Kelly Osbourne is defending herself after her appearance at an awards show Sunday had the Internet talking.
After appearing Sunday 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,” she continued. “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,” Kelly told People. “I have been a drug addict, an alcoholic … I’ve been a complete mess, disrespectful to people, horrible — but I got more s**t 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 the 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**k 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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There becomes a point of no return with anorexia. Your body will reject food even if you decide to eat. On one hand we have billboards and TV commercials for suicide prevention. If you know someone, get them help. But if someone is killing themselves with food or lack of, we aren’t supposed to say anything because of body positivity. You wouldn’t hand someone a bullet, but it’s ok to make excuses for Kelly and keep quiet because she’s grieving. Grief never ends. You either want her to get help or you choose to enable her death. She has a son to live for.
Hard to believe that’s even the same person. What doctors did that to her? Loved Ozzy, Jack’s turned out okay, the others-not a fan.
I understand that her dad passed away, but to continue to act like you haven’t been spewing vile things about other people’s bodies for a paycheck in the past is rich. You do not look healthy. Any doctor OUTSIDE of Hollywood would tell you that. Put down the GLP1 meds and pick up a fucking hoagie.
The person who had a tv show that judged people for how they looked is getting upset that people are having an opinion on how she looks??? 😂 she needs to stop being a massive hypocrite and go eat a burger or 2.
Wow, people are horrible. She didn’t ask to be anorexic. Maybe if you ever met someone suffering from it you’d understand. My mom is anorexic. It Is a mental illness. Just like every other one. She can’t see what we see.
The people she was so rude and judgy about on fashion police didn’t ask for it either, didn’t stop her from being nasty about them.
While I understand she lost her dad and is grieving, she started looking like this before he was gone. I think she has a really bad case of body dysmorphia and the Ozempic craze has allowed her to get scary skinny, way too fast- and she is just continuing on with it. Honestly, when she thinks she was “chubby”, I think she was gorgeous! I feel for her because obviously this is deep rooted and it’s likely her fathers passing has exacerbated her weight loss but when you are that skinny that you can see it so prevalently in your face like her- it’s time to stop. I hope she finds a healthier way to grieve.
Unfortunately that’s not always true. My mom suffers from body dysmorphia and anorexia. She got down to 82 pounds and thought she looked good. That’s what dysmorphia is. They don’t see what we see.
I’m confused… What did I say that wasn’t true? She definitely started this skinny thing prior to his passing, I said literally myself, that she has body dysmorphia, this is deep rooted and that likely her dad’s passing has made everything worse… I also don’t understand how she’s still getting access to the weight loss meds since everything I know is that you have to have a doctor prescribing them. A doctor should know she isn’t looking healthy at all and needs to blow the whistle on it and tell her no.
I understand body dysmorphia- my ex best friend has it and it’s nuts. But since we DO see what she isn’t seeing- and we are in a normal state of consciousness and our common sense isn’t veiled like hers is with the dysmorphia, someone needs to step in and cut off access to the GLP1 especially if the grief is causing her not to eat- then she doesn’t need the GLP1.
“When you see it so prevalently in your face. It’s time to stop.” As I already stated, she CANNOT see it. She has body dysmorphia and is clearly anorexic.
Clearly she loves the attention. Nobody is forcing her to put up these stupid TikTok’s where she admires herself and pretends to be interacting with her son.
Don’t want ppls opinions? Stay home and put the phone down then.
Ummmmm I’ve been 200 lbs after my first child and I’ve been 100 lbs and Kelly doesn’t look good at all! That skinny dead look is not attractive! This is going back in time to my childhood when all the women models looked like holocaust victims.. now it’s even worse since ozempic! They all look sick to me!
Oh Kelly always misreads the room. No! Peeps are concerned for your wellbeing- lay off the Ozempic!
I agree, BUT it won’t do any good unless SHE wants the help
As a former anorexic, she looks anorexic. She doesn’t look well.
You wouldn’t look well either if you’d just lost your best friend
I lost my 4 best friends. I didn’t look anorexic. I looked shocked and sad
First off, everyone grieves differently. Second, when someone is depressed, especially in a state of grief, some over eat, some don’t eat at all. Just because you were shocked and sad, doesn’t mean everyone appears that way. I am naturally thin. I always struggled to gain weight. When I would have a bout of severe anxiety- so severe it threw me into depression- it would cause me NOT to eat. However, I would cry because I knew I looked terrible and way too skinny. I remember specifically in my 30’s my mom took me to find pants and I cried because at that point I had to get a childrens size long in the length, because I was no longer in even juniors sizing anymore. It’s the same about how you look while grieving- some cry out in the open and talk about it constantly- some cry when they are alone and do not talk about what they are going through. It’s clear Kelly also has body dysmorphia as well- so I don’t think it’s JUST grief, nor do I think it’s JUST dysmorphia right now. My point is she needs to treat one or the other- or both. Because not treating either is making her look like she is wasting away- quick
She looks older than her mom.
Kelly hasn’t been kind neither has her mother but they want kindness smh. Kelly looks terrible and sick, and grief has nothing to do with it. She’s been turning into the crypt keeper for awhile now. Hopefully she gets help before it’s to late.
I get that she’s grieving but she has a child and she looked like this before her dad passed. Her little boy shouldn’t have to lose his mom so young. Get it together, girl.
Please she loves the attention, she spent years trying to make herself happen and has finally hit her goal.
Let’s be honest, Kelly Osbourne hasn’t always been the nicest person at all times and neither has her mother.
Compound that with these word salad pity parties, as if she doesn’t have 2 eyes and a mirror and a scale.. the empathy just isn’t there.
Sorry her father passed. He had a long life.
She looked like this WAAAAYYYYYY before ozzy’s passing.
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Greif my ass. She been riding the Ozempic train for years. She looks like a lollipop.
This is someone secretly crying out for help. Really sad. I hope she gets better.
This is someone who would scream HOW DARE YOU for insinuating she needed help. Her head is so far up her own ass it’s stuck up there. She needs to wake up. Jack turned it around and is a cool dude. I’m a huge fan of her husband. She needs to get it together.
I get grief impacting your appetite, and I relate to weight comments and struggles, however her family needs to step in and get her help. She looks genuinely unwell and very clearly needs therapy and nutritional help. It’s not like she can’t afford it.
A family wanting help isn’t enough, Kelly has to want the help
At the end of the day, her mother and her husband have the means to hire therapists, nutritionists, and dieticians that will come to the house to provide care. She is quite literally wasting away and needs medical intervention. This isn’t about a rehab stint where she can refuse treatment. If her grief is that great that it is impacting her decision making skills and causing her harm, she can be involuntarily admitted to an in patient program.
Everyone loses their parents at some point, and if she doesn’t snap out of it HER son is gonna lose his mother.
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
Krista, be quiet…you don’t know anything, you just THINK you do.
I’ve lost a parent and lost 30 lbs within 6 months by simple not eating or sleeping, no medicine required.
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.
She is emaciated. . .and what is of deep is muscle and bone loss
I realize for the dedicated Ozempic crowd, it means nothing but it IS
serious, particularly as a person ages
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
Like I said to bananzas, the family wanting to help wouldn’t be enough, Kelly has to want the help
Of course but the first step is not downplaying it. It’s not just “she’s sad and doesn’t want to eat”. She has a husband, a brother, friends, she needs an intervention and professional help
I agree Mick, but it won’t do any good unless SHE wants the help