Oprah Winfrey’s slimmed-down frame can be credited to weight loss medication and a holistic approach, the media mogul told People magazine in an interview published Wednesday.
Winfrey said she uses the medication “as a tool” to manage her weight as she sheds pounds, admitting to People in an exclusive interview that she had to overcome her own “shame about it.”
“I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing,” she said.
“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,” she continued. “I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself.”
Winfrey chose not to share what medication she’s on. Recently, Ozempic and Mounjaro have made headlines for helping people achieve slimmer figures. Doctors have been prescribing the Type 2 diabetes medication off-label for shedding pounds. Another drug, Wegovy, has been specifically approved for losing weight.
Winfrey has for decades shared her weight loss journey and struggle to slim down. In a discussion posted in September, she opened up about the idea of using medication to lose weight.
“I felt, ‘I got to do this on my own. I got to do this on my own because if I take the drug that’s the easy way out,'” she told a panel on Oprah Daily called “The State of Weight.”
“I’ve got to do it the hard way. I’ve got to keep climbing the mountains. I got to keep suffering, I got to do that because otherwise I somehow cheated myself,” she continued.
That conversation was a turning point, she told People.
“I had the biggest ‘aha’ along with many people in that audience,” she said. “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. It’s not about willpower — it’s about the brain,”…
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