Oprah Winfrey gets emotional about her weight!
During the premiere episode of “The Jamie Kahn Lima Show” podcast, Oprah broke down in tears as she spoke about the importance of ending weight stigma.
Oprah had her own revelation about weight last year, when she said, “I never understood it for the last 49 years that I’ve been battling my weight, but my weight situation has taught me that there’s something in my brain that allows someone like me to metabolize fat differently than other people, and no matter what I do, I always revert to the set point that my brain thinks I need to maintain my weight.”
During the “State of Weight” episode of “The Oprah Daily,” Oprah said she realized her weight was a medical issue and that her weight wasn’t her fault. She commented, “After all these years, all these diets, all these times I’ve tried, it’s not my fault… I’m climbing mountains, I’m suffering, I’m starving, it’s not my fault… It was time, it was 2023.”
Winfrey got teary-eyed and had to grab some tissues.
Winfrey cited a 1988 episode in which she revealed her massive belly fat on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” She recalled, “I went into Optifast and didn’t eat anything for five months to lose weight. After three days I was up five pounds, after a week I was up 10 pounds…I went from weighing 145 on the day of the show to, I think, 157 within a week and a half or two weeks. And the embarrassment started all over again.”
Oprah revealed that she didn’t attend Don Johnson’s holiday party because she thought she was “too fat to go.”
Oprah noted that her weight was covered in the tabloids for 20 years: “Making fun of my weight was a national sport for 25 years. It was acceptable to make fun of me and my weight,” she said.
After all these years, Oprah is “done” with the shame she has been carrying, and she said she “just turned 70 and I don’t intend to carry it for the next 10 years.”
Winfrey now uses an unspecified medication as a “tool” to maintain her weight, saying, “I’ve given up on obsessing about numbers and I just go with my gut. It’s a tool I use when I feel like I’m over a certain point.”