Jack Osbourne pushed back on criticism over his weight loss on May 19, saying in an Instagram video that he had not lost weight in the last six months and that the changes people were reacting to were mostly a shaved beard and a “creepy mustache.” He said the online reaction had gone so far that he felt forced to answer it directly.
“I cannot believe I’m having to actually make this f--king video,” Osbourne said, adding that the comments about being “sick” or “grossly underweight” were “f--king insane.” He said he was 5 foot 8 and a half and 155 pounds, described the weight as healthy, and said he had been slowly but consistently losing weight for the last three and a half years.
Osbourne said the process began when he shot up to about 220 pounds roughly three and a half years ago and decided to make changes. He said he trains at his jiu-jitsu gym and has not been dropping weight suddenly. “What’s the big f--king deal?” he said, before adding, “The fact that I even have to say this blows my mind.”
The comments land in the middle of a wider family fight over online body-shaming. Sharon Osbourne has also defended Kelly Osbourne against criticism over her own appearance, saying in December that her daughter’s weight loss was tied to grief after losing her father. On “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Sharon Osbourne said, “She’s lost her daddy,” and added, “She can’t eat right now.”
Sharon Osbourne has framed the abuse as less about her daughter and more about the people posting it. In the same interview, she called negative comments on social media “a shield for people that are unhappy,” saying, “They’ve something wrong with their lives. They’re not happy.” The family’s response shows how quickly a visible change in appearance can become a public guessing game, even when the person at the center says the answer is simpler than the speculation around it.
Jack Osbourne said his own experience has been shaped by years of scrutiny, saying he had been “brutalized by the press” for being overweight for most of his life. His latest video was meant to shut down the rumors, but it also made clear that in the Osbourne household, weight loss remains something the family feels compelled to explain rather than discuss on its own terms.
