Oprah Winfrey reveals going on liquid diet and facing shame over her weight

Oprah Winfrey has been candid about her weight-loss journey. The 70-year-old TV personality has opened up about how for over two decades her weight has been a point of discussion.

“For 25 years, making fun of my weight was a national sport.”

Winfrey opened up on her dieting on An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution, an ABC special discussing obesity drugs.

The iconic TV personality said in the 1980s and ’90s, tabloids were smeared with headlines like “fatter than ever,” “hits 246 pounds,” “final showdown with Steadman sends her into feeding frenzy” and “Oprah warned: diet or die.”

Winfrey also said she was described on a 1990 cover of TV Guide as “bumpy, lumpy and downright dumpy” by fashion critic Mr Blackwell.

Winfrey recalled said she once starved herself on a liquid diet “in an effort to combat the shame” for nearly five months in 1988 “and then wheeled out that wagon of fat (on her show) that the internet will never let me forget and after losing 67 pounds on a liquid diet, next day, y’all, the very next day, I started to gain it back.”

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She had earlier admitted to having taken prescribed drugs to help manage her weight.

The former daytime host discussed the “disease of obesity” with experts during the show in which several guests were brought on to talk about their experiences with obesity and losing weight on medications like Ozempic and Wegovy.