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Ozzy Osbourne’s death has left his widow and daughter shells of their former selves — and family friends say they are “really worried.”
“I see these photos and it’s horrifying,” a music industry source who knows the Osbournes told Page Six of recent pictures of Kelly Osbourne, 41. “I didn’t recognize her.”
While people have been shocked by Kelly’s weight loss over the past year — and especially since her father died from a heart attack last July amid his battle with Parkinson’s disease — reactions have been even more extreme over the past couple of months.
“Even if you’d never heard of the Osbournes you’d have been extremely bewildered — and alarmed — by why this cadaverous-looking woman was up on stage, next to her similarly frail mother, instead of under strict medical care,” The Times of London columnist Hadley Freeman wrote after Kelly and mom Sharon’s Feb. 28 appearance at the 2026 BRIT Awards.
“It was shocking. I don’t know what’s going on,” the music industry source said of Kelly’s appearance. “I’m really worried for her. I saw the photos and I was like, ‘Wow, what the hell happened to her?’ She looks unwell.
“Is there more to it beyond grief?”
Sharon and Kelly did not respond to requests for comment.
Kelly has repeatedly insisted that her ultra skinny figure is due to grieving her father’s death, with Sharon saying her daughter “lost her daddy … she can’t eat right now.”
The source said they were “really worried” about both women, as Sharon also looks much thinner than before.
The 73-year-old has been candid about her weight loss journey over the years, revealing she’s taken medication and undergone gastric band surgery.
In 2023, she said she was struggling to put on weight after getting off of Ozempic, the prescription medication approved by the FDA for weight loss related to Type 2 diabetes.
She admitted to the Daily Mail that she felt “too gaunt,” and has said that her weight dipped below 100 pounds. At her heaviest, Sharon told E! she weighed 230 pounds.
“The trouble is, she eats now but she can’t eat enough to put the weight back on,” the family source said.
Ozzy, a family insider said, had urged Sharon to stop taking the drug after she lost a considerable amount of weight.
“This was the thing that pissed Ozzy off with Sharon,” the family insider said. “He kept saying, when she went on the jabs and had her surgeries, ‘Will you please stop?’ Ozzy was the one who put his foot down.”
Sharon herself has said that Ozzy was “scared that something was going to happen to me” and that “he [didn’t] like” the weight loss.
And, Kelly, whose weight has also fluctuated over the years, may have been influenced by her mother, the family source claimed: “Kelly lived with Sharon after the death of Ozzy and I think she just copied her.”
Ozzy is buried on the grounds of the family’s 250-acre estate, Welders House, in Buckinghamshire, England.
Kelly primarily lives with her fiancé, Slipknot rocker Sid Wilson, and 3-year-old son, Sidney, on a farm in Iowa.
Ozzy, Sharon and their kids — Kelly, son Jack, now 40, and daughter Aimee, 42 — lived in Beverly Hills for year, including while filming their MTV reality show “The Osbournes” from 2002 to 2005.
“Ozzy hated LA,” the family insider said.
Growing up with that level of public scrutiny, the music industry source said, took a toll on Kelly.
“Every pimple you have is under the light. It’s really a freak show,” the source said. “I don’t know how you escape that with any sense of normalcy.”
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Kelly, who endured public shaming over being too heavy while the show was on the air, has admitted that she underwent gastric sleeve surgery for weight loss in 2018 and denied taking Ozempic.
She has said on the Scheananigans with Scheana Shay podcast that, after being pregnant with her son and developing gestational diabetes, “I was on a mission after having the baby to lose all my baby weight. And then I was like, well I lost all the baby weight, lets see how far I can go with it. [I] went a little bit too far but [I] stopped.”
Kelly also admitted to having had Emsculpt treatment, a non-invasive procedure that claims to use electro-magnetic energy to burn fat and build muscle.
Online commentary about the former “Fashion Police” co-host’s frail appearance got so loud after the BRITs and Grammys — where she said on the red carpet, “I’m not doing so great” — in February that Kelly took to Instagram to address it.
“There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something. Kicking me while I’m down, doubting my paint, spreading my struggles as gossip, and turning your back when I need support and love most,” she said.
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