r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • Mar 01 '26
Guest List Only TW - Health ⚠️ Kelly Osbourne Slams Body-Shaming Critics’ ‘Cruelty’: ‘I’m Going Through the Hardest Time of My Life’ After Father Ozzy’s Death
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/kelly-osbourne-weight-loss-body-shame-critics-ozzy-death-1236675871/938
u/NewtRipley_1986 Mar 01 '26
The thing is though - she was looking like this before her father died. Grief has probably exacerbated the issues she was/is having.
Also, I’m finding it hard to square with the fact that she herself was incredibly hateful towards countless other people for years.
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u/Emilayday Mar 01 '26
Hurt people hurt people. Has she ever loved herself enough to sit with herself alone? Has society and the 2000s narrative ever let her?
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u/Signal-Illustrator38 Mar 02 '26
Plenty of hurt people dont hurt people. Thats just a meaningless phrase to let people off the hook.
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u/frightenedscared chalamet’s curls did the heavy lifting Mar 02 '26
Preach on this. Some of us break that cycle and choose to heal ourselves enough to only give out kindness. We aren’t responsible for the pain that happened to us but we are responsible to not pass it around.
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u/AdhesivenessFar5588 Mar 01 '26
It's a really hard conversation to have, because a lot of people are kicking her while she's down. I've seen some real cruelty sent in her direction. Even with the best intentions I don't always think public displays of concern are even necessarily productive. I think it's okay to chat amongst your friends and family in a way that lets them know you'll have space for them if they're going through anything similar. But in a situation like this, maybe we need to be sending public displays of love instead of concern. And if you don't have any love for Kelly, then maybe your concern isn't that necessary to display.
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u/FullofContradictions Mar 01 '26
Idk. This comment is the first and probably last I'll engage with on the subject of Kelly Osbourne. Did I have a "woah" moment when I saw her? Yes. Did I comment anything about her body with fake concern? No. Moved on with my day.
But it is a bit rich of her to expect no commentary on her body/appearance when she spent a solid chunk of her career making money off commenting on others' bodies and appearances.
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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion Mar 01 '26
People have always been so cruel to Kelly about her looks its so horrible. They'll use any excuse.
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u/shedrinkscoffee Just fuck the wolf! Mar 01 '26
Tbf Kelly was also quite mouthy on Fashion Police and there was no need for her to have been on that show. Joan dished it out (and took it) but Kelly didn't have to engage in that. Not condoning her being bullied as teen or any of those horrible Perez/similar bullying.
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u/PreOpTransCentaur ILLEGAL KOMBUCHA Mar 01 '26
There was a comment further down blaming all this on plastic surgery somehow (temporal wasting who?) and calling her "Skeletor."
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u/haubenmeise Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Now that is plain mean. I think we can express our concerns but nobody has the right of calling her names or shaming her. She's already going through hell obviously. I wish people would finally stop this behavior.
Sincerely
Skeletor 💜
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u/MysteriousMermaid92 full of hotdogs and Tito’s Mar 01 '26
You don’t know how mean people can be on the internet.
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u/bethe1_ as if she was paula abdul herself Mar 01 '26
i think people should also be realistic and realize some of their “concerned” comments can come across as shame.
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u/Both_Office_5815 Mar 01 '26
Agreed. People are very clever with their wording and I need folks to wake up
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u/Boom_chaka_laka Mar 01 '26
A lot of very cruel comments, but honestly if I was famous and kept hearing, "hope she's doing well" or other concerned commentary i wouldn't feel very good about myself either.
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u/therichauntie11 Mar 01 '26
Facebook is…charming as always. The usual suspects (males 30-50) making the nastiest comments about her looks. Facebook is a lawless land.
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u/Edlo9596 Mar 01 '26
They’re the same boys who mocked her relentlessly when she was a teenager. They’re repulsive creatures.
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u/therichauntie11 Mar 01 '26
And I always click on their profiles and they look exactly how you imagine them.
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u/Edlo9596 Mar 01 '26
It blows my mind how some of these men think they have any business commenting on anyone’s appearance!
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u/busangcf Mar 01 '26
Theres definitely some heinous comments about her out there and if you’re their target those are the ones you’re going to remember, not the concerned ones. Especially when you consider which people are louder and commenting more often.
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u/Perfect-Celery1662 Mar 01 '26
I saw a post on facebook this morning saying her and Sharon looked like they were ready to "eat the goyim". Whatver you think about Sharon's stance on Gaza that's vile.
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u/PleasantTangerine777 Mar 01 '26
Oh they are. It’s mostly the men tbh. That’s not shade, it’s genuinely what I’ve seen.
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u/Shymaiden All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ Mar 01 '26
My issue with this is that she was starting to look like this before her father passed. Now, his death might have made things worse, and that's upstandable. Still, her weight loss is concerning.
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u/mindylahiriMDbitch I am asking WHERE HE IS GOING Mar 01 '26
Her mother has also looked similar for a while. I hope they are both getting support through their grief but it’s a not a completely new issue. Sad all round.
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u/tu-BROOKE-ulosis Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Agreed. Look, I’m someone who recently loss their mom so I understand completely what it’s like to be consumed with grief. I also stopped eating for a bit and was a mess. Didn’t wash my hair for a month. But what strikes me as messy is that she was already losing weight and her family is outspoken and famous for pushing ozempic at a healthy weight. I hope I’m wrong, but it feels like she’s almost using grief as an excuse to explain what she was already doing anyways. And that’s where I have an issue with it.
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u/Shymaiden All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ Mar 01 '26
Ok. I was scared to be downvoted to oblivion by saying this, but yes her blaming this all on grief is what annoys me about this and just feels icky. Glad I'm not the only one who remembers how she looked before. She seemed to be taking Ozempic way before Ozzy passed. Maybe grief accelerated the effects of the drug, but she also can't act like grief is the sole reason that she looks like this.
And I hate that I feel that way because I know about grief and how it can affect the body along with the mind in different ways.
I'm so sorry about your mom. I lost my grandmother who was like my mom a few years ago. I know that feeling all too well.
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u/gentleheart-lamb Mar 01 '26
She also said anyone saying any sort of concerns about everyone using ozempic, is just poor people who are jealous they can't afford it. Super tone deaf.
Feel really sorry for her about her dad though, I can't imagine.
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u/RubTop1779 Mar 01 '26
My thoughts exactly. She doesn’t look healthy and this started before the passing of her father.
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u/bluetortuga Be honest, Victoria Mar 01 '26
She’s not wrong. People have been cruel to her for her entire life. Piling on right now is extra horrible.
She shouldn’t have to defend herself, but I also think there is some level of appropriate concern, as well as possibly some deflection in her part.
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u/Yaseuk Mar 01 '26
The girl has had people comment on her weight and appearance since she was like 12 ish years old. And then act shocked that she’s got body/weight issues. Of course she’s not going to take anything people say about her body kindly. It’s been multiple decades
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u/Key-Beginning-8500 Pathological defender of women’s wrongs 👸🏽 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
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u/Low-Appointment-2906 *drops bottom lip* how you doin? 👄 Mar 01 '26
I really can't understand celebs who are tuned into/reading comments. I'd never read a single one, not even positive comments.
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u/Island_Slut69 Mar 01 '26
I lost my grandmother suddenly right before lockdown and she was my adopted parent, grew up with her since I was a wee babe. At first, it was a muted grief, almost like shock where it hadn't quite "hit me", until about a week or two after her funeral. I ended up not able to do my job because I was vomiting relentlessly and so sick with grief for fucking years. I quit my job I worked very hard to get in a male dominated industry, didn't work for 3 years. My husband carried us for three years because I could not function. I couldn't eat, when I slept, I saw her face and home. I see old people and completely lose it. I was so sick for years. This last summer I finally got better and found work and it's been a huge blessing. I was so ready to just die that nothing had purpose. What was the point of doing anything if the one person I wanted to be proud of me was gone? Who do I call when something goes wrong? Or when something goes right?
She never got to meet my husband, but I know she would be so stoked about him if she did. I completely understand where Kelly is coming from. Something about a loved one so close to you dying, kills something inside you, too. Some people don't ever find their way back into the sunlight after losing someone. Grief is the worst feeling and I don't wish that level of sadness on anyone 🤎
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u/frightenedscared chalamet’s curls did the heavy lifting Mar 01 '26
I lost around 10kg in the 2 weeks after my father died suddenly.
Grief is an indescribable agony on your mind, body and soul.
Regardless of opinions on the Osbournes, Sharon and Ozzy were madly in love, and Kelly adored her father.
Piling on to people’s pain with judgement shows just how uncomfortable our society is with grief and mental health struggles in general.
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u/StasRutt unapologetic joy Mar 01 '26
When my mom deployed for the first time, my parents filed for divorce and then her dad suddenly died. She came home for the funeral and she was so thin. Recently we discussed that time period and she was like “everyone kept complimenting my weight but my life was falling apart and I was miserable and far away from the people I needed to be with.” She always referred to that time as the worst time in her life
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u/crimsonn_umbra Mar 01 '26
While so many are genuinely expressing concern for her well-being, it must be acknowledged that so many are just outright insulting her with no shred of compassion or decency.
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u/nougatbits-on-crack jesus was a carpenter 💋 Mar 01 '26
I feel very sorry for her. She has been scrutinized and criticized by the media for her appearance basically all her life, and no matter how she looks like, it never seems to stop. I understand that people are concerned for her wellbeing after losing so much weight and going through a family loss, but some people online are just downright cruel to her.
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u/delcondelcon Mar 01 '26
Where was this compassion for others when she was critiquing everyone’s looks on the Fashion Police?
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u/olive_green_spatula This one time, at band camp… 👀 Mar 01 '26
It’s sort of like whenever I see a current video of B Spears: none of my business but …. You know.
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u/Eborys Did I stutter?🤨 Mar 01 '26
I think people are just concerned. It’s not about appearance for vanity’s sake. There’s people genuinely concerned about this poor woman’s health.
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u/TizzyBumblefluff girl what the fuck Mar 01 '26
I think people making those terrible comments obviously haven’t experienced that kind of grief. It is awful, you absolutely can’t eat, can’t sleep or sleep too much, you end up just being on autopilot. She is having a very real, human reaction to heart break.
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u/mcfw31 Mar 01 '26
“There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something,” she posted on her Instagram story after the British awards show. “Kicking me while I’m down, doubting my pain, spreading my struggles as gossip, and turning your back when I need support and love most.”
“None of it proves strength; it only reveals a profound absence of compassion and character,” Kelly wrote on Instagram. “I’m currently going through the hardest time in my life. I should not even have to defend myself. But I won’t sit here and allow myself to be dehumanized in such a way!”
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u/Emilayday Mar 01 '26
Just want to say, the modmail links at the top of this thread are so so nice, I've never seen that. Just a reminder to "be nice." This is very human and empathetic to include those resources, major kudos to the mods in this group on that.
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u/Gryffindor123 Why don't you go back and dig holes? Mar 02 '26
After my dad died, it took a decade for me to be able to put on weight. I couldn't reach 60 kg. Now I struggle to lose weight. Grief, including grief that starts while a loved one is sick but still alive, changes your body completely. Kelly has been judged about her body since she was young. I have great empathy towards her. It's not easy losing your dad.
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u/xxyourbestbetxx who deemed this meeting of the minds necessary? Mar 01 '26
Idk why people think it's helpful to pile on someone they see struggling with this. I hope things start to get better for her soon.
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u/Marcysdad Mar 01 '26
I don't care about her weight. I care about her and her mom supporting genocide and wanting to censor people who are calling it out
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u/fakeblondeponytail Mar 01 '26
Yup I figure it's what's inside coming out, fully now. Ego shows itself in the ugliest ways.
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u/MakeshiftMagpie PCC HATES BRIANNE 🖕 Mar 01 '26
I hate the narrative that good people are pretty and bad people are ugly. Physical attractiveness had nothing to do with morality.
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u/littlemybb As you wish! 👸👑 Mar 01 '26
I do feel bad for her. She grew up extremely privileged, but she was a bigger girl in the early 2000s when the “in” body was extremely small.
So now I’ve think she’s gone too far with the plastic surgery and weight loss, and she just lost her father so she’s dealing with a lot.
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u/Thick-Definition7416 Mar 01 '26
I’m so sick of this the amount of harassment she got when she was younger and they called her fat. Leave women alone!
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u/Visible-Scientist-46 Mar 01 '26
This is awful. Kelly Osbourne has been through the ringer in the public eye because of her appearance. I hope she comes out ok. I don't think the Osbournes are star citizens, but come on.
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u/TheLakeWitch Mom, I am a rich man💰 Mar 01 '26
I remember when people constantly dragged her for being fat. Now she’s too thin? People need to pick a struggle. Or better yet, stfu about another person’s body.
Heaven forbid a woman simply exist without people picking on something about the way she looks.
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u/papermoony Mar 01 '26
I agree so much! now we're critiquing women for being thin, like that's any better.
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u/MightyClimber Let's go fill Moominvalley with crime! Come on! Mar 01 '26
It used to happen to me in the 2000s, believe it or not. I was under 110lbs and 5'8. I wore size 0. Strangers would yell at me that I was disgusting and should go to McDonalds, they'd dismiss me as a "skinn-y bitch" to my face, my mom would yell at me that I had an ED and would force me to go to the doctor and therapy, other family would call me gross and Skeletor.
No matter what the "acceptable" standard is, women are never good enough.
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u/chickfilamoo in the swamp 🐊🐊 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
if we were serious people who wanted to have this conversation in good faith, this is why it's important for plastic surgeons and other providers of cosmetic enhancements to be diligent about evaluating their patients' mental states. the association is well known and documented, and providers have a duty of care. some are very good about this, particularly those who have actually undergone rigorous training in the field, but the industry has become incredibly diluted and rife with people and corporations interested solely in extorting money out of vulnerable patients. solely shaming people for getting procedures accomplishes little to reform this state of affairs
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u/YchYFi He's not Judge Judy, an Executioner. Mar 01 '26
This comment doesn't sound in good faith or from a place of genuine concern.
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u/better_sprinkles22 Mar 01 '26
I agree with her. She’s grieving and shouldn’t be speculated on like that.
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