Oprah Winfrey hosted the WeightWatchers 'Making The Shift: A New Way to Think About Weight' event and revealed she regrets contributing to diet culture.
Starr is a News Writer for InStyle. She has worked in pop culture and entertainment since 2017 and has been with InStyle since 2024.Oprah does not have many career regrets, but according to her, the biggest is her past in promoting diet culture.
She later went on to share that one of her "biggest regrets" was continuing the cycle of shame around weight and promoting diet culture as a television show host through her namesake talkshow.“I also want to acknowledge that I have been a steadfast participant in this diet culture through my platforms, through the magazine, through the talk show for 25 years, through online,” she continued. “I've been a major contributor to it.
Winfrey felt it was "important" to tell viewers with the visualization "because I had starved—literally starved —for four months, four and-a-half-months, and thought: 'Well, everybody is going to want to know how you lost the weight so you might as well tell them.'"Now, Winfrey is committed to doing better and notes that sharing her weight loss in that way sent a harmful message.
“I own what I've done, and I now want to do better, so I know now that that ‘wagon of fat’ moment was set into motion after years and years of thinking that my struggle with my weight was my fault,” Winfrey continued. “And it has taken me even up until last week to process the shame that I felt privately as my very public yo-yo diet moments became a national joke.
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