Kyle Richards’ daughter, Sophia Umansky, responded to criticism over taking the weight-loss drug Mounjaro after displaying off her dramatic hair loss.
“Individuals who discover themselves telling me that I don’t must be on it, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re not medical medical doctors,” the reality star knowledgeable People on Saturday.
“I really feel all people should loosen up and reside their very personal lives. And honesty will get you far in life and lying isn’t pleasing. It’s not good.”
Umansky, 25, shared that people can’t “resolve” or “hate” her on account of she was the one who uncovered that she had been taking the Kind II diabetes drug and is “proudly proudly owning it.”
“It’s like, ‘Okay, correctly, I knowledgeable you that. I’m proudly proudly owning it.’ I really feel it’s high-quality. And I on a regular basis say I’m on Mounjaro. I clearly converse to a doctor,” she added.
The “Purchasing for Beverly Hills” alum shared that Richards, 56, is supportive of her and her sister’s alternatives.
“I’m 25 years outdated, so I’m an grownup, I can do what I would really like,” she acknowledged. “And naturally we’ve acquired steering from our mom.”
Umansky continued, “She wasn’t saying like, ‘Oh, it’s a must to be on this therapy.’ Undoubtedly not saying that.”
“I really feel she was undoubtedly attempting to veer me away from getting on this therapy, nonetheless as quickly as I spoke to medical medical doctors and he or she seen that that’s the path I wanted to take, she was very supportive.”
The influencer moreover shared that she doesn’t wrestle with “physique dysmorphia” and believes she is “cute every strategies.”
“I really feel I was cute sooner than and I’m cute now,” she added. “There’s nothing incorrect with attempting to essentially really feel barely bit additional assured, barely bit cuter.”
“People get labored on frequently, they get filler, they get Botox, they do all fully differing types of points. So if I want to actually really feel barely cuter, why not?”
Umansky spoke out after revealing she started taking Mounjaro earlier this yr and had been shedding hair ever since.
“I’m gonna be bald in a number of week,” she acknowledged by means of TikTok, revealing the clumps of hair which have fallen out throughout the bathe.
Richards shares Sophia, Alexia Simone Umansky, 28, and Portia Umansky, 17, collectively together with her estranged husband, Mauricio Umansky. She’s moreover the mother to Farrah Brittany Aldjufrie, 36.