Amy Schumer Says Shedding Weight with Mounjaro Has Been a ‘Actually Good Expertise’

Amy Schumer says she is having “a very good expertise” taking a brand new weight reduction drug.

In an Instagram video she filmed from the motive force’s seat of her automotive, the actress and comic, 43, mentioned she needed to “hold it 100” together with her followers about her weight reduction journey. The Life & Beth star shared that she had beforehand tried to shed pounds with Wegovy three years in the past, however skilled disagreeable signs.

“I used to be like puking, I couldn’t deal with it. I don’t know in the event that they’ve modified the system, no matter,” she recalled.

The comic continued to elucidate that after that have, she scheduled a telehealth appointment and was prescribed two hormones, estrogen and progesterone, for her perimenopause signs. She mentioned she additionally started utilizing Mounjaro, a GLP-1 drug for sort 2 diabetes that can be typically prescribed for weight reduction.

Schumer mentioned that mixed, all of her new medicines have yielded constructive outcomes. “My signs of being in perimenopause have disappeared. My hair is fuller, my pores and skin is best, I’ve extra vitality. I need to ‘get down’ extra, if what I imply,” the Kinda Pregnant star mentioned from behind the wheel, rapidly clarifying, “I am speaking about intercourse.”

“So, yeah, that is been nice. Mounjaro’s been nice,” Schumer continued. She famous for followers that Mounjaro is often not lined by insurance coverage except one is identified with diabetes or — as she joked — “extreme weight problems, which many of the Web thinks I’ve.”

“However I am having a very good expertise, so I needed to maintain it actual with you about that,” she added.

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Schumer additionally gave a shout-out to Midi Well being, which prescribed the medicines for her.

“I favored it a lot, and it was such a great expertise that I invested within the firm,” she shared in her video. The digital care clinic for ladies additionally boasts different superstar traders, together with Connie Britton, clothier Tory Burch, soccer star Brandi Chastain and Sandberg Bernthal Enterprise Companions, a enterprise capital fund run by former Meta CEO Sheryl Sandberg and her husband, per Fortune.

Whereas sharing her expertise with Mounjaro, Schumer joked that one factor she’s going to by no means do is alter her lips.

“I need to decide to you that I’ll by no means get lip fillers, so you possibly can at all times take pleasure in that I’ve no high lip.” the star mentioned, trying into her rear view mirror.