob Trevino Likes It, and the supernatural thriller House of Spoils.
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