Lottie Moss rushed to emergency hospital after Ozempic overdose

The younger sister of Kate Moss is speaking out against using Ozempic for weight loss after a harrowing experience with the medication.

Kate Moss’ younger sister is speaking out against using Ozempic after she was hospitalised following an overdose.

Lottie Moss, 26, became violently ill, suffering a seizure and severe dehydration after taking the drug when she weighed around 60kg.

The model has now said she would rather “die” than use Ozempic again, which is meant to treat obese people or diabetics and has since suffered global shortages.

In Australia, the drug is only approved to be used for the treatment of diabetes, not weight loss.

Lottie described the seizure, triggered by severe dehydration, as one of the most frightening experiences she has ever faced, especially with her face and hands clenching up.

She said there were, “small things I wish I’d known before taking it” after her weight plummeted to around 53kg in a few weeks.

After consulting with medical professionals, Lottie discovered that the Ozempic dosage she was injecting was meant for someone weighing at least 100 kilograms — almost twice her own weight.

“A few months ago, I was not feeling happy about my weight, I had a friend, and she could get it for me,” she said on her podcast Dream On.

“It was below board, from a doctor, but it wasn’t like you go into a doctor’s office and he prescribes it for you, takes your blood pressure, and takes tests, which is what you need when you go on something like Ozempic.

“At the end of the day it is a medication, it is dangerous and really meant for weight loss of people of a very large size.

“When I was taking it, the amount that I was taking was meant for people who are 100 kilos and over and I’m in the 50s range.

“It’s these small things I wish I’d known before taking it. But I took it, you inject it into your leg, and it was the worst decision I ever made.

“This is a warning to everyone. Please, if you’re thinking of taking it, do not take it, it’s so not worth it.”

Lottie also recalled the “horrible” experience which saw her close friend hold down her feet as she contorted on the hospital floor.

She said the nurse who treated her was shocked to learn the high dosage she had been taking and the amount of weight lost during a short period.

“The nurse asked how much weight I’d lost in two weeks and I told her …. She sent me to the emergency room, and I got wheelchaired through the hospital,” she said.

“At one point, I went to the bathroom, and I felt really sick, I felt like I was going to pass out, I thought something was happening, I didn’t feel good.

“My friend Reece had to hold my feet down and it was just so scary, the whole situation, I didn’t know what was going on.”

Her sister supermodel Kate, 50, was the poster girl for “heroin chic” in the 1990s due to her slim frame and once famously declared, “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

Lottie has previously discussed her experiences growing up in the “toxic” fashion industry and her time in rehab for drug addiction.

She began modelling at 16, after being discovered at 13, and has shared that she often felt overshadowed by her sister Kate.

The star reveals she faced ridicule for eating during fashion shoots and was told by her modelling agency that she wouldn’t get the chance to walk in runway shows unless she had a 23-inch waist.

Hearing comments about her body and being dubbed the “ham and cheese sandwich girl” on set was deeply traumatic for Lottie.

Over the past couple of years, the skyrocketing popularity of the diabetic drugs has seen Australians admitted into emergency over their misuse.

Novo Nordisk advised Australia’s medicines watchdog TGA that Ozempic supply will remain limited for the rest of 2024.

Ozempic is only approved to be used for the treatment of diabetes in Australia, not weight loss.

Originally published as Lottie Moss rushed to emergency hospital after Ozempic overdose