Overview
- After appearing with Sharon Osbourne to accept Ozzy Osbourne’s posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the BRIT Awards on February 28, Kelly Osbourne faced a wave of online abuse about her weight.
- She condemned the attacks on Instagram, calling it a “special kind of cruelty” to target someone “clearly going through something” and said she would not allow herself to be dehumanized.
- Kelly reposted Mia Tyler’s message that “public grief is not public property,” which urged people not to make a grieving person’s body a topic for debate.
- A close friend, hairstylist Lino Carbosiero, publicly asked fans to send Kelly love, echoing friends’ accounts that she is holding herself together during a difficult period.
- Coverage notes Kelly’s previous gastric sleeve surgery and her denials of slimming injections, while experts and commentators highlight that grief can cause visible physical changes such as weight and appetite shifts.