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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Barbra Streisand ‘forgot the world is reading’ when she asked | |
Melissa McCarthy if she took Ozempic on Instagram | |
By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN | |
Updated: | |
6:40 PM EDT, Tue April 30, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
is addressing a divisive comment she wrote under a photo that actor | |
Melissa McCarthy posted on her Instagram page on Monday. | |
In the comment, Streisand asked McCarthy if she took – a popular | |
weight loss medication, among its other functions – spurring backlash | |
online. | |
In a posted to her social media on Tuesday, Streisand wrote that she | |
initially opened up her Instagram to look at photos of the she’d | |
received for her birthday last week. | |
“Below them was a photo of my friend Melissa McCarthy who I sang with | |
on my Encore album,” she wrote. “She looked fantastic! I just | |
wanted to pay her a compliment. I forgot the world is reading!” | |
CNN has reached out to representatives for McCarthy and Streisand for | |
comment. | |
In the photo, McCarthy posed with director Adam Shankman at the Center | |
Theater Group Gala that they attended together over the weekend. | |
“Give him my regards did you take Ozempic?” Streisand’s original | |
comment, which has since been deleted, read. | |
Streisand’s question about Ozempic sparked in the comments section, | |
with many users coming to McCarthy’s defense. | |
Originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes, Ozempic and other | |
similar medications have become for the dramatic weight loss they can | |
help people achieve. | |
Ozempic is a brand name for the generic drug semaglutide, and is | |
approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat diabetes. The� | |
of the drug include headaches and gastrointestinal issues. | |
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