Oprah admits she used weight loss drugs to reach her goal...
From People
"The fact that there's a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift," Winfrey tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story
Oprah Winfrey is no stranger to scrutiny over her weight. For as long as she has been in the public eye, the icon’s body journey has played out in the media, on magazine covers and on episodes of her own eponymous hit talk show that ran for 25 seasons.
"It was public sport to make fun of me for 25 years," Winfrey tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. "I have been blamed and shamed, and I blamed and shamed myself."
One hurtful moment came early in her career, when she landed on acerbic fashion critic Mr. Blackwell’s list. "I was on the cover of some magazine and it said, 'Dumpy, Frumpy and Downright Lumpy,' " recalls the co-producer of the new filmThe Color Purple. (Winfrey starred in the original 1985 film.) "I didn’t feel angry. I felt sad. I felt hurt. I swallowed the shame. I accepted that it was my fault." No more, she says.
Winfrey, who turns 70 next month, is optimistic that she now has a better handle on how to maintain a healthy weight long-term and rid herself of shame once and for all. Using a holistic approach that includes regular exercise and other lifestyle tweaks, Winfrey confirms she has also added a weight-loss medication to her regimen.
Weight fluctuations "occupied five decades of space in my brain, yo-yoing and feeling like why can’t I just conquer this thing, believing willpower was my failing," says Winfrey, whose dogged rehabilitation after knee surgery in 2021 kick-started what has been steady weight loss over the last two years.
"After knee surgery, I started hiking and setting new distance goals each week. I could eventually hike three to five miles every day and a 10-mile straight-up hike on weekends," she says. "I felt stronger, more fit and more alive than I’d felt in years."
Now, she says, "I eat my last meal at 4 o’clock, drink a gallon of water a day, and use the WeightWatchers principles of counting points. I had an awareness of [weight-loss] medications, but felt I had to prove I had the willpower to do it. I now no longer feel that way."
18 comments:
When did Oprah get so light? I know, lighting and makeup. LOL
She using Ozympic too? And Halle must’ve went into labor. I didn’t see her in any of the pics.
Notice how those ankles are never exposed🧐
Her ankle is exposed in the 1st picture of the slide. She’s beside Tyler Perry. I must admit, I zoomed in. Her cankle is gone.
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I don’t think I’m ready for a SKINNY Oprah.
New and improved Spanks
Just wait...in a few years there will be lawsuits over those diet drugs just like Phen-fen. If you're not diabetic you should NOT be using Ozempic. As soon as you stop taking it you will gain the weight back plus some.
Where Steadman at?
Good for her.
So?
Nobody cares about her health and longevity as much as Steadman does.
Watch how mad people are going to be when The Color Purple The Musical doesn't win any Oscar's
At least she didn’t get back on the pipe this time. 😮💨
@9:00 IKR I remember PP and almost everyone I knew during that time said they wasted their money and got bigger than before. When I was seeing my sports medicine Dr he wanted to put me on ozempic but I guess my insurance didn't cover it. I'm glad for that because I hear it causes hair loss. Now I'm back to more veggies and good old fashioned exercise LOL.
They have one out that is for losing weight and it works like
ozempic.
Her weight wacthers stock should go down because she didn't use her WW plan as an example for losing.
This is the kind of random, personal story that people broadcast when they have projects that they want to bring mass, public attention to. I'm still not interested in the film. Y'all can have it.
Ms Thing likes to eat bread that's her problem. Have you ever seen her chew. Lawd she look like cow.
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