Ana Navarro has admitted she is taking Mounjaro, ending years of speculation about her dramatic weight loss.
The View host, 54, made the confession on Tuesday’s episode of the ABC talk show while watching an old clip of herself dancing with Spanish singer and actress Charo. She pointed to her former figure and told viewers that the footage predated her use of the weight-loss drug.
“We’ve lost the equivalent of a baby hippo on that stage,” she said.
The admission marks a shift from Navarro’s previous public stance on her slimmed-down appearance. Back in June 2023, social media followers flooded her Instagram comments with accusations that she was taking Ozempic after she posted a photo showing a noticeably thinner frame. At that time, the political commentator pushed back against the speculation, offering a detailed alternative explanation for her transformation.
“I spent time there learning to cook and eat healthier, reprogramming the way I think of my lifestyle, and being more active,” she wrote in her Instagram response, describing a wellness retreat in Mexico with girlfriends. “We did all sorts of exercise classes for hours a day. When we came back to Miami, we were determined to continue some of our healthy habits.”
Navarro also disclosed then that she was working with a nutritionist and medical supervisor after receiving a pre-diabetic diagnosis. She maintained that her approach centered on comprehensive lifestyle overhaul rather than pharmaceutical intervention.
“So it’s been a complete lifestyle change – except for the damn rosé and margaritas, which I can’t give up,” she shared at the time.
The Nicaragua-born commentator was not the first at the Hot Topics table to turn to Mounjaro. In March 2024, Whoopi Goldberg, 70, revealed on-air that she began taking the medication after her weight climbed to nearly 300 pounds following her work on the 2022 film Till. She attributed the gain partly to steroid treatments during that period.
“I had taken all those steroids, I was on all this stuff, and one of the things that’s helped me drop the weight is the Mounjaro –– that’s what I use,” Goldberg said on The View.
Sunny Hostin, 57, joined the disclosure that same month, sharing that she turned to Mounjaro after gaining 40 pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawyer and former prosecutor faced backlash even after her transformation, receiving what she described as nasty emails accusing her of being too skinny and diverting the drug from diabetic patients. She pushed back by describing the emotional toll of her pre-medication state.
“There is shame when you’ve gained weight, and I have never experienced that kinda shame before,” she said.
Navarro’s own earlier statements had emphasized individual struggle over universal prescription. “I am not equipped to give anyone advice or endorse any solution,” she added in her 2023 Instagram remarks. “We all have to figure out what works for each of us. It is a daily struggle for me. I still really like tequila and staying in bed with my poodle…🤷🏻♀️.”
The trio of confessions places The View among the most prominent television platforms where public figures have openly discussed using GLP-1 medications amid booming cultural demand. What began as scattered celebrity acknowledgments has evolved into routine on-air disclosure, with Goldberg, Hostin and now Navarro each framing their choices through personal health crises rather than cosmetic goals.
The ABC daytime program, which has aired since 1997, has increasingly served as a venue where its diverse panel of hosts apply their political commentary backgrounds to personal health revelations. Navarro, a Republican strategist turned anti-Trump commentator, joined the show as a recurring guest host in 2018 before ascending to full-time status.
Tuesday’s episode, featuring the Charo clip comparison, offered Navarro a visual mechanism to underscore her physical transformation without the defensive posture of her 2023 social media rebuttals. Her baby hippo comparison, delivered to the studio audience, treated the subject with the blunt humor that has characterized her on-air persona.
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