‘I’ve gained 2st in 6 months’, Kelly Osbourne opens up on her weight and the REAL reason she moved back to England

THE last time Fabulous saw Kelly Osbourne was at the BRIT Awards in March. She had lost so much weight that we didn’t recognise her.

Small, frail and wearing a wig, she looked so unwell that we were genuinely worried about her – and we weren’t the only ones.

Social media was particularly cruel about her appearance, but of course, Kelly has had more to deal with than most. She was grieving her beloved dad , who died on July 22, 2025, at the age of 76. And just weeks after the awards, she would split from her fiancé, former .

Now, seven months on, is like a different person. She arrives at our shoot with her three-year-old son Sidney, smiling and joking, and looking much more like her old self.

“It’s been the worst year of my life,” she says. “In so many ways, I can’t even explain to you. But it’s also been really beautiful because I’ve learned that my grief is an honour, as I truly love someone that much.

“Do you know that I’ve gained 2st since the BRITs? I didn’t know that I looked like that until I saw the pictures. When I saw them, I couldn’t f**king believe it. I was as shocked as everyone else.”

, who battled her weight in her teens before having gastric sleeve surgery in 2018, admits that it’s hard to have your body up for discussion.

“People are always saying I’m too fat, I’m too thin, I’m too this and too that,” she says.

“People still think I’ve had all this plastic surgery. I’ve not f**king had plastic surgery! The only thing I’ve had is Botox between my eyebrows so that I don’t have 11 lines, and in my jaw because I grind my teeth and it gives me crazy migraines. “Trust me, I want to get rid of this and that, but I’m too scared. What if they f**k it up and I look crazy?

“I know a lot of people, including some close to me, who have done it, and you look f**king nuts,” she giggles.

“Like, nobody’s eyes are that wide. You can’t even f**king blink! This is the face that God and my family gave me, and whether you like it or not, that’s up to you, but I’m alright with it.”

She pauses, then adds: “Although, if I get a chicken neck, I’m getting rid of it. And if my tits get a little bit lower, I need to get them lifted. I wouldn’t get implants though.”

While she agrees that she had become too thin, Kelly thinks that people could have been more compassionate. She explains: “It wasn’t an eating disorder, I just couldn’t do anything for myself. Eating made me feel like I wanted to throw up.

“I’m not asking for kindness, because most people aren’t kind,” she laughs.

“I was just asking for a little bit of understanding, because there’s a lot more to the story than meets the eye.”

As Kelly points out, many still see her as the spiky-haired teen who shot to fame on .

“I’m not a kid any more. I’m 42 this month, and I keep getting treated like a 16 year old, which I find baffling.

“No one knows what people are dealing with in private. I was just sad. I don’t wish that pain on anyone ever. And to do that in front of everyone just sucked.”

Kelly was so desperate that she even begged Ozzy to help her get better.
“I know this sounds woo-woo, but I do candle magic a lot,” she says.

“My dad told me he would send me messages. It felt like everything inside me was dead and I didn’t want my son to see me like this. I went to my dad’s grave with a white candle and I wrote a wish on it, saying: ‘Please help me’.

“The next day, my mum showed up in a black Mercedes with a man in a mustard-coloured jacket. I thought: ‘Oh, here we f**king go again.’ I thought she was going to send me to rehab. But actually what happened was she brought Chris Miller into my life – and he saved me.

“He is a therapist and life coach, and he changed me in so many ways I never thought possible. He tells it like it is. When I am being self-centred, he calls me out.”

London-born Kelly has since moved permanently back to England from LA, not only to be closer to her dad’s grave, but also to give her son a stable childhood.

“We’re building the farm as we speak. Right now, I’m trying to incubate two black swan eggs. Then we’re getting goats so I don’t have to mow the lawn! And I’m going to get two small donkeys and two mini cows. It’s all very idyllic, but animals give me life,” she says.

“I want my son to have a different childhood to mine. At first, when he was younger and we were on the road a lot [with Sidney’s dad’s band Slipknot], I was like: ‘This is great. He gets to grow up just like me.’ And then I thought: ‘No, this actually isn’t healthy for him and this is exposing him to too much. I’ve got to get him home.’

“We always said that if we ever have a child, he’s going to be raised in England. When I moved back to the UK, I finally felt like me again.”
Kelly’s fear of school shootings in America was another factor.

“I don’t ever want to have to explain to my son what you do in school if there’s somebody with a gun. And that’s a genuine reality,” she says.

“So now he goes to a little English country school – the same one I went to before we moved to LA. It’s where I met my best friend and now her kids go there, too. He just loves it.”

And it might be surprising to hear, but former wild child Kelly has completely embraced the role of English village mum.

“I am so involved in the school,” she laughs. “PTA meetings, events, all of it. I never thought I would be this type of mum, but I love all of it. I go to everything school-related.

“And, yes, I’m all over the parents’ WhatsApp groups! I’m always the annoying one going: ‘Yes, I’ll do that’. Then I think: ‘Why did I agree to this?’ I just want to make Sidney happy.”

Watching , you can see he is the entire focus of her world. With his blonde hair and big blue eyes, he is positively angelic, but Kelly is realistic about the fact that he might follow in her hell-raising footsteps.

“I’ve got this all to come,” she laughs. “He’s a true Osbourne. He’s got my dad in him, and I’m like: ‘Thank god’. He has all Dad’s mannerisms.

“He spent the first two years of his life with him because we lived with Mum and Dad, so he’s defiant, independent as f**k, and he won’t let anyone make him be who he’s not,” she says.

“I am so proud. I was crying when I got his school report, because they said how loving, accepting, non-judgemental and caring he is. He is so special.”

Aside from throwing herself into school life, on the advice of her life coach, Kelly’s developed an unusual obsession – falconry.

“Chris was like: ‘Bitch, you don’t even have any fking hobbies. Shopping is not a hobby!’” she jokes. “I’ve always had a connection to birds and bats, so he took me to try falconry. It was the first time since my dad passed that I felt peace.

“It was just incredible to be flying these birds that could potentially kill you. I was flying hawks, owls and eagles.

“I need to finish my training, then I can get a falconry licence. My first bird is going to be a long-eared British owl, then I’ll move on to a proper falcon.

“My friend, who is extremely wealthy, was given one that’s worth about £100k. He said: ‘I don’t know what to do with it, so once you’re done training, take it.’ We’re building the aviary right now. I’ve ordered a special glove and everything. It is such tranquillity for me.”

remains at the forefront of everything Kelly does, and she frequently gets emotional talking about him.

“I knew my dad was famous, but I didn’t f**king realise just how famous he was until he was gone,” she admits.

“And how many lives he touched. Letters came from all over the world. I even got some from prison, which I thought was cool, so I wrote back.

“People told me how my dad’s music saved their lives or it got them through cancer. The amount of lives this man changed just for being himself and writing music that came from his heart, it blows me away.

“I discovered I wasn’t alone in my grief.”

And she has a special connection with her dad’s hometown, too.

“I’ve always got to remember that Birmingham comes first, because that’s what created him. He never forgot where he came from.

“My dad was told he would amount to nothing. He was the smelly kid in the corner wearing a dunce hat. But look what he turned into,” she says.

“He showed that you can do whatever you want if you work hard enough. And that’s the legacy I want to continue – that if you are different, you still belong.

“I do a lot of charity work in Birmingham and I have big plans. I can’t say too much, but it brings me so much joy.

“I’ll never be able to thank the people of Birmingham enough.”

Of course, it isn’t just Kelly who is feeling the loss of Ozzy. Her mum has had to navigate losing her beloved husband of 43 years.

“I think my mum is doing the absolute best that somebody who has lost the love of her life can do,” she sighs.

“When my dad died, he was the happiest I had ever seen him. He went out of this world the way he wanted to.

“His last wish was that he could say thank you to the people that made him who he was and gave us everything that we have.

“He was her reason for living, her whole existence. But she gets up out of bed every day. She tries. She remembers to laugh. She’s still constantly worrying about me.

“The second I had my baby, I understood it. I looked over at her in the delivery room and mouthed: ‘I’m sorry, I get it now,’ because I knew what it was like to love your child so much. “I wasn’t easy growing up. I put my mum through fking hell.”

It’s clear to see Kelly still carries so much pain, but she also seems more focused than ever before.

“I’ve decided that I’m not going to be anything other than myself,” she explains. “I will no longer conform. You either love me or you hate me, and that’s fine.

“But I’m going to make the best of this world. And I’m going to work my f**king ass off and build the companies I want to build.

“I want to do clothing specifically for boys, I want a make-up line, I want to be creative. I’ve got a podcast in the works, I’m going to make TV. There are two shows in the pipeline. I’m also doing a three-part documentary about mental health and what I went through. No one understands grief until they’ve been through it.”

It’s a lesson that Kelly has learned the hard way.

“I’ve lost friends. I’ve been kicked out of WhatsApp groups. People let me down, and that was a kick in the gut. But I’ve learned who my real friends are now,” she says.

“My grief is my biggest badge of honour. I’ll have that pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have to look after anyone any more except my son. That makes me free to do what I want to do.

“I’m going to write my own narrative now. I get to start over. When you’ve been left with nothing, there’s nowhere to go but up.”

Kelly Osbourne is signed with Keye Talent Group.