Whitney Way Thore Says Fertility Doctor Suggested Weight-Loss Medication

In an interview with E! News, the My Big Fat Fabulous Life star said the recommendation was tied to fertility, not to a generic celebrity wellness reveal. “She said, ‘Just take it, and then if you get pregnant, stop,’” Way Thore told the outlet, explaining why she began the medication. She also said, “I didn’t really have any side effects or anything like that,” adding that “physically it was easy.”

That is the part that is clearly established here: Way Thore’s account of what her doctor told her, her reason for starting the medication, and her description of how it felt. The specific drug is not named, and E! frames the story through her interview, not through medical records or comment from the physician.

The more revealing part of the interview is how matter-of-factly she places the medication inside a much larger fertility process. Way Thore said she had found a sperm donor and hoped to get pregnant through intrauterine insemination. She also said she was nervous about telling her now-fiancé Jake Beaudoin, because at the time their relationship was still more casual and she assumed her plan might push him away.

Instead, she said, he was “so supportive and so excited,” and “never wavered on that once and still hasn’t.”

That leaves the story in a more interesting place than the phrase “weight-loss shots” usually does. Way Thore is not describing a reinvention campaign. She is describing one medical step inside a fertility journey, alongside the harder interpersonal calculation of whether the person she was dating would stay once the plan became real.

E! also quotes her reflecting on why that support surprised her. After what she described as years of disappointing relationships, she said she was alert for warning signs and “really, really, really looking for reasons to believe that it wasn’t right.” Instead, she said of Beaudoin, “he proved me wrong.”