Oprah Winfrey is a Heavy Hitter
Posted by Bossip Staff
Oprah Winfrey carries big weight, both in business and on the scale:
Having already expressed how angry and embarrassed she feels after tipping the scales at 200 pounds, Oprah Winfrey is now doing something about it.
With her TV show launching Best Life Week on Monday, the media mogul, 54, says, according to a transcript posted on her official Web site, that when it came to her 40-lb. weight gain, “It’s not about the food.
“It’s about using food – abusing food. Too much work. Not enough play. Not enough time to come down. Not enough time to really relax.”
She adds: “I am hungry for balance. I’m hungry to do something other than work.”
Practically speaking, that means Winfrey – who has been diagnosed with hypothyroidism (a hormonal imbalance) – is devoting more time from her 14-hour workday schedule to her own well-being, including exercise. It also means she is finished making excuses for herself.
Winfrey says that last year she was forced to mask her figure every month for her cover shot on her O magazine.
“I’ve been hiding my body because I didn’t want you to see it,” she says. “Here I am, one of the most visible people in the world, trying not to be seen on the cover of my own magazine.”
This year, she’s stopped making excuses – and stopped hiding. For O’s January issue, Winfrey poses next to a picture of her former svelte self, from 2005 – when she weighed 160 pounds.
“This is the year of hopefulness,” she says, revealing her new attitude. “My goal is to be the weight that my body can hold and be healthy and strong and fit and be itself.
“One of the things I had to learn to do is to embrace this body that I have and be grateful for what this body has given me,” she says. “God blessed me and this body. I mean, I could weep right now thinking about the love and appreciation I have for this body. For that, I am truly grateful.”
Did anyone say “40 f*cking pounds” out loud like us? Sheesh. We can assure both big Oprah, and the little Harpo that dwells within her, that when you gain 40 pounds, it’s most definitely about the food. SMH
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Second!!!!!!! Almost first
First ! Go Oprah being all hopeful in 2009
ok…third
Doesn’t she have a personal CHEF and a GYM in her house??? What’s her excuse again?
PS: She never weighed 160lbs…that weave alone weighs AT LEAST 30 lbs!
WHO CARES ABOUT THIS OBESE BITCH
Hannibal that gravieis dead wrong! LOL
LMAO
Oprah, blah blah pyschobabble blah.
Get a gastric band or an elastic one for your mouth.
She’s made a fortune spouting this nonsense. Somebody stuff another Twinkie in her mouth and stop her chatting her “I am blessed”, “Time to heal” rubbish.
Sistah big bonnnnne!!! *singing
Oprah has reached heights is media and in business that no other black female (really female) has reached. With that said, Oprah lost me years ago. It’s easy to get on t.v. and spout a bunch of acceptable ish to people so that you rise, but when you lose yourself you get depresdsed. She lost herself. She don’t believe the things she says. She should be well and balanced with all the help she has. She is depressed about living a lie and shse’s over eating. What that lie is (whether it is her hypocrsy w/ weight, her issues with her own people, or her relationship/sexually), I don’t know. I don’t wish bad on her though. Hopes she gets it right.
I support O in everything she does. Being overweight is a struggle and a life long process that she has to deal with. Everyone has things that they are trying to deal with. With O its her weight. I wish her much luck and success with this weight loss and maybe this time she can keep it off.
Oprah does not have a weave. Hater.
Okay, she has hypothyroidism. Just because she has a chef and trainer doesn’t erase that.
hmpf>>>Hello and amen to your comment! Everyone wants to get all high and mighty, but Oprah is a mogul and has come up from poor Mississippi girl to one of the riches and most successful woman of any race. To that end, I’m proud of this sister and wish her well in every endeavor, including her struggle with weight loss.
Success is what everyone strives for yet when you reach it, there’s always enemies trying to pull you down literally and figuratively, especially when you are black. SMH.
I wanted to reach into the tv yesterday and slap her from ear to ear. Yeah right, she gained weight by only eating whole bags of “blue” tortilla chips. She is funky rich and can pay people to portion her food for her and even prop her up on the treadmill. Oprah is just GREEDY!! For money$$ AND food!! The S. African school was a good thing for her to do.. But TWO magazines, another whole tv channel, an XM radio channel, lollygagging around with sugarfoot Tyler Perry, maintaining THREE homes (Chi-town, Cali, Hawaii), PLUS her daily show.. was all that necessary?? Ho, sit yo fat ass down on a BIKE and get to MOVING!!
Top 20 you FAT PORKAZ!!!
GOooOOO TOOOOooooo thEEE GYYYMMMMM ! ! ! ! !!!!!!
I’m tired of Oprah and her Bullshit. She has a chef and trainers. Instead of ordering a low cal meal she is ordering pancakes and sausages for her breakfast. At inner instead of asking her chef to make her grilled chicken or something low calorie she is probably dining on mac and cheese ribs and collard greens with a side of cornbread and butter.
You have to be disciplined no one can do it for you. Her chef is paid and told what to cook by her. She does not get my sympathy any longer. She has struggled with her weight for years and knows how to keep it off through exercise and diet. She stopped exercising as well. She knows the pounds would pile on with no exercise and eating whatever she wanted like she said. Why wait until you gain 40 pounds to do something about it. after 5 pounds she should of been back in the gym. She just kept eating adidn’t give a damn.
I am not rich But I manage to maintain my weight at 123 pounds by watching my calorie intake and exercise. It is hard but I’m not foolish enough dine on whatever my taste buds crave and abandon my workout. I know what the results will bring. Rolls and excess fat that I don’t need.
I sorry but Oprah know dam well that her weight is more than 200 pounds, DAM WHY LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!SHE IS A BIG GIRL NOTHING TO LIE OR BE SHAME ABOUT
@ hannibal, who cares about your scrawny ass? admit you’re jealous of obama cause you love michelle,loser.and stop disrespecting him with that gravie. what are you 12?
OPRAH IS MORE THAN 200 #’s NOW. SHE STILL AINT KEEPIN IT REAL. BUT I STILL ADMIRE HER FOR WHAT SHE HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
Oprah is who she is. SOme people do not look good being skinny. Oprah is a very beautiful woman ( inside and out). She is self made and she really “delivers” vote. Stop hating on Oprah and get your own. What soul did she give up when she opened up al all-girls school in Africa. When she donated to Katrina. When she gave to Clark Academy in Atlanta. SHe reaches ot to her people, but she isn’t your welfare mama.
Oprah shouldn’t stress her weight situation, as long as she’s healthy…who cares how big she is. She is still a beautiful and successful woman. She is my role model and a true Soldieress. http://www.SoldieressChronicles.com
Let’s be honest, a 200 pound woman is huge
…yet it doesn’t compare to the snaggle tooth silver back gorillas who write for this site. You fat ugly bytchez need some serious help!
Oprah has done more good things for more people that the people on this site combined. Those of you spewing your venomous words take a look inside and evaluate what makes you so hateful and angry. Is it because you can’t afford a cook or personal trainer? Is it because you don’t have anything to offer anybody in the way of help, not even kind words. So much negativity…hey maybe that is what you struggle with since apparently your weight stays absolutely perfect.
I love the way she’s dressed…