Melissa McCarthy reacted to the backlash against Barbra Streisand after the singer asked McCarthy if she was taking “Ozempic” to lose weight in a since-deleted Instagram post.
In a fun video posted on Instagram, the 53-year-old actress broke her silence about Streisand’s comment while appearing to read a copy of “Barbra: Celebrating an Icon.” She captioned the post, “Barbra Streisand fan club members only!!!”
“The takeaway, Barbra Streisand knows I exist,” McCarthy told her followers in the clip. “She reached out to me and she thought I looked good!”
“I win the day,” she added, while appearing to go back to reading the Streisand book.
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The “Bridesmaids” star’s comments came after Streisand was slammed for asking McCarthy if she had joined the celebrity fad in taking “Ozempic” for weight loss, as previously reported.
In the comments section underneath a picture the “Ghostbusters” star posted of herself, the 82-year-old singer wrote, “Give [Shankman] my regards, did you take Ozempic?”
The post has since been deleted, but screenshots of the comment are all over social media, with some people suggesting the “Funny Girl” star thought she was sending a direct message [DM] and didn’t realize her post was public.
“Bless her, she thought she was in the DMs,” one TikToker wrote.
Another person on X agreed, writing, “Omg somebody please teach Barbra Streisand how to send a DM.”
Others suggested it was “rude” and “nasty,” RadarOnline noted.
“Wow really!” one Instagram user wrote. “What happened to not talking about Bodies! As a mother of a daughter that’s not ok, we as women need to not focus on appearance.”
Then there were those on social media who just cracked jokes about what Streisand did, Glamour magazine noted.
“Oh my God, Barbra, you can’t just ask people if they’re on Ozempic!” one person wrote, with a GIF from “Mean Girls.”
Following reports of a backlash against the superstar, Streisand responded on X that, “OMG I went on Instagram to see the photos we’d posted of the beautiful flowers I’d received for my birthday.”
“Below them was a photo of a friend Melissa McCarthy, who I sang with on my Encore album,” she added. “She looked fantastic! I just wanted to pay her a compliment. I forgot the world is reading.”
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