by Jeroslyn JoVonn
March 8, 2024
Oprah Winfrey is getting “private” about her use of weight reduction injectables in a brand new primetime particular coming to ABC.
Oprah Winfrey is getting “private” about her use of weight reduction injectables in a brand new prime-time particular coming to ABC.
The billionaire media mogul is sitting down with medical consultants and sufferers for ABC’s “An Oprah Particular: Disgrace, Blame, and the Weight Loss Revolution,” per The Hollywood Reporter. In what shall be Winfrey’s first prime-time particular in three years, the OWN founder will discover “the unconventional impression” of prescription weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy.
“It’s a very private subject for me and for the tons of of thousands and thousands of individuals impacted across the globe who’ve for years struggled with weight and weight problems,” Winfrey mentioned in a press release.
“This particular will convey collectively medical consultants, leaders within the house and other people within the day-to-day battle to speak about well being fairness and weight problems with the intention to in the end launch the disgrace, judgment and stigma surrounding weight.”
The announcement of the particular comes amid Winfrey’s resolution to step down from the WeightWatchers board of administrators following her admission of utilizing a weight reduction treatment.
“I noticed I’d been blaming myself all these years for being obese, and I’ve a predisposition that no quantity of willpower goes to regulate,” Winfrey informed Folks in December.
“The truth that there’s a medically accredited prescription for managing weight and staying more healthy, in my lifetime, appears like reduction, like redemption, like a present, and never one thing to cover behind and as soon as once more be ridiculed for. I’m completely performed with the shaming from different individuals and notably myself … I now use it as I really feel I would like it, as a instrument to handle not yo-yoing.”
Simply months earlier than, Winfrey confronted backlash after calling Ozempic “a simple method out” for shedding weight. Though she stepped down from WeightWatchers’ board, she nonetheless owns 3,700 shares of its inventory and can proceed working with the corporate as a weight reduction advocate.
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