Kathy Bates is defending her weight loss journey after admitting she used Ozempic as a secondary tool to shed 100 pounds. "People say, 'Well, it was the Ozempic.' F*** you, it was the Ozempic!" Bates, 77, told Variety in an interview published on Wednesday, September 10. "It took me years to do this. I got this diagnosis about diabetes - my father died of it; his mother died of it; one of my sisters is in peril. When they said 'diabetes,' I figured out what to do to slowly, over years, to lose the weight.