Chrissy Metz said she has started taking a GLP-1 medication after years of skepticism, a change of heart she linked to her health and age. The This Is Us actor, 45, said she decided to move ahead after thinking about perimenopause, a family history of obesity and years of trying other approaches.
She made the disclosure in a new People interview, which is why the conversation is surfacing now. Metz said she had worried the medication would not work for her and feared terrible side effects, but she reached a point where, in her words, she was “not getting any younger” and just wanted to take care of herself.
That shift matters because Metz had once sounded unconvinced by GLP-1 medications, the kind of public skepticism that has been common around weight-loss drugs. Now she is speaking as someone who has chosen one herself, and she is doing it while also serving as a brand ambassador for Ro, putting her change in view for an audience that has followed her body image story for years.
The part Metz seems most intent on controlling is not the medication itself but the judgment around it. She said people used to ask why she was not on a GLP-1, and now they may ask why she is. Her answer was blunt: her life is her life, and she has to do what is best for her.
What she has not said is which GLP-1 medication she is taking or when she started it, leaving the decision itself as the main news. Even so, the disclosure lands as a clear public reversal: a celebrity who once questioned the drugs is now using one and saying the choice was about care, not appearance.
