Love her or hate you have to admit it has to be very hard to struggle with food and weight issues when you are such a public figure. You have people cheering for your success and people gloating at every failure. Kathy Griffin even says in her stand up routine that every time Oprah gains weight back, it gives her material for her act. Maybe this is because so many of us are secretly relieved that there is something, anything imperfect about such a powerful self made woman. Heck, she may be the most powerful woman on television today but, she's f-a-t! I mean really wouldn't it be harder to accept if she didn't have any obvious flaws. I actually think I like her more because her weight issues make her seem more human. I can relate to struggling with food and weight issues and I am ever so grateful that I haven't had to appear before millions at some of my highest weights! It also reinforces the fact that DIETS DON"T WORK! If one of the richest women in the world who has person chefs, personal trainers, fitness and health gurus, and can even hire someone to slap the naughty food out of her hand if she wants to can't stick to a diet, how does it look for the rest of us average folks?
An embarrassed Oprah Winfrey says she's "fallen off the wagon" of healthy living and has ballooned to 200 pounds. In January's "O" magazine, Winfrey, 54, details her recent struggles with an out-of-balance thyroid and how the condition made her develop "a fear of working out." She says she's gained 40 pounds since 2006, when she weighed 160.
"I look at my thinner self and think, `How did I let this happen again?'" the talk-show queen says in the article provided early to The Associated Press by Harpo Productions.
"I'm embarrassed," she says. "I'm mad at myself."
Winfrey's weight and height put her body mass index at 31.8, which is obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC says people who are obese are at higher risk for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.
Winfrey says she's abandoned trying to get thin. She just wants to be strong, healthy and fit. She hopes to get started with her upcoming "Best Life Week," starting Jan. 5 with an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" during which she is expected to talk candidly about her weight.
Winfrey famously wheeled a wagon loaded with fat onto the set of her talk show in 1988 to represent a 67-pound weight loss while wearing a pair of size 10 Calvin Klein jeans. She had lost the weight with a liquid protein diet.
"When it comes to maintaining my health I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me," the chairwoman of Harpo Inc. writes. "I didn't follow my own fundamental rule of taking care of self first."
In 2005, Winfrey said she starved herself for four months to lose weight. Ever since, her weight has yo-yoed. She weighed as much as 237 pounds and by late 1990 acknowledged she had regained most of the 67 pounds, saying "I'll never diet again."
In 1994, she finished the Marine Corps Marathon and by 1996 hired personal trainer Bob Greene, saying her roller-coaster weight saga was over.
But now, Winfrey finds herself tipping the scales again, telling AP Television last week that she has yet to choose a gown for President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural ball next month.
"I had a dress on the vision board, but I'm not sure that's gonna fit," Winfrey said. "So I have to work on something else."
Oprah reveals she weighs 200 pounds
American talk show ‘queen’ Oprah Winfrey apparently believes in being straightforward when it comes to talking about her weight, for she has revealed in an article that she currently weighs 200 pounds.
She also writes that she has “fallen off the wagon” when it comes to healthy living.
The article, released by Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, appears in the January issue of ‘O’ magazine.
"I'm mad at myself," ‘the New York Daily News’ quoted her as having written in the article..
"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?” she wrote.
The write-up details Winfrey’s recent struggles with an out-of-balance thyroid, and how the condition made her develop "a fear of working out".
It reveals that the 54-year-old talk show host has gained 40 pounds since she weighted 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," Winfrey writes.
The piece also suggests that Winfrey no longer wants to be thin, and that she instead wishes to be strong healthy and fit.
Winfrey seemed to sound almost apologetic in her article, as she wrote: "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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