Bonnie Chapman – the daughter of Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman and his late wife, Beth Chapman – talks candidly about her dramatic weight loss.

In a E! News interview published on Sunday, November 24, the A&E alumna, 25, opened up about her lifelong struggles with weight and how she lost 60 pounds. in 10 months using the weight loss drug Tirzepatide.

Chapman told the outlet that she’s been “trying to lose weight since I was probably 18” through various means, like Mediterranean diet and the Paleo diet. The content creator said she previously tried Ozempic, but stopped because she “hated it.”

Chapman then tried Tirzepatide in December 2023 after consulting with his medical team and “lost about 10 pounds” after two weeks.

Chapman attributed some of her weight issues to her diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which is a “hormonal imbalance that occurs when your ovaries create excess hormones,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

The medical center noted that “between 40% and 80% of people with PCOS have obesity and have difficulty maintaining a weight that is right for them.”

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“I felt like my hormones were trying to keep up, and it was just making things worse,” she said of her past attempts to lose weight. “I would gain more weight when I worked out. I would try these workouts to balance hormones, and they wouldn’t do anything. I would try going to saunas. But I felt like nothing was working. worked.”

She has since found that the weight loss drug helped reduce her cravings and she reached her goal weight of 130 pounds, sharing that she started at 196 pounds.

Chapman said: “Once I started finding that I was getting full a lot less quickly, I was able to eat half a portion of my meal. And I was like, ‘Okay, I’m good . I feel really fulfilled.’ ‘ ”

The reality star said her relationship with food deteriorated after she lost his mother to throat cancer in 2019 and again when his house burned in April 2023.

“I just didn’t feel healthy, I didn’t feel good,” Chapman recalled. “I used food as comfort for most of my life and realized I couldn’t do that anymore. I need to make healthier changes so I can be here with the people I love longer. ”

On November 2, Chapman shared a video on Instagram tackle your weight loss. She shared that Tirzepatide encouraged her to make healthier decisions when it came to her diet.

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“Sometimes when I ate something too sweet, I didn’t feel good afterwards, and I realized that if I want to feel good all the time, I should put things in my body that I would be proud to say that I ate,” she said in the video.

She also noted that she plans to focus on other fitness goals now that she’s reached her goal weight.

“I think I’m more about toning my new body, and I want to make sure that if I have any residual fat, I can remove it,” she explained.