{"id":2233833,"date":"2024-04-30T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barbra-streisand-called-out-for-melissa-mccarthy-ozempic-comment\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:19:14","slug":"barbra-streisand-called-out-for-melissa-mccarthy-ozempic-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barbra-streisand-called-out-for-melissa-mccarthy-ozempic-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbra Streisand Criticized for Melissa McCarthy &#8216;Ozempic&#8217; Remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarbra-streisand-called-out-for-melissa-mccarthy-ozempic-comment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2233833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Barbra Streisand faced backlash for inquiring if Melissa \u2063McCarthy used \u201cOzempic\u201d for weight loss in a now-deleted\u2064 Instagram\u200c post. McCarthy shared \u2063a photo in a mint green\u2063 dress with Adam Shankman. \u2063Streisand\u2019s public comment sparked controversy,\u2062 with some\u2064 calling it rude and \u2064inappropriate, while others suggested she\u2063 mistakenly thought it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/instagram-to-bar-strangers-from-sending-dms-to-teenagers-in-response-to-scrutiny-of-big-tech\/\" title=\"Instagram to ban DMs from strangers to teens amid Big Tech scrutiny\">private \u200dmessage<\/a>.\u200b Barbra Streisand received \u2064criticism for\u2063 asking Melissa McCarthy about using &#8220;Ozempic&#8221; \u2064for weight loss in a deleted Instagram \u2063post. McCarthy posted a picture in a mint green dress\u2064 with Adam Shankman. Streisand&#8217;s comment stirred controversy,\u200c seen as \u200drude by some \u2062and possibly a mistaken public message.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/barbra-streisand-steps-in-it-with-awkward-attempt-to-defend-anti-trump-da-fani-willis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barbra Streisand<\/a> has been called out for asking actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/monique-insists-shed-be-more-famous-if-she-was-white-my-name-would-be-melissa-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melissa McCarthy<\/a> if she had joined the celebrity fad and was taking \u201cOzempic\u201d to lose weight in a since-deleted Instagram post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McCarthy made a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-detention-for-alleged-proud-boy-whose-lawyer-blames-trump-for-capitol-incident\/\" title=\"Judge Orders Detention for Alleged Proud Boy Whose Lawyer Blames Trump for Capitol Incident\">social media showing<\/a> a cute picture of her in a mint green dress while walking with pal Adam Shankman on April 29. She captioned it, \u201cPastels only to honor the incredible [matthewbourne13] at the [ctgla] gala last night with this fella [adamshankman] !! Thiiiiis much closer to my dream of dancing on stage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the comments section, the 82-year-old actress\/singer wrote, \u201cGive [Shankman] my regards, did you take Ozempic?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The post has since been deleted, but <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yashar\/status\/1785164094963888274\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">screenshots<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of the comment are all over social media, with some people suggesting the \u201cFunny Girl\u201d star thought she was sending a direct message [DM] and didn\u2019t realize her post was public.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Omg\u2026this comment from Barbra Streisand.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s real, but she\u2019s deleted it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/icINE1XqI4\">pic.twitter.com\/icINE1XqI4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1785164094963888274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBless her, she thought she was in the DMs,\u201d one <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@olivialilymarks\/video\/7363579199430446368?q=barbra%20streisand&#038;t=1714493266315\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TikToker<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another person on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Komaniecki_R\/status\/1785156620269560221\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  agreed, writing, \u201cOmg somebody please teach Barbra Streisand how to send a DM.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others suggested it was \u201crude\u201d and \u201cnasty,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/radaronline.com\/p\/barbara-streisand-melissa-mccarthy-ozempic-deleted-instagram-post\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RadarOnline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWow really!\u201d one Instagram user wrote. \u201cWhat happened to not talking about Bodies! As a mother of a daughter that\u2019s not ok, we as women need to not focus on appearance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another person responded, \u201cI\u2019m so totally taken aback that you could ask her that on Social Media for all to see? I love and adore you, truly, but that disappointed me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While a third <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-reporter-resigns-amid-allegations-he-used-a-racial-slur-in-2019-ignore-context-and-intent\/\" title=\"New York Times Reporter Resigns Amid Allegations He Used A Racial Slur In 2019, Ignore Context And Intent\">person wrote<\/a>, \u201cDid you actually just have the audacity to ask her that?! Especially right out here on social media!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then there were those on social media who just cracked jokes about what Streisand did, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/fans-roast-barbra-streisand-seriously-misguided-ozempic-comment?utm_brand=glm&#038;utm_social-type=owned&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;mbid=social_twitter_glamourmain\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glamour magazine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBarbra Streisand receives Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event for her groundbreaking, fearless work on Instagram,\u201d one person wrote sarcastically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another person added, \u201cOh my God, Barbra, you can\u2019t just ask people if they\u2019re on Ozempic!\u201d with a GIF from \u201cMean Girls.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then there was the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/itsellemurasaki\/status\/1785335204137017769\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">comment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">someone defending Streisand, suggesting it was just something an \u201c80-year-old New York woman\u201d would say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI really don\u2019t think Barbra Streisand was trying to shade Melissa McCarthy,\u201d one person said. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI just think Barbra is a New York woman, they don\u2019t beat around bushes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbra Streisand faced criticism for questioning Melissa McCarthy about using &#8220;Ozempic&#8221; for weight loss in a now-deleted Instagram post. McCarthy, in a separate social media update, shared a delightful photo of herself in a mint green dress, strolling with friend Adam Shankman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2233834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Barbara-Streisand-Melissa-McCarthy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Barbara-Streisand-Melissa-McCarthy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}