Exclusive | This unexpected Ozempic side-effect? Wreaking havoc on womens wardrobes: The shots should come with a warning
Dina Pattelli can’t weight to wow ’em this fall. Since 2022, the 43-year-old Staten Islander shrank from a Size 18 in jeans at 300 pounds — to a slimmer Size 8, thanks to a combination of trendy weight loss meds.But with her body regularly changing, the married mom of two reports struggling to find flattering ‘fits.
“I’m so happy I’ve lost weight,” Pattelli, currently at a healthy 160 pounds, told The Post.“But I constantly have to buy new wardrobes.
“I spend all this money on cute clothes, and half of the stuff doesn’t fit because my body changes so much.It’s been tough,” she confessed.
Pattelli found herself in the prime predicament after using the anti-obesity pill Contrave, as well as Mounjaro, a Type 2 diabetes injectable, to drop 140 pounds.Pattelli’s husband, Carl, 42, nixed over half that while on the shots. Finding fashions to flaunt new physiques is a voguish — and often daunting — problem for people like the Pattellis, who have experienced recent and relatively rapid weight loss. Darkening the doorways of those once-dreaded dressing rooms, skimming sales racks or even sweeping one’s own closet is now a new kind of challenge for many of the estimated 15.5 million Americans on Ozempic, Wegovy and their fat-zapping kin. In fact, weight loss drug users online have joked that the jabs should come with a different kind of “warning.” Cyber kidders say the little labels should notify patients that sizing troubles are a likely side-effect of the pharmaceuticals — one of the less unsavory consequences (unlike erectile dysfunction or, in rare cases, death). However, some unamused users say clothes shopping has become even more “frustrating” since slimming, because they haven’t yet been able to figure out their “true size.”Turner Allen, a personal stylist in NYC, often helps newly trim clients overcome the pangs of fast fat loss — with a splash of pizzazz. “There’s a huge psychological compone...