Brooks Nader’s Sisters Hold Intervention Over Weight Loss Drugs

Brooks Nader and her sisters are always looking out for each other.

In episode 7 of their new reality series Love Thy Nader, the girls began to worry about Brooks, 28, after noticing a decline in her health. When the model almost passed out during a brand deal with a workout class, she admitted that it was a side effect of a medication she had been taking.

“I typically micro-dose GLP-1, this weight loss drug,” Brooks explained. “But now since I have Maxim coming up, and I’m probably gonna be half-naked, I’m upping my dose a little because I want to be extra snatched. But at the same time, the symptoms of the weight loss drug, they’ve gotten a lot worse recently.”

Mary Holland, 26, acknowledged that Brooks felt the need to take the drug “to maintain that success” in the modeling industry but said “she’s taking it a bit too far.”

GLP-1 is short for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, which work in the brain to impact satiety. They are often prescribed for obesity or diabetes and lead to weight loss by reducing appetite and improving how the body breaks down sugar and fat. The medications have gained popularity in and out of Hollywood among individuals seeking to lose a few pounds.

After the exercise class, the sisters found Brooks in the bathtub struggling to stay awake. 

“She didn’t eat last night and she didn’t eat anything today,” Grace Ann, 25, exclaimed after empathizing with Brooks in a confessional: “There is an enormous amount of pressure in the modeling industry in order to be a working model. I’ve felt it, everyone’s felt it. But Brooks puts an unrealistic amount of pressure on herself in order to maintain her appearance.”

While Brooks said “it’s not that big of a deal,” her sisters didn’t buy it.

“I’m nauseous, I’m tired,” Brooks said. “I do this all the time. I do, it’s fine.”

“I’m seriously worried about her,” Grace Ann shared, adding that the Dancing with the Stars alum is “really fatigued, she’s passing out, she’s throwing up.”

The next day, Grace Ann decided to have an intervention with Brooks after she and Mary Holland found a basket of needles and several bottles of the weight loss drug.

“Just seeing all of the needles piled up in one place makes me realize the gravity of how deep she’s gone in it,” Mary Holland said. “This is different doctors, clearly. This is different pharmacies.” 

“That’s dangerous,” she added. “She’s overprescribed. This amount is so concerning.”

Sarah Jane, 23, admitted to also taking GLP-1 in the past, but said “clearly something deeper is going on” with Brooks.

Still, Sarah Jane also didn’t think her sisters understood how much pressure Brooks feels to look a certain way. “Modeling is something you don’t just get, you have to work for it,” she explained. “As sad as it is, there’s an unrealistic beauty standard to reach, and this helps you get there.”

Later that day, a psychologist arrived to mediate the conversation, which caught Brooks off guard.

“You’re using GLP-1 and not eating and so you’re tired, you can’t really complete a workout,” Grace Ann began before Brooks interjected: “You guys shouldn’t be throwing stones because you’ve tried it and so have you,” she said, pointing to Sarah Jane and Mary Holland.

They didn’t deny it, but they said her “dosage has become a problem.”

“Why do you think I’m on GLP-1?” Brooks continued. “Because every job I do, it’s like you have to fit into a certain standard and a certain measurement and they’re straight up measuring my hips for all these new fashion jobs I’m getting into in Paris and Milan. There’s requirements I don’t meet. And I know how vapid this industry is and if I say no to it, they’re just going to pick someone else.”

Brooks revealed that she knows “more models that are on it than aren’t,” and said agencies are “encouraging them.”

“My career has just started to take off, and I don’t think that it’s a coincidence that it just started to take off once I altered myself and lost weight, fixed my nose,” Brooks noted. “All the things my team told me I needed to change, I did.”

Despite acknowledging that she needed to take care of herself, Brooks insisted on staying on the medication and only drinking bone broth until her upcoming magazine cover shoot.

“I know my sisters are coming from a place of love, I just find that you don’t know until you’re in that position how to handle it,” she said, later confessing, “I think that I have maybe an unhealthy relationship with weight and food because of the industry that I’m in, but I don’t think that I have an eating disorder.”

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New episodes of Love Thy Nader will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Freeform. The entire season is available to stream on Hulu now.