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Oprah Winfrey has always been known for being vocal on several serious issues. The talk show host has now touched on the topic of using weight loss pills. The 69-year-old celebrity addressed how she often came under hate for her weight but never agreed to use medical pills for weight loss. According to her, using medication for weight loss is easy but certainly the wrong way to deal with the issue.
Problems related to obesity and weight loss have always been prevalent in our society. We often get to see daily how some people are mercilessly subjected to discussions. It is often spotted that the people are forced to not love themselves as they are and that’s the thing Oprah Winfrey spoke against in her latest show.
What did Oprah Winfrey say about weight loss pills?
As Oprah Winfrey hosted the panel The Life You Want Class: The State of Weight, she sat with other fellow obesity experts and psychologists to talk about issues related to weight and society’s perspective towards it. The ‘Queen of All Media’ confessed that she also thought about taking Ozempic, a medication for people with type-2 diabetes.
The weight loss drug is currently a common practice among many celebrities who always want to stay in the public eye. But Oprah Winfrey didn’t want to take the “easy way out” and felt that it should be a personal choice to accept which body one chooses to be in.
“Shouldn’t we all just be more accepting of whatever body you choose to be in? That should be your choice. Even when I first started hearing about the weight loss drugs, at the same time I was going through knee surgery, and I felt, ‘I’ve got to do this on my own.’ Because if I take the drug, that’s the easy way out.'”
The Color Purple actress stated how numerous tabloids have often “shamed” her for lacking “willpower” when it comes to weight loss. Responding to it, another fellow panelist and obesity expert Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford stated that it is sad to see how Winfrey has been repeatedly subjected to criticism for a disease that has got to do nothing with willpower.
“It’s hard to see you ostracized in the way that you’ve been. Because this isn’t about willpower. It’s not your fault. It’s how our bodies regulate weight and each of us is different, each of us is unique, not one is superior to another. We’re just different and acting on those differences and treating the differences in the heterogeneity of the population is how we’re going to actually make change in this disease.”
Oprah Winfrey is on a journey of betterment following her double knee surgery. She has been involved in active sports like hiking and her respect for her organs and limbs has increased as well.
Why did Cindy Crawford criticize Oprah Winfrey?
Cindy Crawford has been one of the most popular supermodels of her time. She first met the talk show host on Oprah. In the recently released The Super Models docuseries on Apple TV+, Crawford publicly spoke about Oprah Winfrey’s problematic comment. We are shown a clip where Winfrey can be heard saying “Did she always have this body? Stand up just a moment, now this is what I call a bod.”
Richard Gere’s former wife was strongly against this behavior and didn’t expect it to come from somebody like Oprah Winfrey. The Fair Game actress admitted that Winfrey made her feel like a “chattel”.
“When you look at it through today’s eyes, when Oprah’s like, ‘Stand up and show me your body,’ like show us why you’re worthy of being here. In the moment I didn’t recognize it. Only when I look back at it and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was so not OK really.’ Especially from Oprah!”
It will be interesting to see if Oprah Winfrey addresses this matter anytime soon. The Super Models is currently streaming on Apple TV+ and talks about various unheard tales and secrets from the modeling industry of the 80s.
Source: Oprah Daily / The Super Models
