Boy George in London in October 2023.Photo:Mike Marsland/WireImage
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Boy Georgeis opening up about getting a tummy tuck, calling it “the most painful thing” he’s ever done.
In his new memoirKarma, out Tuesday from Mango Publishing, the singer and ’80s pop icon, 62, revealed that he had the cosmetic procedure done after getting a hair transplant.
“It’s time to confess I had three hair transplants around 2015-2018 – two in Ireland and a final one in LA – and the weird thing is no one remembers I was bald as a shaved badger,” he wrote. “I had a tummy tuck not long after, which was the most painful thing I’ve ever done because I went on tour straight after with Cyndi Lauper with the blood bag attached.”
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Additionally, the Culture Club frontman revealed that prior to appearing on the long-running U.K. competition showI’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!in 2022, he tried taking type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic to keep up with his new slim figure. However, he now later switched to Mounjaro, admitting that maintaining his weight has been difficult over the years as someone in the public eye.
Ozempicis the brand name for semaglutide and works in the brain to impact satiety. It’s FDA-approved to treat type 2 diabetes but has been trending due to celebrities using it off-label for weight loss.
“I have struggled with my weight most of my life and being under public and media scrutiny doesn’t help,” George wrote. “We are all guilty of saying, ‘Hasn’t so and so got big,’ even when we are carrying extra pounds ourselves.”
“I love food and I can’t control my appetite, but I think I have finally got it under control,” he continued. “Well, I’m on Mounjaro. Isn’t everyone? Trust me anyone who was fat last year and is now skinny is on the wonder drug.”
Boy George’s Karma.
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source: people.com
