Watch:Rosie O’Donnell Details How 60-Lb. Weight Loss, Facelift Changed Her Life
Now and then Rosie O’Donnell reflects on her new look.
The Emmy winner shared insight into how her recent weight loss, as well as her subsequent facelift, has shifted her life for the better.
“Mounjaro changed my life,” O’Donnell told People of her experience with the weight loss drug in an interview published July 21. “I couldn’t even pronounce it at first.”
But after a health diagnosis, the Now and Then actress—mom to kids Parker, 31, Chelsea, 28, Blake, 26, and Vivienne, 23, with ex-wife Kelli Carpenter as well as 13-year-old Clay with late ex-wife Michelle Rounds—knew it was time to take the reins when it came to managing her health.
“I started three years ago when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes,” she recalled. “I was stunned at how it quieted the food noise. I’ve had trouble with my weight my whole life. I know the shame and humiliation dealt to people who are overweight.”
“My kids would come home from trick-or-treating with pillowcases full of candy and hide it,” she added. “Smart children. I’d wake up at three in the morning and go, ‘There’s a Nestlé’s Crunch bar somewhere.’ I couldn’t help myself.”
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Following her 60-pound weight loss, it’s the small moments where she realizes the difference not only in her physical appearance but her emotional well-being.
“It’s very strange to just buy a pair of jeans that fit,”The Rosie O’Donnell Show alum she said. “When I would do late-night, my biggest concern wasn’t my set—it was, ‘Did I look fat?’”
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Even with her insecurities, the 64-year-old wishes she “could have enjoyed the size I was,” adding, “I’m now at that same weight. But I feel much healthier, more powerful in my own physicality.”
That weight loss journey also led her to another life-changing procedural. O’Donnell noticed she had an excess in loose skin, particularly around her chin area. Noting it made her “look sad,” the comedian knew she wanted to make a change.
“I didn’t want my face to be frozen,” she explained. “I had to wrestle with myself because as a feminist I always felt this is the male gaze and not anything I believe in.”
Realizing she’s in a league of her own, O’Donnell had a change of heart
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As she put it, “The real power of feminism [is] to decide what we want to do with our bodies and when.”
As for why she’s decided to be so open about the procedure?
“I didn’t make it public until everyone started saying, ‘You look so much better. What are you doing?’” she recalled. “I didn’t want to be one of those people who says, ‘Oh, nothing.’”
She has also been candid about the treatment’s massive price tag.
“So why do I look like this?” she added. “$90,000. I was worried about the cost. I don’t like to waste money. I would never spend that on a car.”
And while she’s not afraid to detail her cosmetic enhancements, there are a few natural changes she’s been able to celebrate as she enters her mid-60s.
“It’s glorious,” she said. “When you’re 40 or 30, you’re worried all the time—am I doing it right? Now I don’t really care.”
For more stars who have detailed their weight loss journeys, read on…
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“I knew I could perform as good as anybody and put on a good show and write songs that I felt like people would enjoy,” he said on a February 2026 episode of The New York Times’ Popcast podcast. “That was one of my biggest fears is like, ‘Man, maybe I don’t get a shot just because of the way I look.’”
And though Luke described his fitness journey as “this puzzle I can’t figure out,” he is against using GLP-1 medication to help him lose weight.
“That stuff scares me more than I would enjoy the benefits,” he explained. “I will [lose the weight], but I’m not going to do it the short way.”
He concluded, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that. That’s a personal choice. Just for me, I need to win the thing. I need to beat myself.”
“I did, this summer, lose a good chunk of weight by micro-dosing a GLP-1,” the 57-year-old revealed in September 2025 during an episode of his SiriusXM Andy Cohen Live radio show. “I was really unhappy with my weight. My doctor and I talked about this last year, had recommended a GLP-1 a few times to not only address what I was feeling about my weight, but treat plaque in my arteries and high blood pressure. This is a medication that actually is beneficial to a lot of elements of health and I finally said ‘yes.'”
“I have to say, it really helped me with cravings,” he continued, “which I was having a very hard time with, and really forcing myself to be more disciplined with my diet and with working out.”
“I did this publicly for a reason,” Jelly Roll said on his wife Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde. “I want to be honest about my struggles with it with people.”
“What I want the world to know and I want the people to see, he continued, “is that I didn’t become successful because of my weight, I became successful in spite of it.”
She is a Texas girlie after all, “so I like meat—sorry, vegetarians in the world!”
The mom to River and Remington is also enjoying exploring her new life in NYC. “Walking in the city is quite the workout,” she added. “And I’m really into infrared saunas right now. And I just got a cold plunge because everybody wore me down.”
Not in her tool kit: The weight loss drug du jour. “My doctor chased me for like two years and I was like, ‘No, I’m afraid of it. I already have thyroid problems,'” she explained on a May 2024 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. “Everybody thinks it Ozempic. It’s not.” Rather, it’s another unnamed medicine, she continued, “Something that aids in helping break down the sugar—obviously my body doesn’t do it right.”
While Winfrey hasn’t named the weight loss medication she’s using, she told People in December, “The fact that there’s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for,” she explained of adding that particular tool to her arsenal. “I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself.”
“Sometimes you think you’re doing the right thing but what you actually need is redirection in order to see growth,” he wrote. While his previous regimen included the occasional hot yoga class with wife Heather Rae El Moussa, the reality star noted that he wasn’t following a particular routine, tracking his protein intake or receiving any sort of guidance.
Enter: nutritionist Sean Torbati. Now, “I’m eating the right food & Hot yoga 1-2 times a week which is so good for my mental & physical state,” the dad of three explained. “It all comes down to motivation and perseverance.”
For him, “Once I realized how BADLY I wanted to feel good and be healthy—for myself, my wife, my kids, and my longevity—was the second I put my head down and got to work!!”
“I weighed almost 300 pounds when I made Till,” she said on the March 19 episode of the daytime talk show. “I had taken all those steroids, I was on all this stuff, and one of the things that’s helped me drop the weight is Mounjaro. That’s what I use.”
“I’ve worked with a dietician, made huge lifestyle changes, started exercising with a trainer and yes, I used science and support (shoutout to Mounjaro!) to help me after my 2nd pregnancy,” she wrote on Instagram in March 2025. “And I’m so glad I did because I feel great.”
And while she noted she had dropped 100 pounds from her previously 385-pound frame, including 50 after mom Barbara “Babs” Thore’s December 2022 death, “I weigh 285 pounds and I have been this weight for almost a year now.”
Bottom line, she continued, “Thank you for the compliments, but I really don’t like obsessing over my body and I don’t like it when others do it either.”
“This is a 150lb body on a 5’4 frame,” the Food Network host wrote, sharing a 2014 bikini photo. “I don’t weigh myself anymore because this is considered overweight by who’s [sic] standards, I don’t know. It’s stupid and I believed them for far too long.”
Fully removed from the pressures of dieting, “I now, finally, know that I am a kind, considerate, funny, thoughtful woman,” she continued. “So please remember, who you are and what your character is, should never be overshadowed by what size you are or how much you weigh. You are enough. Just the way you are.”
As for anyone that might not agree, she summed up, “F–k ‘em.”
His inspiration, he continued, was the daughter he welcomed in 2022: “i guess dad life kicked in and i decided to kick soda, and start eating better so i can be around for a long time for this little angel. next up is smokes and brews, but i like to consider myself a patient man.”
Not that she’s recommending her strict AF approach. “It was a lot of work,” she said. “It was miserable. I was hungry all the time, but I’m really happy with the results.”
His sensible approach—lots of walking and a Mediterranean diet heavy on fish, vegetables and nuts—has helped him maintain a 200-pound weight loss. “It’s a life of rehab,” he admitted to Men’s Health. “But it’s a labor of love.”
“No carbs,” he told Entertainment Tonight of his winning formula that also included a lot of daily cardio. “I have cheated a couple times, but basically no carbs, not even a cracker. No bread at all. No pizza, nothing. No corn, no beans, no starches of any kind. Egg whites in the morning or like, Greek yogurt, cut some fruit.”
And to wash it all down, “I don’t drink anything but water,” he said. “No coffee, no tea, no soda.”
“Some people take small things for granted,” Slaton explained in a February TikTok. “Like being able to buckle a seatbelt and not have to use an extender. It’s big for me. Because I hadn’t been able to do that stuff in years.”
Now, continued the reality star, “I’m more or less like giving myself a pat on the back for achieving something and doing it. Getting the weight off and living. That’s what I’m doing. I can finally say I’m living life.”
“I just think it’s important to show him a healthy routine,” said the future star of The Valley. “Working out is so important to me and for my mental health. I just think that being involved in a good healthy journey is super important for me.”
“I’m really proud of my journey,” the star told People in 2023. “Fitness has become a part of my lifestyle. I’ve been disciplined and committed to working out on a regular basis and investing in my health.”
And with all the work she’s been putting in, she continued, “I might have to drop a Hottie Bootcamp sometime soon.” A little sample: A heart-pounding mix of deadlifts, jump-roping, forward lunges and mountain climbers. “This s–t burn like a motherf–ker,” she said in one video. “But I know you see them thighs popping.”
Workout plans were tossed out the window along with her long-held “everything in moderation” way of eating. Having slid from the first few months of postpartum into the free-for-all that was 2020 “eating 100 percent s—ty food” had taken a toll and she missed feeling good about her body.
Approached with the idea of signing on for Openfit’s 4 Weeks of Focus with trainer Kelsey Heenan, she was pumped but skeptical.
After four straight weeks kicking off her mornings with lemon-infused warm water and a 30-minute sweat session (“It included HIIT, it included cardio, it included strength training,” she said of the varied full-body routines) and recommitting to healthy meal choices (“If I want pizza, I’ll have pizza and dump some spinach on it”) she was a convert. “I was like, ‘Hoooooly…’ you know,” she admitted. “I’ve been active my entire life. I have never lifted a 40-pound weight, lifted a 50-pound.”
“I have to keep reminding myself progress is progress, no matter how small,” she noted. “I just know I worked really hard this week. But it’s OK, because I didn’t gain all that weight overnight, I’m not gonna lose it overnight either. So keep going, no matter what.”
Because she knows all of her health goals are within reach. “I will get to wonderland,” she said. “Whether it’s next week or next year, we’re gonna get there, eventually. Keep going, believe in yourself, progress not perfection.”
“I got a nutritionist back in April. I’ve lost 35 lbs,” they shared in an August 2022 TikTok, showing off their body transformation. “Here’s the thing, I wanted to change my body size because of my gymnastics and my career.”
However, they cautioned, don’t assume you’re going to nail that metaphorical aerial on your first try. “It took three weeks before I saw any change,” the Love That Story author admitted. “So, if you’re wanting to make a change, literally three weeks of working out and eating differently before I saw any change.”
“Used to wear a shirt in the pool as a kid so I decided in my late twenties I wanted to change my body and become a meat head,” the actor, wed to model Barbara Palvin, captioned an Instagram post that April. “This is my meat head post.”
Between hitting the weights and the kettlebells, it was “a long slog,” he continued, “but I’m proud of the progress I’ve made and I ain’t done yet.”
With filming committments making it harder to keep up with her grueling boxing and hiking workouts, “I’ve lost focus on my healthy lifestyle,” said Wilson, who’s spoken about the work she’d put in to ditch her emotional eating habits and trade a carb-heavy diet for more protein.
The extra stress leading to extra pounds, “It makes me feel bad about myself,” Wilson admitted, “it shouldn’t…but it does.”
But for Pratt, the toughest part of his 60-pound transformation from Parks and Recreation’s Andy Dwyer to Guardians of the Galaxy superhero was all the water—drinking an ounce a day for every pound he weighed.
“I was peeing all day long, every day,” he explained. “That part was a nightmare,”
“When people heard that I was cast in this movie, I think most people’s reactions were ‘Huh? Paul Rudd as a superhero? Really?’” Rudd admitted to Variety in 2015.
So he knew what he had to do. The ageless star “took the Chris Pratt approach to training for an action movie,” he shared. “Eliminate anything fun for a year and then you can play a hero.”
But first she soaks up every second of the postpartum period. “I always tell mothers, like, that should be the last thing on your mind,” stressed Decker, mom to Vivianne, Eric Jr., Forrest and February 2024 arrival Denver. “After you have a baby, please do not think about trying to lose weight. Just feed your baby. Love on your baby. You have a newborn. Your body is trying to heal. You will know when your body is ready. Don’t listen to your brain telling you, ‘Lose weight, lose weight.’ You’ll know when you physically feel like, ‘Okay, I feel like I’m ready to kind of have that energy and can run around.'”
But completing an ambitious bucket list is really what drives him. “A lot of my life goals outside of acting have to do with the outdoors—I know I want to climb big rock walls in Yosemite, and so, I want to get fit for that,” he explained. “One of my big life goals is to do the Pacific Crest Trail, which is up the coast of America, Mexico to Canada and back.”
And should she find herself struggling, she’s picked up a strategy every bit as important as the workout routine she recommitted herself to postpartum.
“I go and pick up my child,” she told E! News of her “sweet angel” daughter. Staring into Kingsley’s eyes “allows you to be grateful versus kind of nitpicking yourself,” she explained of her strategy. “And so that is one of my hacks that I do because no matter what you put out there, it’s hard not to be self-critical.”
