Oprah Winfrey Talks About Her Weight In The January Issue Of O Magazine

 

In the January issue of  O magazine, Oprah Winfrey, 54, confesses that she now weighs 200 pounds and says she has “fallen off the wagon.”

“I’m mad at myself.  I’m embarrassed. I can’t believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I’m still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, ‘How did I let this happen again?’”

In the article (obtained by The Associated Press), Winfrey says she has struggled with an out-of-balance thyroid and the condition made her develop “a fear of working out” and adds that she’s packed on 40 pounds since she weighed 160 pounds in 2006.

“Yes, you’re adding correctly; that means the dreaded 2-0-0.  I was so frustrated I started eating whatever I wanted – and that’s never good.”

She says she hit rock bottom earlier this year when she wanted to skip an April 26 taping with Cher and Tina Turner in Las Vegas because she felt like “a fat cow”:

“I wanted to disappear.”

She goes on to say that her goal now isn’t to be thin; she just wants to be healthy and to help with that she is launching the “Best Life Week,” beginning Jan. 5 on her talk show.

“I definitely wasn’t setting an example.  I was talking the talk, but I wasn’t walking the walk. And that was very disappointing to me.”

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