Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith has opened up about her brief experience using weight-loss injections, revealing she turned to the popular jab Mounjaro, but found it ineffective, exhausting and ultimately a waste of time.
The 85-year-old food writer and restaurateur told The Times that she tested the prescription drug, also known as Tirzepatide, for two months in hopes of slimming down.
Despite losing her appetite entirely, she said she didn’t shed a single pound.
Prue Leith opens up about experience with weight-loss jabs
“I hated the bloody thing. I took it for two months, lost my appetite completely and didn’t shed an ounce. Nothing. Every day I got on the scales and I still weighed exactly the same as before.”
Mounjaro was originally developed for Type-2 diabetes. It has since become a top name in the world of weight-loss medication, touted for its appetite-suppressing effects. But for Prue, the results were disappointing, and draining.
“I was tired all the time, presumably because I wasn’t eating,” she said, adding that her husband, John Playfair, commented that she looked thinner. “I think [that] means old and scraggy round the face. As soon as I could, I stopped. It was terrible for me.”
While the jab didn’t work for Prue, her husband John had better luck. She revealed he’s lost two stone using the same medication, and with it, his desire to drink. She said he “hardly drinks now” and she’s “a great boozer”.
The couple have been married since 2016, following the death of Prue’s first husband, author Rayne Kruger, in 2002.
Together, they adopted their daughter Li-Da from Cambodia, and had a son, Danny Kruger.
Prue on ‘having it all’
The candid chat comes on the heels of Prue’s recent reflections on balancing motherhood with ambition.
Speaking on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, she said she wouldn’t have been able to build her culinary empire if she had started a family in her twenties.
“I didn’t have my children until I was 34. So I had my business under my belt before I started breeding,” she said. “If we had married that young… I could not possibly have run the restaurant or opened the school. All of that was in 10 years.”
She went on to emphasise the importance of timing and help when trying to ‘have it all’.
“It boils down to getting the help. It isn’t possible to bring up two or three children and have a full-time job without help.”
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