Oprah Winfrey admitted to playing a role in perpetuating diet culture during her career and said that a dieting article from a 1980s show was one of her “biggest regrets.”
The 70-year-old star, who has been ranked among the most influential women in the world, has been open about her struggles with maintaining a healthy weight and her attempts to lose weight.
In March he said that “making fun of my weight was a national sport” for more than two decades.
In comments reported by Sky’s US partner NBC, the talk show host told a live audience: “I want to acknowledge that I have been a strong participant in this diet culture through my platforms, through the magazine, through the 25 year old talk show.
“I’ve been a major contributor to it. I can’t tell you how many weight loss shows and makeovers I’ve done and they’ve been a staple for as long as I’ve been working in television.”
But he admitted that an article on a 1988 edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show was one of his “biggest regrets” when rolled a cart full of grease onto the stage to represent the weight he had recently lost thanks to a liquid diet and exercise.
He had starved himself for months, he said, admitting that it “sent the message that starving yourself on a liquid diet and set a standard for people watching that I, nor anyone else, could maintain. The next day, I began to gain weight.” the weight back.
“I own what I’ve done and now I want to do it better.”
Winfrey spoke Thursday at an event hosted by WeightWatchers, whose board of directors she joined in 2015, before saying in February that she would be leaving.
In 2016, she took advantage of an interview in O magazine to reveal that she had lost 12 kg, sharing the cover with nine other women to celebrate her “best body.”
In the issue, Winfrey said: “It was my idea to share the cover with other women who are on the same journey as me. My own struggles with the scale are well known. I have never believed in hiding them.”
Oprah Winfrey in 2018. File photo: AP
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In December, she told People that she had started taking a weight-loss medication and said she uses it “when I feel like I need it, as a yo-yo control tool.”
“The fact that there is a medically approved prescription to control my weight and stay healthier throughout my life seems like a relief, a redemption, a gift, and not something to hide from and be ridiculed for once again.”
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