Kathy Bates showcased her slimmed down figure on her latest outing after setting the record straight on Ozempic use.
The 76-year-old actress arrived for a departing flight out of LaGuardia Airport in New York on Friday looking fit as ever.
The Academy Award-winning actress came through the sliding entrance doors dressed in fitted blue jeans with a light brown blazer over a tan shirt.
In keeping with her casual-cool ensemble, the Memphis, Tennessee native added a pair of white sneakers to the fashion mix, along with mirror sunglasses.
Rounding out her overall look, the actress had her gray tresses styled long in the back but pushed back off her face in the front with subtle center part.
Kathy Bates, 76, showed off her dramatic weight loss of 100lbs while making her way into LaGuardia Airport in New York on Friday
As she continued on through the door and into the turnstiles Bates kept up a consistent pace, all while carrying a black purse over her should, which had her cell phone attached to it.
The talented star has been open and honest about her dramatic body transformation, confessing that she ‘feels like a different woman’ after dropping 100 lbs.
Her travel day comes a couple of days after it was announced her new Matlock reboot show on CBS had been renewed for a second season, which came soon after the new series made its premiere.
In a gender flip from the original show starring Andy Griffith, Bates plays Madeline ‘Matty’ Matlock, a widowed lawyer who has just returned to the workforce after a few decades.
The reboot made its debut on September 22, and has since aired two more episodes, which airs on Thursdays at 9 p.m./8c
All the hustle and bustle of doing the show also comes in the wake of all the chatter over Bates’ dramatic weight loss.
Bates says her weight loss has given her a new lease of life and that ‘every day feels like a miracle’, all while maintaining that her body transformation was not due to any kind of overnight sensation, but in fact came about over the course of six years.
During a recent appearance on CBS Mornings, Bates confessed to the show hosts: ‘I feel like a different woman, I really do.’
The Academy Award-winning actress came through the sliding entrance doors at the airport dressed in fitted blue jeans with a light brown blazer over a tan shirt and white sneakers
During a recent appearance on CBS Mornings, Bates confessed to the show hosts : ‘I feel like a different woman, I really do’; the actress is pictured ahead of her appearance on the show
‘I look in the mirror and go, “oh, my gosh”. I went into my costume fittings and I’m wearing a size 10, and it’s so different from being a 3X and being able to walk and move and pick things off the rack.
With more energy due to the weight loss and improved diet, plus the renewal of Matlock, has forced Bates’ rescind her recent talk of retiring from acting.
The Misery star was first inspired to get serious about her health when she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes around 2017, according to People.
It was over the the course of the next seven years that she says she lost 80lbs. that she attributed to changes in her lifestyle and diet.
She then lost another 20 lbs. on Ozempic, which is a prescription medication used to treat type 2 diabetes. It is not approved by the FDA for weight loss, but some physicians have been prescribing it to people trying to shed those nagging pounds.
The Midnight in Paris actress maintains her health and stamina has dramatically improved over the six years she’s lost around 100lbs, after one-time facing diabetes
Bates’ new TV series Matlock has been renewed for a second season following the reboot’s recent premiere on September 22 on CBS, which airs on Thursday’s at 9 p.m./8c
‘There’s been a lot of talk that I just was able to do this because of Ozempic,’ she said during her chat on CBS Mornings.
‘But I have to impress upon people out there that this was hard work for me, especially during the pandemic. It’s very hard to say you’ve had enough.’
The Titanic actress previously stated that she was at her heaviest weight in 2011 when she was starring in the NBC series, Harry’s Law, and admitted, ‘I had to sit down every moment that I could.’
Bates earned her Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Annie Wilkes in the thriller film Misery (1990), directed by Rob Reiner and co-starring James Caan.