On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Claudia Oshry: How to Stop Letting Your Body Image Hold You Back & Build Lasting Confidence
Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Do you ever feel held back by body image? What’s one thing that instantly boosts your confidence? Today, Jay welcomes Claudia Oshry, a comedian, podcaster, and social media personality. Claudia is the co-host of the extremely popular podcast "The Toast" and has gained a large following on Instagram for her relatable and often self-deprecating posts. Claudia has been open about her personal life, including her struggles with body image and her journey to motherhood. Claudia opens up about the misconceptions surrounding her online persona, her journey with Ozempic, and her decision to embrace motherhood. She discusses the challenges of vulnerability on social media and the importance of self-acceptance and living life on your own terms and finding fulfillment. Jay and Claudia share their personal experiences with weight and body image, revealing the societal pressures and internal struggles they have faced. They explore the complexities of Claudia's weight loss journey and decide to use Ozempic openly in the public eye. Claudia shares her personal transformation and the newfound confidence she gained through her weight loss journey. In this interview, you'll learn: How to Overcome Misconceptions How to Embrace Vulnerability How to Deal with Weight Stigma How to Build Confidence How to Find the Right Partner Remember, it's okay to seek support and share your struggles. Embrace your true self, live life on your own terms, and never stop pursuing your dreams. With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty Join over 750,000 people to receive my most transformative wisdom directly in your inbox every single week with my free newsletter. Subscribe here. Join Jay for his first ever, On Purpose Live Tour! Tickets are on sale now. Hope to see you there! What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 02:27 How It Feels to Be Misunderstood 04:57 Protect Your Own Peace 06:56 What is Fat Camp? 08:34 The Struggle of Losing Weight 12:38 Responsible Use of Ozempic 16:20 Struggle with Self Image and Confidence 19:36 How Does Getting Pregnant Feel? 24:18 Getting Ready to Start a Family 30:46 Friends Change Throughout Your Life 33:08 Choosing What to Share About Your Life 39:45 Becoming a Content Creator 42:45 Learnings from the Corporate Life 46:16 Building a Brand as a One-Man Team 49:26 Smart Advice for Content Creators 52:49 Just Get Started 55:08 Stability is Beneficial in Running a Business 58:04 Running a Business with Family 01:01:44 How to Record a Good Episode 01:03:27 Know When to Listen 01:07:11 The Worst Type of Humor 01:10:46 Greatest Lesson from Grief 01:14:50 The Girl with a Dead Dad 01:18:37 The Dangers of Exposing Children Online 01:21:30 Claudia on Final Five Episode Resources: Claudia Oshry | Website Claudia Oshry | TikTok Claudia Oshry | Instagram Claudia Oshry | Youtube Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst MonsterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: How does Claudia Oshry address misconceptions about herself?
And that's why I feel so grateful that I very naturally came to the conclusion that I'm ready. My husband was amazing about it. If I had said to him five years ago, let's have a kid, he'd say, okay. If I said to him this, he was really letting me lead, which I so appreciate. He never put pressure on me to either wait longer or hurry up. Same with our families. Nobody really tortured us about it.
And I know a lot of girls get like, endless harassment from their parents and their in-laws. I'm like, I didn't get that. And I'm so grateful because I really came to the conclusion on my own. So no, I don't look around and I don't look at social media and see people on trips and flying out of planes and think, oh, I wish that was me. I'm like, you know what? I did my time.
Honestly, that video makes me tired. I want to go take a nap.
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Walk me through that internal dialogue of like, how do you get to that place of feeling ready? I think so many of us are waiting to feel ready in life, whether it's waiting to feel ready to start a podcast, whether it's waiting to write your book, whether it's waiting to have a kid, whether it's waiting to get married and you're, we're just waiting.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Claudia face with her weight loss journey?
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You love the 1% evil. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's so beautiful to hear. I mean, to hear you say, hey, you know what? I'm actually really confident. I love hearing that. I love it when someone says that because- It's a journey. Yeah. No, but I mean, not that you've arrived because there is no arrival, but the idea that you feel that way-
I mean, that doesn't mean that I don't see a picture of myself and literally want to die, but I try not to place too much value on that because there are other parts of me that are worthy, probably more worthy than how I look. But I am a shallow person. I do place a lot of emphasis and value on my physical appearance.
Yeah. Is that something you've ever tried to change or shift or you've just accepted it?
It's actually like a new thing. I think since losing weight, I've kind of become obsessed with it. And that's like one thing that I've gained during my weight loss journey that I don't like. The obsession with how I look. Because before, like I knew I didn't look great. So like whatever, you know, I worked on other things.
But then I started to really like the way that I looked on the Ozempic journey and I kind of became obsessed with it. Like I used to weigh myself and be like, I mean, it's not great, but whatever. Then I would lose weight and... when I would weigh myself and it wasn't exactly what I wanted, I would be so hard on myself. And I used to not care about that.
So that's actually something I'm working on. But with a pregnancy, like it's a problem for later me.
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Chapter 3: How did Claudia's perspective on body image evolve with Ozempic?
Yeah, well, they'll love it until they're like four.
Oh, of course. No, I'm talking about year one.
Yeah, year one. One fan for one year is good enough. I love that. I love that. And have you thought about whether you're going to be sharing baby journey online?
I have thought about it. I definitely want to share my journey. I'm pretty against, you know, putting your kids on social media. I don't judge other people who do, but I'm not going to. And I feel like I see a trend of people sharing less and actually pulling their kids off social media because the dangers of it are like so obvious.
Yeah, I know. That's something me and Riley talk about a lot. I would love to. It's one of our discussion points.
If the internet wasn't such a disgusting place, I would love to, like have fun. But no, we can't have nice things. People are disgusting and absolutely not.
Yeah, it's challenging. It's such a, yeah, that's the hard part, right? That's the hard part that it's like in the same way as you wouldn't just put your kid up somewhere physically in that way that they're exposed to anyone and everyone.
Yeah, and they just actually passed that law in California about like family channels and Demi Lovato was a big part of it of like just child actors, but also...
child like family channels like basically exploiting your kids on social media for money I they're they're all still actively happening but I feel like in 10-15 years like we are going to be hearing like the most craziest stories about kids who were forced to be on like YouTube family channels it's disgraceful um but it's also a slippery slope like you know like you start posting your kids and that's the most engaging content so you post more and more and more and then you rely on it to pay your bills so you're yelling at your kids to smile for the thumbnail and I never want I never want to be that
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