Overview
- This week, videos and photos from Moreno’s past plus-size modeling, including a PrettyLittleThing runway in Miami Swim Week, circulated widely on social platforms and drew attention back to her modeling history.
- Some viewers quickly speculated that Moreno’s change in appearance was due to Ozempic or other weight-loss drugs, a claim that has not been independently verified.
- Members of Moreno’s family publicly rejected the drug-use allegations, with a cousin posting “no Ozempic” on X and her sister saying Moreno has always had high self-esteem.
- Moreno cannot immediately respond from inside the Love Island USA villa because contestants have limited phone access while filming in Fiji, so the conversation has played out mostly on social media and in tabloid reporting.
- Experts and industry voices say the episode highlights wider tensions about body-image, representation and the way archival images are reinterpreted when someone gains visibility, a pattern some scholars call “Celebrity Wasting Syndrome.”