Oprah Winfrey’s striking weight loss has led to speculation she’s been using a weight-loss drug like Wegovy, or a diabetes drug like Ozempic or Mounjaro, which are known to induce weight loss. Now, the talk show host has confirmed that’s the case.
In an exclusive interview with People, published Wednesday, Winfrey credited an anti-obesity medication, in part, for her much slimmer figure, though she did not specify which treatment she is taking.
“I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing,” she told People.
“The fact that there’s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for. I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself.”
Winfrey said she took the medication before Thanksgiving “because I knew I was going to have two solid weeks of eating,” she told People, and “instead of gaining eight pounds like I did last year, I gained half a pound. … It quiets the food noise.”
She’s now 7 pounds away from her goal weight of 160 pounds.
Earlier this year, Winfrey revealed she once thought taking a weight-loss drug would be “the easy way out.”
“There’s a part of me that feels … I’ve got to do it the hard way. I’ve got to keep climbing the mountains. I’ve got to keep suffering. I’ve got to do that because otherwise I somehow cheated myself,” Winfrey, 69, said in September during a panel on Oprah Daily, called “The State of Weight.”
It was after that discussion that she changed her mind about using a weight-loss drug, Winfrey told People: “I realized I’d been blaming myself all these years for being overweight, and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control.”
Obesity is a disease, she added: “It’s not about willpower — it’s about the brain.”
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