2023-12-14 04:11:36
During the premiere of the movie Color Purple, former talk show host Oprah Winfrey sparked controversy because of her significant weight loss following a long struggle with excess weight.
Winfrey, who was honored on Wednesday by unveiling a painting of her in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, to be added to a group of prominent American figures, revealed the secret of her weight loss to this extent.
Winfrey revealed, in an interview published on Wednesday, that the secret of her thinness is due to her taking weight-loss medications, which constitutes a surprise given her long hostility to resorting to this method, according to the newspaper “Wall Street Journal“.
Winfrey did not reveal the medication she is taking, but her confession sheds light on the controversy surrounding weight loss medications and whether they are harmful or beneficial, according to the newspaper.
In an interview with People magazine, Winfrey said that a combination of diet, exercise, and medication helped her lose weight in recent years, which fans noticed and sparked speculation that Winfrey was taking a secret medication that helped her lose weight.
She said in the interview: “Obesity is a disease. It is not regarding willpower, it is regarding the mind.”
Winfrey’s admission on Wednesday contradicts years of marketing that losing weight is not a matter of biology, but of willpower.
She said in the interview: “I had an awareness of weight-loss drugs, but I felt I had to prove that I had the willpower to do it, but I don’t think that way anymore.”
The Wall Street Journal believes that Winfrey has a financial interest in this philosophical shift, given that since 2015, she has been a member of the board of directors of Weight Watchers, which specializes in weight management and focused earlier this year on including prescription medications in addition to… The popular “Calculate Your Points” eating plan.
The newspaper quoted the company’s CEO, Sima Sistani, as saying that customers should no longer blame themselves for failing to maintain weight.
But the newspaper explained that consumers who hope to follow in Winfrey’s footsteps may find it difficult to do so, with the high demand for anti-obesity drugs, and thus their price has risen significantly, in addition to the fact that they are not fully covered by insurance companies.
The newspaper considered that there may be no American figure more associated with weight loss than Winfrey. In 1988, she demonstrated a 67-pound weight loss by hosting her talk show wearing size 10 jeans. Her endorsement, later rescinded, of the Optifast program that helped her lose weight led to increased interest in the liquid diet.
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