Oprah Winfrey says she changed ‘everything’ to achieve her health and fitness goals.
The 69-year-old media mogul – who wowed at the Los Angeles premiere of The Color Purple – has lost more than 40 pounds in recent months and when asked what the key to her slimming down was, she revealed she has made a change in all aspects of her life and has no plans of going back.
When asked what she did to achieve results, she said Entertainment tonight on Wednesday’s premiere: ‘It’s not one thing, it’s everything. I want to keep it that way.’
Meanwhile, the former talk show host paid tribute to late TV producer Norman Lear – who was known as the creator of shows such as One Day At A Time and The Jeffersons – following his death on Tuesday at the age of 101.
She said: ‘He was one of the great gentlemen of our time. I had so much respect for him, I interviewed him several times.”
Oprah Winfrey says she changed ‘everything’ to achieve her health and fitness goals
The 69-year-old media mogul has lost more than 20 kilos in recent months and when asked what the key to her slimming down has been, she revealed that she has had to make a change in all aspects of her life and that she has no plans. of going back
“I mean, at the very beginning, in the 1970s, his shows started the conversation about race and justice – All in the Family, The Jeffersons – in a way that America wasn’t willing to (discuss) before. .’
Oprah further stated that Norman’s “impact” will be felt for generations to come, as she emphasized that even those unfamiliar with his work are already “experiencing the benefits” of what he did for television viewers in the US.
“His impact and legacy will be felt for generations to come. Even people who don’t know his shows experience the benefits of what those shows have done for us as a culture.”
It comes after Winfrey previously insisted she has not turned to weight loss drugs to shed pounds.
She opened up about body image when she spoke on a panel in New York City for Oprah Daily’s series The Life You Want in September.
Oprah was joined by several weight loss experts, including Weight Watchers CEO Sima Sistani, psychologist Rachel Goldman and obesity specialists Fatima Cody Stanford and Melanie Jay.
“I don’t know if there’s another public figure whose weight struggle has been exploited as much as mine,” Oprah said during the conversation.
“One of the things I was so ashamed of, and even when I first heard about the weight-loss drugs, I was having knee surgery at the same time and I was like, ‘I have to do this on my own. because if I take the medicine, it’s the easy way out,” she said.
Oprah spoke on stage at Variety’s Power of Women event in LA in September
“I don’t know of another public figure whose weight struggle has been exploited as much as mine,” Oprah said recently; pictured in 2009
She continued: ‘There’s a part of me that feels – as I think a lot of people feel about bariatric surgery – that I have to do it the hard way, that I have to keep climbing the mountains, I have to keep suffering and that I must do, otherwise I have deceived myself somehow.’
Oprah added that she was “just tired” of the idea “as a person who has been shamed for so many years” regarding her fluctuating weight.
“This is a world that has shamed people into being forever overweight, and all of us who have lived in it know that people just treat you differently – they just do,” she said.
