The talk show host opened up in a heartfelt conversation on Jamie Kern Lima's podcast
, the 70-year-old media mogul shared the emotional struggles she has faced and the pivotal moment that changed her perspective on weight loss.
"I've done hundreds of shows about weight loss and had countless conversations about it, but still carried my own shame," she admitted. "I had a big revelation on that State of Weight on Oprah Daily when one doctor after another said obesity is a disease. I was like, 'I didn't get that memo.'"The realization that her weight issues were not purely a matter of willpower was transformative.
Despite the public ridicule, Oprah endured. "I accepted that this thing that people labeled me with—being fat, being overweight, being unable to control my willpower—was my identity," she said."For 25 years, making fun of my weight was a national sport. Comedians did it, the best comedians did it, the highest comedians did it—people with their shows did it. It was just accepted.
Now, Oprah uses medication to maintain her weight, though she doesn't disclose which one. She feels liberated by this decision."The bottom line is we don't know what the medications do in the long term, but we do know what obesity does in the long term," she pointed out. "Yes, so the damage to your body versus taking the risk of 'I'm going to control the weight and manage the weight to the best of my ability.
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