Kelly Osbourne keeps sticking up for herself.
After appearing last night at the Brit Awards alongside her mother Sharon to accept her late father Ozzy’s lifetime achievement award, Kelly fell victim to online commentary on her body. She quickly took to her Instagram Stories to let her critics know exactly what she thought about them and the things they’d posted about her.
“There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something,” she wrote. “Kicking me while I’m down, doubting my pain, spreading my struggles as gossip, and turning your back when I need support and love most. None of it proves strength; it only reveals a profound absence of compassion and character. I’m currently going through the hardest time in my life. I should not even have to defend myself. But I won’t sit here and allow myself to be dehumanized in such a way!”
Kelly, who was born into the limelight as the daughter of rock icon Ozzy and his manager-wife Sharon, was just a high school student when her family, including younger brother Jack, became reality TV pioneers with their MTV series The Osbournes, which ran from 2002 to 2005, and quickly had to deal with cruel comments about her weight in the media.
“We live in a fat-phobic world,” People reported. “I have been a drug addict, an alcoholic … I’ve been a complete mess, disrespectful to people, horrible — but I got more s— for being fat than I did for anything else. It’s insane.”
While building a career in reality TV as host or judge on shows including Lego Masters Jr., Dancing with the Stars and Project Runway Jr., Kelly said her weight remains focus of most media coverage of her.
“You’ll never read an article about me that hasn’t got a comment about my weight,” she said at the health summit, where she also shared how opinions about her body impacted her career prospects. “People [would] say, ‘You’re so pretty. Why don’t you just lose a little bit of weight, and then you’ll be the total package,’” she recalled.
In 2020, Kelly shared that she’d lost 85 pounds following gastric sleeve surgery. She gained 100 pounds and was diagnosed with gestational diabetes while pregnant with her son Sidney, who she welcomed in November 2022 with her fiancé Sid Wilson from the band Slipknot. Because of the treatment she’d seen other stars receive after gaining weight while pregnant, Kelly said she hid out during her pregnancy.
“Long story short, I saw what they did to Jessica Simpson and I thought it was disgusting,” she told People in 2024. “I was so frightened that would happen to me too that I hid. I just didn’t want pictures out there. I didn’t want to face it, and have people be like, ‘Oh she’s a moose!’ So I just cut the problem out.”
Since Sidney’s birth, Kelly has shared with followers on social media and listeners to her family’s podcast some of the things she’s done to lose weight postpartum, including getting sculpting work done on her body and face. Since her father’s death last July, Kelly’s shared her stress and grief with followers, and been open about the toll her emotional distress has had on her weight as online critiques of her body ramped up.
In December, Kelly posted a video to her Instagram Stories slamming her critics.
“To the people who keep thinking they’re being funny and mean by writing comments like ‘Are you ill,’ or ‘Get off Ozempic, you don’t look right.’ My dad just died, and I’m doing the best that I can, and the only thing I have to live for right now is my family,” Kelly said in the since-deleted clip, as reported by People. “And I choose to share my content with you and share the happy side of my life, not the miserable side of my life. So to all those people, f*** off.”
Mother Sharon stood by her daughter in an interview with Piers Morgan when asked to respond to Kelly’s Instagram Story. “She’s right,” Sharon said. “She’s lost her daddy, she can’t eat right now.”
Following an appearance at the Royal Ascot Millinery Collective Spring/Summer 2026 presentation last week, Kelly screengrabbed some of the cruel comments she received and wrote, “Literally can’t believe how disgusting some human beings truly are! No one deserves this sort of abuse!” in a now-expired Instagram Story, People reported.
Watch Kelly and Sharon accept Ozzy’s lifetime achievement award below:
Watch the Brit Awards tribute to Ozzy below:
(Photos: Instagram)
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People aren’t bullying her for the way she looks. Most people (myself included) are genuinely concerned for her health. Yes grieving can make you lose weight. But Sharon and Kelly were on Ozempic before Ozzy died. Kelly has probably lost another 30 pounds since the last time she gave this same speech. If Sharon doesn’t want to bury another family member she needs to wake up and help her daughter before it’s too late.
Ew, ozempic face to the MAX. They look like weird anorexic twins now. Ew ew ew, why tf do ppl think this looks good? It looks corpse-like
Well said! The poor girl needs help! And shame on her loved ones for not letting her know and urging her to get help. She’s definitely on a path to death sadly.
OMG this is awful. She’s clearly anorexic and has aged 20 years in 6 months. And her mother downplays it like it’s just grief. Someone needs to get her help before she follows Ozzy