Oprah Winfrey reveals Ozempic made her realize the truth about 'thin people'

Oprah Winfrey said taking weight-loss drugs, similar Ozempic and Wegovy, helped her recognize the information astir 'thin people.'

In 2023, the media mogul, 70, yet admitted to utilizing an undisclosed GLP-1 — a type 2 diabetes medicine that tin besides assistance successful weight loss — to shed astir 50 pounds after decades of yo-yo dieting.

The admittance came arsenic a daze to fans arsenic Oprah had antecedently denied utilizing meds to slim down and adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic to slam the method arsenic an 'easy mode out.'

But now, having astir reached her extremity value of 160 pounds, Winfrey is sharing her acquisition taking a GLP-1 and what it has taught her astir 'thin people.'

She did truthful portion discussing the relation and information of these types of drugs with Dr. Ania Jastreboff connected the latest occurrence of her podcast.

'One of the things that I realized the precise archetypal clip I took a GLP-1 was that each these years I thought that bladed radical had much willpower,' Winfrey confessed. 'They ate amended foods. They were capable to instrumentality to it longer. They ne'er had a murphy chip.'

But erstwhile she started connected a GLP-1, Winfrey realized that what she initially perceived arsenic 'willpower' was really an lack of intrusive hunger thoughts — often referred to arsenic 'food noise.'

Ozempic, Wegovy and different GLP-1 medications tin assistance eradicate nutrient sound — which often leads to overeating and value summation — by reducing cravings and slowing down digestion.

'And past I realized the precise archetypal clip I took the GLP-1 that, they're not adjacent reasoning astir it,' the billionaire said.

'They're eating erstwhile they're bare and they're stopping erstwhile they're full.'

Winfrey explained that that mode of eating 'doesn't work' if you conflict with obesity, which is simply a disease. 

During her sit-down with Dr. Jastreboff, Winfrey besides spoke astir being 'publicly humiliated' for her value implicit the people of her decades-long career.

'Every week [I was] exploited by the tabloids, anytime immoderate comedian wanted to marque amusive oregon marque a gag astir it, they would marque a gag astir it. And I accepted it due to the fact that I thought I deserved it,' she explained.

But now, Winfrey said she realizes that her size did not marque her 'less than' others and that she did not merit that treatment.

Despite her archetypal denial astir utilizing weight-loss drugs, Oprah declared she was 'done with the shaming' successful December 2023 erstwhile she revealed that she utilized a GLP-1 to driblet 40lbs.

She besides incorporated regular exercise, specified arsenic hiking, to assistance her shed unwanted pounds.

Winfrey told PEOPLE: 'I present usage it arsenic I consciousness I request it, arsenic a instrumentality to negociate not yo-yoing' - but did not sanction the cause that she uses.

'The information that there's a medically approved medicine for managing value and staying healthier, successful my lifetime, feels similar relief, similar redemption, similar a gift, and not thing to fell down and erstwhile again beryllium ridiculed for.

'I'm perfectly done with the shaming from different radical and peculiarly myself' and added she had actively recommended the value nonaccomplishment assistance to different radical earlier deciding to instrumentality it herself.

The prima revealed she had taken the medicine earlier Thanksgiving arsenic she knew she would person 'two coagulated weeks of eating' and credits the cause for causing her to lone summation fractional a lb alternatively than 8 pounds, adding it 'quiets the nutrient noise.'

At the time, Winfrey said she was 7 pounds distant from her extremity value of 160 but insisted 'it's not astir the number.' Oprah weighed 237lbs (107.5kg) astatine her heaviest, she antecedently revealed.

She said undergoing genu country successful 2021 kickstarted a travel for her to amended her wellness and unrecorded a 'more captious and vibrant life.'

The broadcast icon said she present eats her past repast astatine 4pm, drinks a gallon of h2o a time and uses WeightWatchers principles of counting points, on with regular hikes.

She added that her fittingness and wellness regular are integral to maintaining her value nonaccomplishment saying: 'It's everything. I cognize everybody thought I was connected it, but I worked truthful damn hard. I cognize that if I'm not besides moving retired and vigilant astir each the different things, it doesn't enactment for me.'

She said: 'I had an consciousness of [weight-loss] medications, but felt I had to beryllium I had the willpower to bash it. I present nary longer consciousness that way.'

Winfrey said she was encouraged to usage aesculapian value nonaccomplishment drugs aft the taped sheet speech successful July 2023 with value nonaccomplishment experts and clinicians - which led to her 'biggest aha moment.'

The speech was released online that September and saw Winfrey staunchly denying she would ever instrumentality value nonaccomplishment drugs.

She said: 'I realized I'd been blaming myself each these years for being overweight, and I person a predisposition that nary magnitude of willpower is going to control. Obesity is simply a disease. It's not astir willpower — it's astir the brain.

During the discussion, the experts insisted that obesity is simply a metabolic illness with immoderate bodies 'more predisposed to storing much fat' - besides known arsenic adipose tissue.

Oprah candidly explained: 'For those of america that are adipose storers, nary substance however galore times... You've each watched maine fare and fare and fare and diet, it's a recurring happening due to the fact that my assemblage ever seems to privation to spell backmost to a definite weight.'

She added: 'If I ate an pome pastry astatine 11 o'clock astatine night, I would beryllium 2 pounds heavier successful the morning. I can't devour aft a definite time.'

The TV personality, who claimed she had 'yoyoed her full life,' aboriginal said: 'This is simply a satellite that has shamed radical for being overweight everlastingly and each of america who person lived it cognize that radical conscionable dainty you differently. They conscionable do.

'And I americium Oprah Winfrey and I cognize each that comes with that and I get treated otherwise if I americium 200 positive pounds versus nether 200 pounds...

'There is simply a condescension. There is simply a stigma.'

Oprah said that the cardinal was to person friends and partners astir you that offered enactment and 'rejoiced successful your victory.'

Following a much successful extent treatment of the weight-loss drugs presently disposable - including Ozempic and Wegovy - the media mogul said: 'Shouldn't we each conscionable beryllium much accepting of immoderate assemblage you take to beryllium in? That should beryllium your choice.

'One of the things I carried truthful overmuch shame for, and adjacent erstwhile I archetypal started proceeding astir the weight-loss drugs, astatine the aforesaid clip I was going done genu country and I felt, 'I've got to bash this connected my ain due to the fact that if I instrumentality the drug, that's the casual mode out.'

'There's a portion of maine that feels - similar I deliberation a batch of radical consciousness with bariatric country - that I've got to bash it the hard way, I've got to support climbing the mountains, I've got to support suffering and I've got to bash that due to the fact that different I someway cheated myself.'

She concluded: 'As a idiosyncratic who has been shamed for truthful galore years [about my weight], I americium conscionable sick of it.'

The prima said aft this chat, she released her 'own shame' and consulted her doctor, who prescribed the value nonaccomplishment medication.

Last year, she released the TV documentary An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution, which featured her hitting retired astatine those who shame radical who crook to weight-loss drugs.