Mama June Using Weight Loss Injections After Gaining 130 Pounds
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00:00 I have noticed over the last year and a half
00:03 that I've really put on weight.
00:05 I have packed on about 120, 130 pounds.
00:10 Mama June revealing a weight loss update.
00:13 I will do whatever it takes.
00:15 It's been nearly a decade since the reality star
00:17 famously underwent gastric sleeve surgery.
00:20 I mean, you can't see the scars.
00:21 I mean, they're up underneath, you know what I'm saying?
00:23 Now you can see them.
00:24 That's June post-op with ET in 2017.
00:27 But now on Instagram, she's sharing her plan
00:30 to get back in shape after recent weight gain.
00:32 Eating out, not eating right, just all kinds of stuff.
00:36 So I decided that I wanted to take the route
00:39 of going with semaglutide.
00:41 According to the Mayo Clinic,
00:43 semaglutide is a common treatment for type 2 diabetes
00:46 that lowers medical risks and aids in weight loss.
00:50 I had a gastric sleeve surgery.
00:54 I used to weigh 550 pounds.
00:56 So on my own, I went from 550 pounds to 311
01:00 the day that I had my surgery.
01:02 And in six weeks, I went from 311 all the way down to 195.
01:07 This surgery is honestly probably the scariest thing
01:11 I've ever done in my life.
01:12 I mean, I could die from it.
01:13 June's original weight loss transformation
01:15 playing out across Mama June from not to hot.
01:19 Well, since then, you know, I kind of kept off the weight.
01:22 I stayed at like 130, 140, 150.
01:26 And to me, I looked super skinny.
01:29 Are you scared of gaining the weight back?
01:31 No, I will never go back to what I look like.
01:33 I'm the bombdiggity.com, period.
01:37 June, you did a show about reshaping your body.
01:41 Have you come to peace with that now?
01:43 I am okay with where I am
01:45 because in COVID, I have gained like 100 pounds.
01:48 I wanna try to lose this weight and it's been really hard.
01:51 June's saying she initially gained weight
01:53 during the pandemic.
01:55 Then her health struggles intensified
01:57 amid her daughter, Anna Chickadee Cardwell's cancer battle.
02:00 For me, it's like an emotional rollercoaster sometimes
02:03 and like mentally because it's always on my mind.
02:05 The cancer is very aggressive and it grew from nothing
02:09 to something huge on the left side of her body really fast.
02:14 Anna died in December at 29 years old.
02:17 We were all just sitting there talking
02:19 and she took her last breath and I'm just...
02:24 A lot of y'all know that me and Justin and Eldridge
02:28 was Anna's main caregivers
02:30 and I guess with the stress of everything going on,
02:34 eating out, not eating right, just all kinds of stuff.
02:38 Now, months after Anna's death,
02:40 June's hoping her fans find inspiration
02:42 in round two of her weight loss journey.
02:44 I'm fixing to show y'all what I look like,
02:46 belly and all, through my moo-moo
02:49 and every week I'm gonna come on here
02:50 and I'm gonna give you my bad, good, indifferent, everything
02:55 and we're going through this journey together.
02:58 People have loved us in our highs and our lows
03:00 and the most messages that I get in my inboxes
03:02 is you made me be able to stand up with my family
03:05 that was fighting addiction or I had weight loss surgery
03:08 and I felt like I didn't have to go through it alone.
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