Viewers of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey could have observed Margaret Josephs’ slimmer determine on season 13 of the Bravo hit — and she or he’s lastly revealing her weight reduction secrets and techniques.
Josephs informed Insider in April 2023 that she takes GLP-1 agonist injections.
“I take them as a shot as soon as every week, and that helps you shed extra pounds and improves your metabolism,” she mentioned, noting that she’s not on Ozempic however declining to disclose the title of the drug. “Everyone seems to be like, ‘Marge, you look nice,’ though a few of my costars assume a few of my weight reduction shouldn’t be an amazing thought. However I feel it’s ridiculous. I feel it’s no matter works for me.”
She continued: “I wasn’t aware of GLP-1s once I began taking them. However so far as I used to be involved, it’s a peptide that’s already in your physique, and it evens out your blood sugar.”
Throughout a chat with Individuals that very same month, Josephs famous that she’d dropped 22 kilos since 2022.
“I’m 126 kilos now, give or take a pound relying on the day — and I haven’t been that weight since I received married the primary time in 1994,” she informed the outlet. “My swelling has gone down in my arm. My pores and skin’s gotten tighter. My bones stronger. I’m sleeping higher, I’ve extra power. To not get into the soiled particulars, however I’m excellent sexually, because of the hormones. And I’m again to a weight that feels pure for me. So, it’s all been very optimistic for me. I really feel nice; greater than something, I really feel nice.”
Josephs, who was beforehand married to ex Jan Josephs from 1994 to 2013, has been married to Joseph Benigno for a decade.
“There’s just one downside. Joe is definitely upset I’ve misplaced these 20 kilos,” she quipped on the time. “Joe likes to sleep with a meaty woman, and I had a breast discount and now my boobs are tiny, my butt’s tiny — I’m not his best physique sort anymore! Too unhealthy, Joe!”
Josephs added that she’d “by no means been so wholesome,” explaining: “I went to my common physician, they have been like, ‘That is the very best your blood work has ever seemed!’ I received the highest fee on my life insurance coverage. It’s actually been unbelievable.”
Whereas her costar Jackie Goldschneider, who has been open about fighting an consuming dysfunction for many years, slammed the development of dropping weight reduction medicine in February 2023, solid member Dolores Catania confessed she additionally had assist dropping weight.
“I wasn’t going to return to the reunion trying any greater than anybody else, so I received on the bandwagon,” Catania mentioned on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen in April 2023, including that she was “truly [taking] Mounjaro,” which she referred to as “one other half” of the Ozempic umbrella. “[I’m] simply not hungry [on it].”
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