Barbra Streisand: Melissa McCarthy Ozempic question was meant to be a ‘compliment’

Barbra Streisand defended herself aft she faced backlash for asking Melissa McCarthy if she was connected Ozempic.

“OMG – I went connected Instagram to spot nan photos we’d posted of nan beautiful flowers I’d received for my birthday!” Streisand began successful a connection shared to her Instagram Story connected Tuesday.

“Below them was a photograph of my friend Melissa McCarthy who I sang pinch connected my Encore album,” she continued. “She looked fantastic! I conscionable wanted to salary her a compliment. I forgot nan world is reading!’

The “Yentl” actress, 82, caught immoderate superior power erstwhile she publically asked nan invasive mobility successful nan comments conception of 1 of McCarthy’s Instagram photos.

The “Gilmore Girls” alum, 53, shared a stunning photograph of herself wearing a pastel greenish dress layered nether a matching blazer arsenic she posed beside her choreographer, Adam Shankman, extracurricular nan Centre Theatre Group Gala.  

“Pastels only to grant nan unthinkable @matthewbourne13 astatine nan @ctgla gala past nighttime pinch this fella @adamshankman !! Thiiiiis overmuch person to my dream of dancing connected shape 💃🏻💚,” McCarthy captioned nan station connected Monday.

Streisand replied to nan image, writing, “Give him my regards did you return Ozempic?”

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The “Funny Girl” prima swiftly deleted her remark but critics continued to lambast her for asking specified a individual mobility astir McCarthy’s weight loss.

“Babs. No, honey. Just no,” 1 personification wrote, pinch different defender of nan comedian joking, “Babs typing distant connected IG for illustration my aged mom telling maine she matter personification something, and maine explaining: ‘No, mom, you wrote it connected FB connected your wall for each to spot 😂😂.'”

“Major boomer aunt pinch vino and an ipad energy,” different agreed.

Still, respective fans jumped to Streisand’s defense arsenic they were convinced she meant nary sick will toward McCarthy.

McCarthy has been unfastened astir her weight nonaccomplishment travel successful nan past. The “Bridesmaids” character and moreover admitted that she has been “every size connected nan planet.”

She accomplished a 70-pound driblet successful weight by going connected a dreadful all-liquid diet and successful 2015 she told Life & Style that she shed 50 pounds by changing her mindset connected wellness and wellness.

“I genuinely stopped worrying astir it,” she said astatine nan time. “I deliberation there’s thing to kinda loosening up and not being truthful tense and rigid astir it that, bizarrely, has worked.”