- charlotte gallagher
- culture reporter
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Oprah Winfrey says she has “suffered from being overweight and obese for years”
Oprah Winfrey has spoken of the “shame” she experienced after being “ridiculed” about her weight.
Speaking about her weight and obesity in a TV special, the American broadcaster and actress said she would “never forget” being called “lumpy, lumpy, dumpy” on the cover of a magazine. Ta.
Winfrey, 70, lost a significant amount of weight through medication and praised weight loss drugs.
However, she did not reveal which one she would use.
The Oprah Special: Shame, Blame, and the Weight Loss Revolution, which aired on ABC, emotionally describes the pain of being humiliated by late-night talk show hosts and tabloids for 25 years. Winfrey was shown in the video.
She read out previous headlines about her, including “Oprah: Fattest You've Ever Been” and “Oprah Warns: 'Diet or Die.'”
“Never in my life would I have dreamed that we would be talking about a drug that would offer hope to people like me who have struggled with overweight and obesity for years,” Winfrey said. praised.
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Winfrey attended the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding as a guest.
She became emotional as she explained that the drug gives people a “sense of hope” by “not blaming themselves”.
Winfrey added, “So that we can start releasing the stigma, shame, and judgment so that we can stop shaming others for being overweight and the choices we make to lose weight or not.” .
The media mogul said she made the decision to quit the Weight Watchers board because she didn't want to be “considered a conflict of interest” on the ABC television special.
She also donated her Weight Watchers stock to the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.
Winfrey has also been candid about her attempts to lose weight and how she fasted for “almost five months” in 1988 and then went on a talk show to show off a mass of animal fat equal to the weight she lost. Told.
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Star said she's been ridiculed by every late-night talk show host for 25 years
Winfrey ended the broadcast by saying, “Let's stop shaming and blaming. There's no place for that.”
The host hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show, which aired from 1986 to 2011 and became one of the most successful shows in U.S. television history.
His 1993 interview with Michael Jackson was watched by 90 million viewers, and it was on Katie Holmes' TV couch that Tom Cruise jumped on to declare his love for her in 2005.
Winfrey was invited to Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan's wedding. And her very personal 2021 interview with them (a two-hour special on CBS) generated global headlines.
