Jenny Mollen Recalls Having Blood Clots the ‘Size of Dinosaur Eggs’ After Using GLP-1 Drug
Jenny Mollen is still traumatized by her GLP-1 experience after she was hospitalized with blood clots.
“I was microdosing the GLPs. I was also taking other peptides,” Mollen, 47, recalled of the June 2025 incident during an appearance on the Wednesday, June 24, episode of the “Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa” podcast. “But I think that something happens with your period. Maybe it’s just the perimenopausal situation.”
Mollen remembered, “Suddenly I was, like, hemorrhaging. It was, like, blood clots the size of dinosaur eggs. It was so scary.”
The actress, who was married to Jason Biggs at the time, said she “felt like I was laying an egg” when she went to the bathroom. (Us Weekly confirmed in May that Mollen and Biggs called it quits after 18 years of marriage.)
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Jenny Mollen is facing backlash over a post with her 12-year-old son. Mollen welcomed her son Sid with ex Jason Biggs in 2014. The pair also share son Lazlo, 8. Us Weekly confirmed in May that Biggs and Mollen had separated after 18 years of marriage. “They are on great terms and remain focused on […]“You felt it coming out of you,” Mollen said on the podcast. “So I run to the bathroom and I am literally sitting on the toilet and I hear this plop and just blood everywhere.”
Mollen said she was “screaming” for Biggs, 48, to come help her. When he arrived, he couldn’t help but match her energy — the author said her then-husband was “screaming like it’s a horror movie.”
Despite being nervous about what was happening, Mollen revealed she continued to go about her day “having these blood clots” at home.
At night, however, her health deteriorated. “I’m like, baby, ‘I think I’m losing too much blood,’” she recalled telling Biggs.
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Mayim Bialik is opening up about her “GLP-1 nightmare.” “I grew up in the limelight, with my appearance scrutinized weekly from the time I starred in my own NBC show at 14,” Bialik, 50, began in a lengthy essay for The Free Press published on Friday, June 5. “I was blissfully unaware of my weight […]Mollen explained that Biggs was lying in bed and “passed out next to me” and woke up to say, “You’re fine,” noting he had no idea what was happening.
“Meanwhile I walk to the bathroom to try to pee. I have a vasovagal reaction. I passed out on the floor,” Mollen continued. “I’m calling him. I’m like, ‘Jason, Oh, my God, I’m unconscious.’”
Biggs jumped into action, reminding Mollen that their two sons, Sid, 12, and Lazlo, 8, were asleep so he wanted to avoid calling an ambulance and waking them up if possible.
“I’m laid on the bathroom floor. Jason’s like, ‘Jenny you have to get up. You have to let me take you to the car. I’m going to take you to the emergency room,’” Mollen recalled, telling host Kelly Ripa that she “absolutely” could not walk.
Mollen said she fainted again, which is when the American Pie actor called the ambulance and she was transported to the hospital on a gurney.
Mollen and Biggs were able to make it home around 6 a.m. the next morning before their son was sent off to camp, but the experience has remained with her.
“That night was harrowing,” Mollen said on Wednesday.
She noted that the reason she was on a GLP-1 to begin with — along with “a cocktail of peptides” — was because she has hyper thyroid and is autoimmune.
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Jenny Mollen is breaking her silence after her split from Jason Biggs, reflecting on her past “loneliness” while trying to remain in the present. “When you’re young and ambitious, or maybe just middle-aged with ADHD, it feels impossible to appreciate anything while you’re in it,” Mollen, 46, wrote in an essay on her “The Best […]Mollen was on Tirzepatide, a GLP-1 that can regulate a person’s blood sugar, appetite and digestion, and is typically used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity. In recent years, many started to use GLP-1s for weight loss.
“I don’t know if it was the GLP-1 necessarily. I think it was because I think it was messing with my hormones a little bit,” Mollen concluded. “I think had I stayed on it I would have been fine. But getting off it and then back on it is what screwed me.”
Mollen previously opened up about her health scare in June 2025, after returning home from the emergency room.
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Chrissy Teigen is getting candid about a topic that’s dominated headlines, social feeds and Hollywood circles — and this time, she’s sharing her personal story. The model, 39, revealed that she started taking GLP-1 medication Ozempic after she and husband John Legend suffered the devastating loss of their late son, Jack, in 2020. “There I […]“I just posted a follow-up to my piece about Tirzepatide and microdosing,” Mollen wrote via her Instagram Story at the time. “I had a lot of unanswered questions about it [that] just ironically got answered for me in the form of a trip to the ER two nights ago … I’m in such a f***ing haze. It’s been a crazy 48 hours.”
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Prior to her emergency room stay, Mollen expressed concerns about how the GLP-1 was affecting her mental state.
“When I started Tirzepatide, the first thing I noticed was that I was crying more frequently. I couldn’t control the tears that would pour out of me when talking about subjects ranging from kids to open-faced tuna melts,” she wrote via a June 2025 Substack. “I also noticed this underlying anxiety that would, without warning, after no more than one cup of espresso, take over my body and have me pacing in the kitchen like I’d just snorted an eightball of cocaine.”
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Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
