No one wants a droopy peach on the beach.
But fear of flaunting a flat fanny in her bikini was the furthest thing from Jess Loren’s mind when she signed up for weight loss jabs last spring, hoping to get rid of some excess heft.
Tipping the scale at 227 pounds, the then-voluptuous brunette had boasted a bodacious behind for most of her adult life.
After losing over 75 pounds with the injections, the married mom of two in Los Angeles received a rude awakening, regarding her suddenly-withering rear.
“My dad said, ‘You don’t have a butt anymore,’” Loren, 39, a digital-tech CEO, told The Post with a laugh.
“I try on bathing suits and I’ve got ‘ghost ass,’ or what people online call ‘Ozempic butt.’”
A plague on patooties, “Ozempic Butt” is an unofficial side effect of the type-2 diabetes shots.
However, Ozempic users aren’t the only ones battling sagging backsides.
Skinny wannabes like Loren, who slimmed down using Mounjaro and other medications, claim to have lost the bounce in their behinds, too.
The grumbles echo those from folks who’ve come down with a case of “Ozempic face” — the sunken eyes, gaunt cheeks and saggy skin that’s stricken jab-happy VIPs like Jessica Simpson and Scott Disicik.
Taut mom Alexus Brookshire, 25, from Tennessee, tells The Post she’s thankful to have shed 102 pounds since starting Ozempic in May 2023.
But the blond’s not too fond of her less than aesthetically pleasing assets.
“I hate my Ozempic butt,” griped the Gen Z mom of two, adding that she’d always had a “good” derrière.
“It does not look awful in a bathing suit,” she said, “but I would love to improve it by getting in the gym.”
Brookshire hopes squats and lunges boost her booty.
But some newly trim New Yorkers are too impatient for that — giving rise to a side industry dedicated to putting the plump back into newly shrunken posteriors.
Chris Bustamante, a doctor of nursing practice and founder of the Lushful Aesthetics MedSpa, says Ozempic shooters have recently flocked to his midtown offices hoping to reshape hanging heinies.
“Ozempic Butt is essentially a symptom of rapid weight loss,” he explained. “And with rapid weight loss comes loose skin.”
“The butt it can appear very deflated, causing people to feel quite insecure about its appearance.”
According to Bustamante, his nonsurgical Instant BBL injections offer patients results similar to those of a Brazilian Butt Lift — during which plastic surgeons transfer excess fat to the buttock.
A traditional BBL can cost upwards of $15,000 in NYC. The procedure comes with a slew of adverse risks such as infection, nerve damage and death, per the Cleveland Clinic.
For his rump restoration jabs, Bustamante charges between $5,500 to $15,000, depending a patient’s preferred outcomes.
He typically injects between 40-60 syringes of Radiesse. The calcium-based substance is a dermal filler used for skin rejuvenation.
“Many people are on on GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic because they care about their appearance and, of course, their health,” he continued. “They want to look and feel their best.”
“Having a flat and saggy butt in a bathing suit is usually not the fantasy.”
Meanwhile, Loren told The Post her little caboose isn’t going to stop her from soaking up the sun in a two-piece this summer.
“I feel so good about my body at 129 pounds,” she said of her new number on the scale.
“I’m going to love myself, no matter what.”
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