Gemma Collins has opened up about her Ozempic journey that left her ‘liberated’ before she encountered side effects.

The reality star, 45, briefly took the weight-loss medication but was forced to stop after she experienced a gallbladder attack.

During a discussion around the popular drug in the I’m A Celebrity camp on Thursday’s episode, Gemma admitted she found it ‘life changing’ and ‘liberating’.

Explaining how the drug curbed her appepetite, she said: ‘When I was first doing it, me and Rami went for a Turkish, and in my whole life, if a bread basket went down, oh mate, there’s nothing like a bread basket.

‘Do you know how weird it was for me to sit there. Have the bread in front of me and not want it.

‘Can you imagine how bizarre that was for him, because normally I would want it. It was great, it was liberating. I had freedom.

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Gemma Collins has opened up about her Ozempic journey that left her ‘liberated’ before she encountered side effects

‘I didn’t want that bread, but that was in the very beginning.’

However, Gemma continued: ‘So when I moved up through the doses, I ended up going up to 15 on it, 15mg, and then that is when a few weeks later I got the pain.

‘But I’m big anyway, I mean, I could lose three stone and probably wouldn’t be that different. I’ve done everything. Everything.

‘I’ve done every diet from the cake boss to the Beyonce to the cabbage soup to the egg diet. But it depends on your body. Like, what works for you and you don’t work for me.

‘But fortunately, you know, I am with someone that loves me exactly as I am. He knew me years ago, he knows me today, two pound up, two pound down.’

Gemma recently revealed her jungle weight-loss after surviving on a diet of of rice and beans on I’m A Celebrity All Stars.

She has returned to the ITV show 13 years after her last appearance and has vowed to redeem herself after she quit her last stint after just three days.

Gemma said she was surprised by the amount of weight she dropped during the show in South Africa, which was filmed in September 2025.

Speaking to OK! magazine, she said: ‘When they weighed me I’d lost 1st 4lb (8kg)’.

The TV personality also described the experience as the ‘best digital detox and spiritual healing’ and has now been using her phone less.

TV viewers declared that Gemma’s redemption is well underway after she tackled a gruelling eating trial on Tuesday night.

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During a discussion around the drug in the I’m A Celebrity camp on Thursday’s episode, Gemma admitted she found it ‘life changing’ and ‘liberating’ (pictured in September 2025)

Joined by Craig Charles, Gemma was thrown in at the deep end by tackling the infamous eating trial in a bid to win her team a spot in the main camp.

The star also overcame her fears to ride into camp on a helicopter, having broken down in tears during her last attempt in 2014.

Gemma’s return was quickly praised by fans, and they declared she was well into her ‘redemption era’.