Talk show icon, Oprah Winfrey, looks almost unrecognisable in her latest social media snap in which she shows off the results of her three stone weight loss
Oprah Winfrey looks incredible in her latest social media post in which she shows off her new figure after admitting to using medication to help her lose weight.
The talk show icon, 71, said she used the GLP-1 agonist drug – whose brand names include Ozempic and which are designed to treat diabetes, but which are now being used for weight loss – in 2023.
Saying she initially thought the drug, which is used by a whole host of famous faces, would be an “easy way out”, Oprah then claimed it was a “relief” to find a “medically approved prescription for losing weight and staying healthier.”
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Taking to Instagram this week, there’s no denying she looks good as she beams from ear to ear, standing in her enormous garden, sporting an elegant cerise silk blouse and black leather trousers, with her hair and makeup done to perfection.
However, holding a copy of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir, All the Way to the River, which she promotes in the caption, the actress disabled the comments, meaning no-one could respond to her glamorous snap.
Oprah was heavily criticised after previously slamming those using GLP-1 drugs, type-2 diabetes medication that also helps weight loss.
She once referred to the doctor-prescribed medication as an “easy way out” and denied using the drug to lose weight following years of yo-yo dieting.
However, in December 2023, the Colour Purple star who had been surrounded by rumours she was using drugs such as Ozempic for years, finally admitted the truth, after revealing she was ‘done with the shaming’.
She told People: “I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing.”
Oprah added: “The fact that there’s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for.
“I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself,” she continued before adding she had recommended the drug to other people before deciding to take it herself.
The self-made billionaire said on an episode of The Oprah Podcast that she took a ‘GLP-1,’ formally known as a GLP-1 agonist, which works by mimicking the hormone GLP-1, which the body releases after eating, helping people feel full and slowing stomach emptying.
Oprah first confirmed that she was taking the drug two years ago, but did not confirm which medication she was taking. Many have speculated it’s Ozempic, a brand name GLP-1 agonist that’s been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat Type 2 diabetes – and of which weight loss is a famous side effect.
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