Kyle Richards’ Daughter Sophia Hits Back At Criticism Over Weight-loss Drug Use

"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" prima Kyle Richards' daughter, Sophia Umansky, is sharing why she decided to speak publically astir her usage of nan weight-loss supplier Mounjaro.

"If you're honorable astir things, group can't moreover judge you aliases dislike connected you because you said it yourself," Umansky told People. "You're nan 1 that told everyone, you're owning it, truthful thing anyone other has to say, it's like, 'OK, well, I told you that. I'm owning it.' I deliberation it's fine. And I ever opportunity I'm connected Mounjaro. I evidently talk to a doctor."

Mounjaro is an FDA-approved medicine supplier which is commonly prescribed to group diagnosed pinch Type 2 diabetes. More recently, it has go a celebrated weight-loss drug, arsenic it reduces appetite. 

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Kyle Richards' girl responded to backlash from fans aft sharing she is taking Mounjaro. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Wheelhouse)

The reality star's girl sparked backlash erstwhile she shared successful a TikTok video that she experienced hairsbreadth loss arsenic a broadside effect from taking nan drug, pinch galore commenting she shouldn't beryllium connected nan supplier to statesman with.

"People who are telling maine that I don't request to beryllium connected it, they don't cognize what they're talking about. They're not doctors," she said of nan backlash. "And I deliberation everyone needs to calm down and unrecorded their ain lives. And honesty will get you acold successful life and lying is not fun. It's not good."

Sophia Umansky attends "The Holiday Exchange" reddish carpet premiere astatine Garry Marshall Theatre connected Sept. 26, 2024, successful Burbank, California. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for High Tea Productions)

She went connected to opportunity that her mom has ever been "very supportive of immoderate decisions we make arsenic her daughters," and was decidedly "trying to veer maine distant from getting connected this medication." However, aft speaking pinch her doctors, Richards "saw that that's nan way I wanted to take, she was very supportive."

"And yeah, I deliberation a batch of group are saying that I person assemblage dysmorphia and each this, and I'm like, 'Actually, no. I deliberation I'm tiny some ways. I deliberation I was tiny earlier and I'm tiny now.' There's thing incorrect pinch trying to consciousness a small spot much confident, a small spot cuter," she added. "People get worked connected each nan time, they get filler, they get Botox, they do each different kinds of things. So if I want to consciousness a small cuter, why not?"

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Umansky shared she knowledgeable hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment aft starting to return Mounjaro. (JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images)

In nan TikTok video, Umansky explained that moreover moving her fingers done her hairsbreadth results successful "piles" of it falling out, saying she's "lucky that I person truthful overmuch hair," because if she didn't she would beryllium "bald successful astir a week" if she continued to suffer it astatine specified a accelerated pace.

"People who are telling maine that I don't request to beryllium connected it, they don't cognize what they're talking about. They're not doctors."

Umansky has been featured connected "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" a number of times passim its 14 seasons, arsenic her mom has been a formed personnel since nan commencement of nan show successful 2010. The family has shared their ups and downs passim their clip connected nan program, astir precocious including Richards and her estranged husband, Mauricio Umanksy's determination to abstracted aft 27 years of marriage.

Kyle Richards, Mauricio Umansky and Sophia Umansky be Wheelhouse's Spoke Studios and nan Agency's "Buying Beverly Hills" premiere statement astatine Wheelhouse connected Nov. 2, 2022, successful West Hollywood, California. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Wheelhouse)

"I’ve ever said I didn’t judge successful nan ‘reality show curse’ because my cognition was that a batch of group travel into this pinch fractures successful their marriage, and past they are looking astatine this arsenic a measurement out. That surely was not my story," Richards told The Hollywood Reporter successful January 2025. 

She went connected to show nan outlet that she doesn't deliberation she and Mauricio would beryllium successful this business had their lives gone down a different path, saying, "I decidedly do judge that money and fame and each that is not awesome for a marriage."

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Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky separated successful 2023. (Michael Kovac)

Mauricio and Richards besides stock daughters Alexia, 28, and Portia, 17, and Mauricio was stepfather to Richards' girl Farah, whom she shares pinch her first husband, Guraish Aldjufrie.

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