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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

‘A new consumer’: how weight-loss drugs are shaking up clothes shopping

Superdrug store, London
Wegovy pills at Superdrug’s Strand store in London. Novo Nordisk launched the weight-loss pill in the UK on 6 July. Photograph: David Parry/PA

“I’m now at a point where I’m going to buy even more clothes,” says Hayley Grice, 50, from Shropshire, who has dropped seven sizes after starting on the GLP-1 weight loss jab Mounjaro two years ago. “I’m very happy with my physique right now.”

Grice, the financial director of a business she set up with her husband, tried gastric bypass surgery in 2009, but put most of the weight back on, and had been between UK dress sizes 26 and 28 (US sizes 22 and 24) all her adult life.

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