Oprah Winfrey addresses her role in diet culture and apologizes during a WeightWatchers special.
," on Thursday, the talk show host acknowledged her role in diet culture and how she is "done with the shaming."
"It sent a message that starving yourself with a liquid diet set a standard for people watching that I nor anybody else could uphold," she said. "And I've said this before, the very next day, I began to gain the weight back." Winfrey continued and said, "It's really hard to love your own body when the whole world is telling you it wasn't worth loving."
In March, after Winfrey decided not to stand for reelection as a member of WeightWatchers' board of directors, the talk show host opened up about weight loss in the ABC special, "" which focused on her weight ups and downs documented publicly over the past several decades.
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