HOW KELLY DROPPED 38KG

SECRETS BEHIND THE STAR’S STUNNING NEW LOOK

A fter vowing in a New Year’s Eve Instagram post to make self-care a priority in 2020, Kelly Osbourne has kept her word and is proud of her progress. “I have come to the realisation that I constantly put the needs of others before my own,” she wrote to close out 2019. “It’s time to put myself first.”

Whatever she’s doing, it appears to be working. On August 4, the reality star and singer posted a sassy back seat selfie of herself in a Gucci get-up and was flooded by positive comments from fans and famous friends. “So chic my queen,” singer Betty Who wrote, while the mum of Jeannie Mai (Osbourne’s co-host on US talk show The Real) commented, “Oh my gosh, you lost a lot of weight.”

Osbourne, 35, eagerly replied in the comments section. “That’s right mama Mai I lost [38kg] since I last saw you,” she said. “Can you believe it?”

Days earlier, she also shared a snap of herself holding up a size 26 clothing tag. “Yes ... I’m bragging,” the British actress wrote alongside the photo. “Because I worked hard and it feels good!!!”

Clearly loving her new lockdown look, the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne posted many more selfies in the days that followed. In late March, she opened up to Entertainment Tonight about how she’s thriving in quarantine, sharing she’d quickly shed 3kg while holed up in Los Angeles.

“I guess what I’m doing is intermittent fasting if you really think about it,” she said.

“I get up, I have coffee and then I juice until night-time. And then I have like, one meal and then I go to bed.”

The star also said she’s been passing the time pounding the pavement in her neighbourhood. “I’ve just been going on walks,” she shared. “And when I say walks, they’re like [9.5km] walks because there’s nothing else to do.”

Osbourne’s road to health and happiness has been a long and winding one. She was 17 when she first found fame on her family’s reality show The Osbournes in 2002. “I was miserable and

unhappy about how I looked,” she said in an interview with UK’s Sunday Mirror in 2010. “TV makes you seem larger and people thought I was bigger than I was.”

She turned to drugs and alcohol and took comfort in binge-eating. “I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict,” she told Us Weekly in 2010. “I will never understand that.”

While last year she celebrated two years of sobriety, in early 2009 she entered a treatment facility in Oregon for prescription drug addiction. Upon leaving, she told Shape magazine in 2011, “I replaced the drugs with food and just got fatter and fatter. I’m an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.”

Later that year, she dropped 9kg while being a contestant on Dancing with the Stars (US). “I’d fill up on French fries and pizza all day and wonder why I wasn’t losing weight,” she told Shape. “In the very beginning, I kept getting sick during rehearsals because I was eating such terrible, fatty food.”

She switched to a high-protein, low-carb diet to keep her energy up. “Then I started losing weight and realised, ‘Oh, it’s true

what they say: diet and exercise really work!’” she said.

When the show ended, she kept the kilos from creeping back on with healthy eating and the help of a personal trainer. “I thought, ‘Kelly, you’ve come this far, let’s see what you can really do!’” she said. She dropped another 14kg, bringing her weight loss to a total of 23kg.

In the following years, she continued to keep her health a priority, exercising and sticking to a plant-based diet. And in 2015, she said she was leaning towards a more balanced approach to her body image.

“I had a six-pack ... but it sucked,” she said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. “I was miserable and hungry all the time. So I was like, ‘F--k this! I’ve got the picture, I can show my kids later. I’m done.’”

Her most recent focus on fitness appears to be less draining. “I have so much energy, it’s crazy,” she told Entertainment Tonight in March. “My body’s like, ‘How is it you get in quarantine and you’re like, suddenly … a fitness guru, and have more energy and are happier than you were before quarantine?’” •

Kelly Osbourne was slim and smiling when she stepped out for dinner at West Hollywood hot spot Craig’s on June 8. Out on the town in Los Angeles on Jan. 25, 2019.

NEW LOOK Osbourne shared a pic with her actress friend Brooke Chamberlain (left) in June. But her Aug. 4 selfie (right) caused the biggest stir, with many fans saying she was “unrecognisable” and drawing comparisons to Adele’s recent image overhaul.

“I will never say I’m a healthy person; I’m healthier,” Osbourne (seen here taking a kickboxing class) said in 2017. “I’ve become way more sensible.”

Finding Balance “Diets do not work, unless people are trying to get skinny for a movie role,” Osbourne (here, in Las Vegas on Jan. 30) has said. “You go on a diet, you break it, and then you go back to doing what you’re doing. It’s knowledge. Figuring out a healthier diet plan.”