A 12-year-old’s journey into the world of Ozempic
It started in childhood when she would “shame eat" packets of Devil’s Food cookies after school and hide the wrappers. “The real difficult part about being a woman is then having a child that’s also going to be a woman and realizing all of the messed-up internalizing that you’ve done," says Handler, 40. Mochi Health, the telehealth obesity clinic Handler initially joined, says many medications don’t require close monitoring of patients and that parents are largely honest about providing assessments of their children. ‘Felt bad about myself’ Birdie remembers watching the Nickelodeon comedy “iCarly" when she was 8 years old and fixating on Sam, Carly’s loyal sidekick, whose food obsession is a long-running joke on the show. A doctor prescribed Birdie compounded semaglutide based on records Handler provided about Birdie’s health and weight, Handler says.
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