JB Pritzker is opening up his weight loss.
In a new interview with CBS Mornings on Monday (September 21), the 61-year-old Illinois Governor revealed that he’s been using a GLP-1 medication for the last two years to lose weight.
So far, Pritzker said he’s lost 80lbs so far and feels “a whole lot different and a whole lot better.”
“I’ve been overweight most of my life, really, since I was probably 7 or 8 years old,” Pritzker said.
That was around the time his father died of a heart attack at 39.
“He was actually quite an active person, even though he was overweight, and so he was on a tennis court and had a heart attack, and my mother was there, and he died in her arms,” Pritzker recalled.
Given his family history, Pritzker said he’s always kept an eye on his own blood work, but acknowledge that his high-pressure job led him to putting on more weight. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with diabetes, which ultimately led him to start using a GLP-1 medication.
“My doctor said, ‘Oh, no, you’ll never come off of it. You’re going to have to do this the rest of your life, and I recommend that you take a GLP-1,'” he shared.
JB Pritzker in June 2026 / Pritzker in April 2023
Every week, Pritzker injects himself with the GLP-1 medication, and he said he lost weight after the first shot. He also goes for a 4-mile walk along Lake Michigan in Chicago nearly every morning.
“All of a sudden, on the third day, I was like, you know, actually, I don’t need to eat that thing,” Pritzker said. “But it was the strangest feeling. Now, I’m not suggesting everything changed in a week. It didn’t happen that way.”
When asked if he started using the weight loss drug to improve his image before a possible presidential run, Pritzker said, “Ive been driven my whole life to lose weight.”
The fact that I am now able to do it because this GLP-1 became available is truly, like, I mean, it’s something that has meant a lot to me,” Pritzker said. “I have not made any decisions about what I might do in the future. I can tell you I want to be the governor of the state of Illinois for a while longer, and I’m running for reelection.”
He went on to share that Illinois is now covering GLP-1s on the state insurance plan for 55,000 state employees.
Because of this change, he said, “People will be less overweight, which causes so many other diseases.”
The Democrat said that one woman told him the initiative saved her life.
“I have an opportunity just with the platform that I have as governor to tell people that this is something that can work for them,” Pritzker said. “I think they should do it with the doctor’s advice, but I can tell you at least for me it has been really life-changing.”
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