Dolores Catania Sought Therapy After Gaining 20 Pounds

In a brand new interview, nevertheless, the truth star admitted she has gained 20 kilos for the reason that drug reportedly “stopped working,” which has led her to hunt skilled assist.

Whereas showing on “Jeff Lewis Stay,” Catania, 54, informed the host and former Bravo character that she has been struggling recently along with her weight acquire.

“I am having a very exhausting time proper now,” the mom of two stated. “My Mounjaro (also called Ozempic) stopped working; I gained 20 kilos.”

Catania, who turned a full-time forged member throughout the seventh season of “RHONJ,” continued, “I’ve been on the lookout for remedy for all my pals. I’m actually having a foul time with this.”

Elsewhere, throughout the dialog, Catania informed Lewis that she could not attempt every other weight reduction drugs as a result of she’s “completed all of it.”

“I ended taking it for, like, a month,” she stated, including that one more reason she needed to cease the drug was her have to endure a “cardiac ablation”—a therapy for folks with irregular heartbeats.

Catania’s candid feedback about her weight aren’t the primary time the truth star has spoken publicly about her physique. Throughout a earlier episode of Andy Cohen‘s “Watch What Occurs Stay,” the Jersey native informed Cohen that she hopped on the Ozempic “bandwagon” to keep away from wanting “larger” than her castmates throughout a “RHONJ” reunion.

Relating to the drug’s unintended effects, Catania claimed her expertise was minimal, noting that her just one was starvation.

In one other interview, the Bravo veteran shared her pleasure about shedding “20 kilos” with the assistance of Ozempic, including that she hoped to achieve a weight within the low 130s.

“I am being real looking,” she continued. “Proper now I am 137. I used to be 157 once I began.”

And Catania is not the one one in her circle who has achieved weight-loss targets whereas utilizing some of these drugs. Beforehand, in February 2025, she opened up about her boyfriend, Paul Connell, going via his personal physique transformation after shedding “60 kilos.”

“He now not takes a sure blood stress medicine and it’s been actually constructive,” she stated earlier than including that she was contemplating switching to a “decrease dose” after being on the burden loss drug for years.

“I do know it’s time for me to wean myself off or go on a decrease dose however medical doctors have stated there’s probably not something flawed with staying on it. It’s essential to all the time undergo an actual physician although who is aware of what they’re doing. Analysis is every thing,” she stated.

Though Catania and her boyfriend, Connell, have had a constructive expertise with these drugs, that is not the case for everybody, notably comic Amy Schumer.

In keeping with an earlier report from The Blast, the actress beforehand revealed that whereas utilizing Ozempic, she bought so sick she might barely get away from bed.

“I’ve this gene, GDF15, which makes you extraordinarily liable to nausea, which is why I used to be so sick throughout my being pregnant,” she recalled on a radio present, including that she had a “horrible expertise” when she began utilizing Ozempic.