Kelly Clarkson finally admits she DID use weight loss drug for extreme transformation (but it wasn't Ozempic)

Kelly Clarkson has finally admitted she used a weight loss drug to slim down after previously insisting her dramatic transformation was the result of 'walking' more and cutting back on carbs. 

The Kelly Clarkson Show host, 42, made the confession while interviewing Whoopi Goldberg, 68, onto her show on Monday. 

The Fort Worth, Texas-born star - who's been at the center of speculation for months about her rapid weight loss - said that doctors prescribed her with a weight loss medication after a blood test. 

She insisted she didn't use Ozempic, but did not reveal which drug she used. 

'Mine is a different one than people assume, but I ended up having to do that too,' the A Moment Like This songstress told the EGOT winner. 'Everybody thinks it's Ozempic, it's not - it's something else.'

The admission from Clarkson comes less than five months after she told People in January that her weight loss was partially a result of an enhanced focused on simple exercise and a healthy diet.

'Walking in the city is quite the workout,' the entertainer, who relocated her show from Los Angeles to New York City last year, told the magazine.

She told the magazine that she had been eating 'a healthy mix' of food while occasionally splurging.

'The other night I had a frozen yogurt with my daughter, and it was magical,' she said.

Clarkson told the publication, 'I dropped weight because I’ve been listening to my doctor - a couple [of] years I didn’t. 

'And 90 percent of the time I’m really good at it because a protein diet is good for me anyway. I’m a Texas girl, so I like meat - sorry, vegetarians in the world!'

Clarkson, who shares daughter River Rose, nine, and son Remington Alexander, seven, with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, 47, said on Monday that her physician insisted she take the medication after repeated efforts to get her on it.  

'My doctor chased me for like two years,' she said. 'And I was like, "No, I'm afraid of it. I already have thyroid problems, I was afraid."   

The My Life Would Suck Without You artist said the medication she takes is 'something that aids in helping break down the sugar,' as her 'body doesn't do it right.'

Clarkson, presumably speaking about how she didn't notice that she had progressively gained weight, said that she was taken aback when watching herself on camera at one point.   

Clarkson added, 'Seeing yourself, I didn't see it ... all of a sudden, I was like "Who the f*** is that?"'

Goldberg said a woman who saw her in the 2022 film Till told her she thought she was wearing a 'fat suit,' which she was 'indignant' about.

Clarkson reiterated that she had not been paying attention to her weight for some time. 

'It's a weird thing ... I never saw that, I was never insecure about it - I just did not see that,' Clarkson said, adding that at her heaviest, she weighed 203 pounds standing at 5-foot-3. 

Clarkson said she was not miserable or depressed at the time, even though in hindsight, she felt she looked like she was 'about to die of a heart attack.' 

Goldberg led off the appearance acknowledging she has shed pounds, and had noticed Clarkson had as well.

Goldberg said she had lost as much as 'two people' and said she had been taking a 'wonderful shot that works for folks who need some help.'

Goldberg said that she had reached 300 pounds at her heaviest.  

Clarkson told Goldberg, 'You look wonderful, and I hope you feel wonderful.'