Oprah Winfrey Opens Up About Weight Shaming | The View

last night on last night's Oprah Winfrey special shame blame and the weight loss Revolution she shared her mission to help change the conversation about obesity and how she struggled with her weight in the spotlight take a look for 25 years making fun of my weight was national sport Oprah fatter than ever Oprah hits 246 PBS final showdown with stemman sends her into Feeding Frenzy oah worn diet or die so in an effort to combat all the shame I starved myself for nearly five months and then wield

out that wagon of fat that the internet will never let me forget and after losing 67 pounds on a liquid diet the next day y'all the very next day I started to gain it back when I tell you how many times I have blamed myself because you think I'm smart enough to figure this out and then to hear all along it's you fighting your brain yeah so do you agree that more people are finding hope and taking the weight more seriously as a health issue is this a new issue or is this something that uh women i

n particular but men as well have been facing forever cuz you know I I will say I will tell you you know I I weighed almost 300 lb when I made till yeah and yeah and I was had taken all those steroids I was on all this stuff and one of the things that's helped me drop the weight is the is the not majalo mararo that's what I use what does Oprah use I I don't know she I don't know that she uses used anything she was doing now though she didn't say what she uses but she did indicate that she has us

ed these weight loss medications and what what I got to uh from it I have a similar story you know during Co I gave 40 PBS I was horrified 40 all I did was eat Calamar and right you know I mean I I love to cook and I found out I love to eat and I was horrified by the fact that I would have to come out on air I was and so I also took mararo and I got all these nasty emails and things and you're too you're too skinny and you why did you do this and you're taking the drug away from diabetics and an

d things like that and so there is shame when you've gained weight and I had I had never experienced that kind of Shame before and what I love about what she said is obesity is a disease right it's a disease and and so when people are saying things to those that's wait a minute how was it a disease if you just were eating everything I didn't have the disease I didn't have Americans who are clinically OB Americans that are clinically OB I wasn't obes no I was but she 300 lb yeah you know I was ju

st 40 lb heavier and um what what I will say is if someone has diabetes and they're being treated for diabetes it's fine when someone has cardi you know some sort of cardiac disease that's fine they're not shamed for it but when someone is obese they are shamed for it I found that my cholesterol went up to 200 when I gained the extra weight and I used banjaro and my cholesterol is 140 now I feel better I think I look better and that's what this is about for people right well and sunny it's said

she spoke a lot you can back um she talked a lot about shame and the part that bothered me is we know there's so much shame with weight gain it's like one of the last remaining taboos people will complain about who sits next to them on a plane as if their journey in their own days isn't hard enough and you've got one little flight with you you know like so I see it but there's also been a shame on the other side which I think she's is also alluding to with people taking these drugs there was a s

hame a guilt that she could control it on her own and yet she couldn't and I think I look at even her yo-yoing they say yo-yoing is worse for your health and that was her whole story was always this weight and it def it's so many of us but the problem is it is an epidemic 40% of our country is obese 40% of our country that obesity then leads to all the other Healthcare problems we watched as Biden passed this bipartisan bill on reducing the cost of insulin well we wouldn't need that insulin redu

ction if not so many people were on insulin which means if they were not as overweight or OB attacks and heart dis you look at it all and I think the point here is that we the body focus needs to stop you're damned if you're obese and you're damned if you lose weight and you don't look like every maybe the key is to stop judging everybody that's maybe that's the maybe that's the key because listen when I realized how much I had put on I cuz I never I F I just always felt like me yeah and then I

saw me and I thought oh that's a lot of me yeah and you know I my weight is gone and come and gone and up and down but it's not it's never been an issue for me I because I don't listen to what other people say about me so it has never been a problem but I think it's very hard for people to just know a normal weight would be because we don't we we went from this you know to to this and everyone had something to say but no one said oh well how you doing how you doing cuz it's it's it involves so m

any other things and I think that it is a matter of how we treat ourselves well can I give a historical perspective you so because not about the health because health is separate from what I'm going to say about St MH because if you read history during the Renaissance period yes an obese woman was a model all right they like them Big And Chunky in those days because well they were consider you had money if you had food the rich people in those days could eat the poor were skinny because they wer

e suffering from famine now rich people are skinny poor people are heavy and that's what and so every it's true I mean because of the processed foods that people have to they don't have the money they have to go to McDonald's whatever not that there's anything wrong with McDonald's right but if you do it as a steady diet it does not help you so the style has to do with econ the economy the rich are fat the poor are skinny and the opposite and so we are in a period where the rich are deciding wha

t we should look like yeah so don't pay that much attention to the style of it is what I'm saying because it really doesn't have to do with you it has to the one thing the single biggest well I I know about this because I used to date Leonardo Den right go ahead the single biggest factor in determining weight and if you'll struggle with in your life is genetics so what she said that was so important is eliminate the shame from it I will struggle less with weight because of my genetics although t

hat could change later in life it's someone else who may struggle their whole life well it will I'm I'm oh no for what's worth I struggle with my Weight and Body Image I think every woman does I think being on TV challenges that have you ever been heavy no but I think that we all have was until I turned 50 but I do want to say this on these drugs these could end up being miracle workers for the health of the society so think about it we do have a obesity epidemic Caris swisser on her podcast tal

ked to uh Professor Scott Galloway about this and they were saying within 10 years it could end the Obesity epidemic it could also drive out a business these fast food uh restaurants that listen it's not bad to go to from time to time but it is killing Americans to go to them but they also may have benefits for addiction so for drinking and impulses so I'm curious to see but they have to get the affordability so wait a minute if everybody does these drugs and everybody's skinny then we can all b

e fat again it it won't be Chic to be skinny anymore right that's right well you know it's again it you have to like you have to take responsibility for yourself and see what's going on with your body you have to and there's nothing wrong stuff happens you know you hit a certain age and everything falls to the ground does you know you just Pig it up put it over the back of your and keep it moving