Kathy Bates is continuing to show off the remarkable results of her weight loss journey.
The “Matlock” star, 77, proudly revealed her slimmed-down figure at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. on Sunday night.
Bates, who lost 100 pounds in part thanks to taking Ozempic, wore a black blazer and matching tailored pants, along with a pair of black satin shoes with rhinestone buckles.
The Oscar winner styled her signature gray hair in a sleek updo, while her glam included bold rep lipstick and light black eyeliner.
Bates attended the award show as a nominee for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role in “Matlock.” She lost to “Pluribus” star Rhea Seehorn.
During the ceremony, Bates participated in one of host Chelsea Handler’s bits that poked fun at Timothée Chalamet getting spanked with a ping pong paddle in “Marty Supreme.”
“I heard that he didn’t want a butt double for those spankings in Marty Supreme, so to make things interesting for this evening, someone in this room has a ping pong paddle under their seat. So everyone look and whoever has it gets to spank Timothée at the afterparty tonight,” Handler told the star-studded audience.
Bates, who had the paddle, licked it and mouthed to the camera, “That’s so gross. That’s so gross.”
“I can’t believe I did that!” she added to the crowd.
Bates, who has Type II diabetes, has been open about her weight loss journey, claiming she lost 20 pounds from Ozempic and the other 80 pounds from diet and lifestyle changes.
“There’s been a lot of talk that I just was able to do this because of Ozempic, But I have to impress upon people out there that this was hard work for me, especially during the pandemic,” she said in an interview with People in 2024.
Bates explained she “used to eat terribly” because she had low “self-esteem” but decided to change her ways after seeing how diabetes affected her family members.
During a more recent interview with Variety, Bates slammed people who say she only lost weight from Ozempic.
“It took me years to do this. I got this diagnosis about diabetes — my father died of it; his mother died of it; one of my sisters is in peril,” she shared. “When they said ‘diabetes,’ I figured out what to do to slowly, over years, to lose the weight.”
Bates added, “People say, ‘Well, it was the Ozempic.’ F–k you, it was the Ozempic!”
