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Oprah Winfrey is opening up about the ridicule and shame she experienced amid her long weight loss journey. During her new ABC special, “An Oprah Special: Shame, Guilt, and the Weight Loss Revolution” The talk show host recalled a particularly painful moment that took place live on her own show.
“In an effort to combat all the shame, I starved myself for almost five months and then pulled out that cart of fat that the Internet will never forget,” Winfrey said of the moment that occurred in 1988. “After losing 67 pounds in (a ) liquid diet, the next day, the next day, I started to get it back. Feeling the shame of fighting a losing battle against weight is a very familiar story.”
Winfrey also said she was “ridiculed on every late-night talk show for 25 years” and shared some of the nasty headlines written about her at the time: “Oprah: Fatter Than Ever” and “Oprah Warned She Was Dieting Or go dead”. “
“Which has been the biggest relief for me, and I hope that many of you who watch this episode of Shame and Blame, will be relieved of shame,” he said later in the special. “Because I, like I said at the beginning of this, took on the same thing and carried it on my own.”
She continued, “And now that I know I’m holding my breath underwater, I’ve been able to release that shame and it doesn’t matter what anyone says.”