Melissa McCarthy drew amazed reactions to her apparent weight loss as she hosted Saturday Night Live for the sixth time this weekend. The two-time Oscar nominee opened the long-running NBC sketch show wearing a figure-hugging, black velvet jumpsuit with bejewelled shoulders before being toppled by a huge faux snowstorm during her monologue.
Social media users were quick to comment on her transformed appearance, with one writing: 'Melissa McCarthy! Oh my!! I've had a crush on her forever. I had no idea she had lost this much weight. Still crushing!' Another added: 'Melissa McCarthy is literally snatched for this monologue.'
The appearance comes after Barbra Streisand sparked backlash in 2024 by commenting on a photo of McCarthy on Instagram to ask if she was taking the weight-loss drug Ozempic. McCarthy later addressed the comment, defending the EGOT winner and writing: 'The takeaway — Barbra Streisand knows I exist? She reached out to me. And she thought I looked good. I win the day.'
McCarthy has previously spoken about her attitude to weight loss. In a 2015 interview with CBS Mornings, she said: 'I finally said [to myself], "Oh, for God's sake, stop worrying about it," and it may be the best thing I've ever done. I truly stopped worrying about [my weight]. I stopped over-analyzing, over-thinking, over-doing anything.' She added: 'I just stopped constantly being worried about it, and I think there's something to kinda loosening up and not being so nervous and rigid about it that, bizarrely, has worked.'
