Kelly Osbourne is standing up to her detractors with the support of her mother, Sharon Osbourne. Together, they joined British broadcaster Piers Morgan to discuss the final days of their late husband, the rock icon Ozzy Osbourne. During the interview, Morgan shared an Instagram clip of Kelly slamming online critics who had been commenting on her dramatic weight loss, saying she's been struggling to eat since her dad's passing on July 22nd.
"To those who think they're being funny and cruel by writing comments like 'Are you ill?' or 'Get off Ozempic, you don't look right,' I want to say this: my dad just died, and I'm doing the best I can. The only thing I have to live for right now is my family. And I choose to share my content with you, showcasing the happy side of my life, not the miserable side," Kelly said in the now-deleted clip. She added, "So to all those people, 'f--- off.'"
Sharon quickly agreed and defended her daughter. "She's right," Sharon said around the 54-minute mark. "She's lost her daddy, and she can't eat right now."
Kelly, 41, who first rose to fame as a 15-year-old on her family's reality show The Osbournes, has long been open about her struggles with body image and weight. Speaking to PEOPLE last May, she got candid about being constantly targeted and harassed for her appearance.
"I have been a drug addict, an alcoholic...I’ve been a complete mess, disrespectful to people, horrible—but I got more s--- for being fat than I did for anything else. It’s insane," she told attendees. "You’ll never read an article about me that doesn’t have a comment about my weight," she continued, saying that it was just as bad when she was heavier as it is now that she's skinny.
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. She noted that the insults took their toll mentally. "I tried probably everything that there is out there, whether it be surgery, medication, diet and exercise," she explained. "I got my mind where I needed it to be, and everything started to fall into place," she said.
Osbourne previously told PEOPLE that during her pregnancy with Sid, she stayed inside for the entire nine months for fear of being labeled fat. "I gained 100 lbs.," Osbourne said. "Long story short, I saw what they did to Jessica Simpson and I thought it was disgusting." She was so frightened that it would happen to her too that she hid. "I 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."
Osbourne noted that there was a plus side to staying lowkey during pregnancy: getting to bond with her dad Ozzy. "My partner Sid [Wilson] was on tour, so I just moved back in with my parents and hung out with my dad and we did everything together," she said. "We played Jenga, we played cards, we had like 20 different TV shows we were watching at once. He would go on my diet and I'd go on his diet, and then we'd work out in the pool together because his physical therapy was similar to what I was supposed to be doing. We had the best time together."
