Kelly Clarkson decided to start taking weight loss medication to slim down when she no longer recognized herself on stage.
The singer made the revelation during Monday’s episode of her eponymous talk show while chatting with guest star Whoopi Goldberg about her own transformation.
Clarkson, 42, shared a story about seeing herself perform a show at The Belasco Theatre in New York City and realizing how many pounds she had put on.
“Do you know what’s funny? I didn’t see it,” she told Goldberg of her weight at the time.
“Literally we were watching it. We were in my house in New York like watching it. I was going to release it and then all of a sudden I paused it and I was like, ‘Who the f–k is that?’ I swear to God. It sounds insane.”
The “Because of You” singer admitted that, up until that moment, she never noticed how much weight she had gained. However, she said she was never “insecure” about it.
“People are like, ‘She must not have been happy,’” Clarkson said. “I was like, ’No, I was happy. I just did not see that.’”
Clarkson furthered that she was “riding high” even when she was at her heaviest weight of 203 pounds.
“People assumed, ‘Oh she must’ve been miserable or depressed or whatever,’ and I was like, ’No, I was not,’” she reiterated.
But when Clarkson watched the concert recording of herself back, she realized her health was in danger.
“Any second now, she is going to die,” Clarkson recalled thinking to herself when she first realized how heavy she had gotten.
Goldberg, 68, admitted that she first turned to the Type II diabetes drug Mounjaro after someone thought she was wearing a fat suit in her movie “Till.”
“I was indignant. I was like, ‘This is not a fat suit. this is me!’” Goldberg said.
“And then I saw,” Goldberg said of her need to trim her waistline.
Meanwhile, Clarkson admitted that her doctor had encouraged her for “two years” to go on a weight loss drug to lose weight.
“I was like, ’No, I’m afraid of it, I already have thyroid problems.’ I was afraid,” the “American Idol” alum confessed.
Ultimately, Clarkson decided to go on the medication because her “blood work got so bad.”
Clarkson has since dropped more than 60 pounds on the unspecified drug, which she confirmed was not Ozempic but something “similar” that “aids in breaking down the sugar.”
