Kyle Richards’ daughter, Sophia Umansky, responded to criticism over taking the weight-loss drug Mounjaro after displaying off her dramatic hair loss.
“People who find themselves telling me that I don’t must be on it, they don’t know what they’re speaking about. They’re not docs,” the fact star advised Folks on Saturday.
“I feel everybody must relax and reside their very own lives. And honesty will get you far in life and mendacity will not be enjoyable. It’s not good.”
Umansky, 25, shared that folks can’t “decide” or “hate” her as a result of she was the one who uncovered that she had been taking the Sort II diabetes drug and is “proudly owning it.”
“It’s like, ‘Okay, nicely, I advised you that. I’m proudly owning it.’ I feel it’s advantageous. And I all the time say I’m on Mounjaro. I clearly discuss to a physician,” she added.
The “Shopping for Beverly Hills” alum shared that Richards, 56, is supportive of her and her sister’s choices.
“I’m 25 years outdated, so I’m an grownup, I can do what I would like,” she mentioned. “And naturally we’ve steering from our mother.”
Umansky continued, “She wasn’t saying like, ‘Oh, you have to be on this treatment.’ Undoubtedly not saying that.”
“I feel she was positively making an attempt to veer me away from getting on this treatment, however as soon as I spoke to docs and she or he noticed that that’s the trail I needed to take, she was very supportive.”
The influencer additionally shared that she doesn’t wrestle with “physique dysmorphia” and believes she is “cute each methods.”
“I feel I used to be cute earlier than and I’m cute now,” she added. “There’s nothing flawed with making an attempt to really feel a bit bit extra assured, a bit bit cuter.”
“Folks get labored on on a regular basis, they get filler, they get Botox, they do all totally different sorts of issues. So if I need to really feel a bit cuter, why not?”
Umansky spoke out after revealing she began taking Mounjaro earlier this yr and had been shedding hair ever since.
“I’m gonna be bald in a few week,” she mentioned by way of TikTok, revealing the clumps of hair which have fallen out within the bathe.
Richards shares Sophia, Alexia Simone Umansky, 28, and Portia Umansky, 17, along with her estranged husband, Mauricio Umansky. She’s additionally the mom to Farrah Brittany Aldjufrie, 36.
