Cheryl Fergison of EastEnders fame has shown off her huge weight loss after taking the weight-loss jab Mounjaro.
The actor, 60, opened up about taking the jab during a recent podcast appearance.
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Cheryl Fergison shows off major weight loss
Speaking on the Secure the Insecure podcast, Cheryl revealed that she was prescribed the jab after being diagnosed as diabetic and obese. She has since lost three stone.
However, she has confessed that she isn’t sure whether it’s worth the toll it’s taking on her body, after seeing her hair fall out in clumps.
“I’m on Mounjaro. It doesn’t really agree with me, so I think I’m going to probably come off it,” she said.
“I was on quite a big dosage. The doctors put me on it because I’m diabetic. I was clinically obese, as they would say. They said this was this wonder drug, and I took it, and then they upped [the dosage] again,” she then continued.
Cheryl Fergison on effects of weight-loss jab
At first, the injection appeared to be working as desired.
“‘It was suppressing my appetite. It stopped me from feeling hunger. I felt full. I realised I wasn’t really eating things I used to enjoy before. I could eat a whole pizza before – now I can only eat a slice,” she explained.
“The side effects are, I think, worse. There are fluids coming out from both ends a lot of the time. I’m sick, I’ve got diarrhoea with it. My hair… I can pull it out in clumps. Luckily, I’ve got a lot of hair. But there’s a lot of stuff I’m not sure about with it. I’m not sure it agrees with me,” she then continued.
Cheryl on recovering after her stroke
Earlier this year, Cheryl suffered a stroke, which initially left her unable to walk or talk.
Speaking on the podcast, Cheryl explained that she’s put on weight since the stroke.
“I’ve probably put on a stone since the stroke, because I was not exercising,” she said. And when I say exercising, I don’t go to the gym – I’d ride my bike and [go] swimming. I haven’t been doing that, so I put another stone on. I don’t walk now as well, because I’m walking with a stick and I walk quite slowly at the moment. That will get better, but I’ve got to listen to my body at the moment,” she then continued.
“It’s hard to listen to my body and do what everybody’s telling me to do with it – take the injection, only eat this, do that – I can’t do everything. I know what I need to do, and I’ve had lots of chats with the Stroke Association and all of my physios and people that come to know what I can cope with and not at the moment,” she said.
“In the beginning, I could only have an hour and a half before I had to go and lay down in a dark room because talking to somebody was really difficult. It was really hard.”
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