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The use of GLP-1 medications to lose weight may have solved one body-image issue, but in exchange it seems to have introduced a new one. Meet “Ozempic face,” the extremely tactful name for a set of cosmetic side effects that includes sagging skin, sunken eyes, thin lips, deeper wrinkles, and a more gaunt appearance. The phrase is actually a misnomer—Ozempic face can happen to anyone who experiences rapid weight loss for any reason at all. But GLP-1s are so effective and so speedy that, as they’ve revolutionized weight loss, more and more people are winding up in plastic surgeons’ offices , trying to reclaim the youthful face they traded to get rid of the extra po

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