Ozempic, Hollywood and the new war on weight: what lies behind the wonder drug

As Ozempic reshapes bodies and expectations, a new book probes the science, profits and risks behind the global weight-loss boom

What is currently afoot across the globe is a mass experiment, by anybody who takes Ozempic, into the safety of this and other weight-loss drugs.

How well everybody looked at the recent Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood. Beautiful people wearing beautiful clothes and smiles that could blind you with their dazzle. But more than any of that, did you notice how thin so many of them were?

Actors have always had to watch their bodyweight, but these days it appears as if many who are well into middle age and beyond manage to pull off wearing bodies that might be fitted onto a young slip of a boy or girl emerging from teenage years. The effect is … well, make up your own mind.