Oprah Winfrey looked slimmer than ever as she stepped out in New York on Tuesday, months after admitting to using weight-loss drugs.
The 70-year-old broadcasting icon showed off her tiny waist, slender arms and toned curves in a purple sweater and belted tan dress pants as she arrived on Good Morning America.
The glamorous star added height in tan heels and wore her hair in soft waves.
Oprah completed the chic ensemble with a pair of chic sunglasses as she enthusiastically waved her latest book club pick, Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, and waved to her fans.
Despite her initial denial about using weight loss drugs, Oprah eventually revealed that she had lost 40 pounds with the help of weight loss aids in December 2023, saying she was “sick of the shame.”
Oprah Winfrey looked slimmer than ever as she stepped out in New York on Tuesday, months after admitting to taking weight-loss drugs.
In December, Winfrey finally admitted that she used weight-loss drugs for her dramatic body transformation, after previously denying that she would ever take Ozempic or similar weight-loss drugs (seen left in December 2023 and right in 2019).
She lost weight using medications and exercise, including hiking.
The admission comes after Winfrey said she would not take Ozempic and similar drugs in the weight-loss drug class because she viewed them as an “easy way out” during a discussion with WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani.
She said People“Now I use it when I feel I need it, as a tool to control my symptoms, without falling into the yo-yo effect,” but he did not mention the name of the medication he uses.
‘The fact that there is a medically approved prescription for weight management and staying healthier, in my life, feels like a relief, like a redemption, like a gift and not something to hide behind and be ridiculed once again.
“I’m completely fed up with other people shaming me, and particularly myself,” she added that she had actively recommended the weight loss aid to others before deciding to take it herself.
The star revealed that she took the medication before Thanksgiving because she knew she would have “two full weeks of eating” and credits the drug for making her gain just half a pound instead of eight pounds, adding that it “calms the noise of eating.”
Winfrey said she is now seven pounds away from her goal weight of 160 pounds, but said “it’s not about the number.”
Oprah previously revealed that at her heaviest she weighed 237 pounds (107.5 kg).
The glamorous star added height in tan heels and wore her hair in soft waves.
Oprah completed the chic ensemble with a pair of chic sunglasses as she enthusiastically waved her latest book club pick, Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, and waved to fans.
Oprah showed off her tiny waist while out for a stroll.
The star looked amazing as she stepped out and greeted fans.
He said undergoing knee surgery in 2021 marked the start of a journey to improve his health and live a “more vital and vibrant life.”
The streaming icon said she now eats her last meal at 4 p.m., drinks a gallon of water a day and uses WeightWatchers principles to count points, along with regular walks.
She added that her fitness and health routine is key to maintaining her weight loss, saying: “That’s it. I know everyone thought I was doing it, but I worked really hard. I know if I don’t work out and pay attention to everything else, it doesn’t work for me.”
She said: “I knew that there were drugs (to lose weight) but I felt I had to prove that I had the willpower to do it. I don’t feel that way anymore.”
Winfrey said the recorded conversation in July with weight loss experts and doctors encouraged her to use weight loss drugs, leading to her “revealing moment.” The conversation was posted online in September and Winfrey flatly denied she would ever take weight loss drugs.
She said: ‘I realized that I had been blaming myself all these years for being overweight and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower can control. Obesity is a disease. It is not a question of willpower, it is a question of the brain.
She told People, “I use it now whenever I feel I need it, as a tool to control my weight, with no side effects,” but did not mention the name of the medication she uses (pictured left on Dec. 6 and right in 2009).
The star hosted a panel in front of a live audience in New York City as part of Oprah Daily’s The Life You Want series, where she denied she would ever take weight-loss drugs.
During the debate, experts stressed that obesity is a metabolic disease in which some bodies “are more predisposed to storing more fat,” also known as adipose tissue.
Oprah candidly explained, “For those of us who store fat, no matter how many times… You’ve all seen me diet and diet and diet and diet, it’s a recurring thing because my body always seems to want to get back to a certain weight.”
She added: “If I ate an apple pie at 11pm, I’d be two pounds heavier in the morning. I can’t eat after a certain time.”
The TV personality, who claimed she had “been yo-yoing her whole life,” later said: ‘This is a world that has always shamed people for being overweight and all of us who have lived through it know that people just treat you differently. They just do.
“And I’m Oprah Winfrey and I know what that entails and I get treated differently if I’m over 200 pounds than if I’m under 200 pounds…
“There’s a kind of condescension. There’s a stigma.”
Oprah said the key was to have friends and partners around you who offered support and “rejoiced in your victory.”
Following further discussion of the weight loss drugs currently available (including Ozempic and Wegovy), the media mogul said: “Shouldn’t we all be more accepting of the body we choose to have? That should be our choice.”
‘One of the things I felt so ashamed about, even when I first started hearing about weight loss drugs, at the same time I was having knee surgery, I felt, “I have to do this on my own because if I take the drug, it’s going to be the easy way out.”
“There’s a part of me that feels – as I think a lot of people feel with bariatric surgery – that I have to do it the hard way, I have to keep climbing mountains, I have to keep suffering and I have to do it because otherwise, in some ways I’m fooling myself.”
Throughout her decades-long struggle to lose weight, Oprah has never shied away from discussing her struggles in public. Pictured in 1988 (left) and 1992 (right)
She concluded: “As a person who has been shamed for so many years (for my weight), I’m just sick of it.”
The star said that after this talk, she released her “own shame” and consulted her doctor, who prescribed her the weight-loss medication.
When asked what he had done to achieve results last week, he said: Entertainment Tonight“It’s not just one thing, it’s everything. I intend to keep it that way.”
Earlier this year, she released the television documentary An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution, in which she attacked those who shame people who turn to weight loss drugs.
