No, Miranda Lambert isn’t hawking these weight-loss gummies

A recent Facebook post makes it seem as if a popular country singer is revealing her silver bullet for weight loss, but that claim falls apart with only a little scrutiny. 

"Miranda Lambert’s handing out free belly melt kits!" reads the description of a video in a June 7 Facebook post.

In the video, a narrator who supposedly is Lambert says she got a call from celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz "offering a simple way to get back my figure." The solution? Weight-loss gummies. 

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We reached out to Lambert and didn’t immediately hear back. 

But we found no credible online evidence connecting Lambert and Oz, or to support the claim that she’s "handing out free belly melt kits." 

At one point, the video shows two photos of Lambert. The first photo describes her as "after three weeks" of using the gummies and the second photo, in which she appears slimmer, describes her as "after five weeks." 

But a reverse-image search showed us the first photo was taken in 2022, and the photo purportedly shot two weeks later was taken in 2015.

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The video urges viewers to click on a "learn more" button in the post, so we did. It led to a website called Bas Microtech Inc., which advertised "nail scrubbers" and other nail products. No mention of weight loss, gummies or Lambert.

In 2019, Lambert’s Twitter account warned fans to "be aware there are lots of scammers on the internet that create fake accounts, pretend to be Miranda, and ask for money." It listed her sole social media accounts, none of which are connected to this weight loss post or product. 

Fact-checking site Lead Stories recently examined a similar claim in which Lambert was allegedly hawking a weight loss "mineral," and a representative told the outlet that "these are scam videos — it is not Miranda’s voice promoting the product and she is not affiliated with any such products. Her lawyer is actively working to get them taken down, however new versions continue to pop up daily." 

We rate this post False.