Sharon Osbourne might be known for nursing her rocker husband Ozzy through periods of rehabilitation over the years, but the 70-year old has had to endure her own share of health battles too.
The former X Factor judge shocked fans recently after appearing dangerously gaunt during an interview in which she admitted she’s been using the controversial slimming drug, Ozempic amid a two-stone weight loss. Sharon even confessed to skipping meals “at least three days a week” in her family’s Osbourne’s Podcast.
Mrs O said last week that struggles with her weight have left her “depressed” as she told TalkTV: “I’m 70, I have fought weight my entire life.” She continued: “It’s affected my life to such a point. I had the gastric band, and had that removed, because it didn’t work after a while. I then had the sleeve and you can’t reverse the sleeve because they cut your stomach in half.”
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Ahead of her 71st birthday on Monday, we look back at other health issues that have sadly plagued her over the years.
Cancer
Back in July 2002 just as MTV’s The Osbournes was peaking in popularity, Sharon was given just a one-in-three chance of beating colon cancer, but remarkably insisted filming continued on the second series of reality show. Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy later admitted that he “fell apart during her treatment.
Thankfully, she pulled through after bouts of chemotherapy to treat the disease, which had also spread to her lymph nodes. It prompted kind Sharon to establish the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, as well as fronting a Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign in 2013 with her daughter, Kelly. It followed a double mastectomy in November 2012, which Sharon underwent voluntarily after learning she had a gene that increases the risk of developing breast cancer.
Speaking in 2020, meanwhile, she explained that she has always tried to make the most of her life since being given the all-clear. “One of the things I have learned is that I live every day as if it is my last,” she declared. “I don’t save. I do whatever I want to do because I have learned that life is so precious, so short that one day you wake up and boom – it is gone. So I always live every day to the fullest.”
Covid
In December 2020 Sharon took to social media to reveal she had secretly been hospitalised with Covid. Insisting she was on the mend, she told her fans that following her discharge she was recuperating away from Ozzy, who suffers from Parkinson’s.
18 months later, meanwhile, the virus struck again leaving Sharon in an even worse state than her previous experience. Revealing she caught the virus after flying home to LA to care for husband Ozzy – who had contracted Covid himself – she shared a picture of herself on social media in bed with her pet dogs, television remotes and an intravenous drip connected to her arm.
In true Sharon fashion, she simply wrote “F*** Covid.”
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Bulimia
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Also in 2022, mother of three Sharon spoke openly about her battle with bulimia, a condition she’s been living with for a number of years. Talking to the Times, Sharon said she can empathise with those who are unhappy with their bodies due to her condition.
She said candidly: “It’s horrific. I used to eat and eat and eat. It was part of my shield. I felt that the less attractive and the bigger I was gave me strength. It’s weird but that’s how I felt.”
She added: “Do I accept it? Do I like it? No, I have the worst acid reflux in the entire world.” And addressing the matter much earlier in 2009, she admitted: “If I’m honest, I don’t think I’ll ever be totally free from that. It was a way to fend off rejection: you’ll never want me, look how fat I am. I’ll be the fat, funny one.”
Bulimia typically effects people who “eat a lot of food in a very short amount of time (binge eating) and then make themselves sick,” according to the NHS.
If you’re worried about your health or the health of somebody else, you can contact SEED eating disorder support service on 01482 718130 or on their website, https://seedeatingdisorders.org.uk.
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