Oprah Winfrey sheds light on an issue she once thought was a personal failure.
But instead it turned out to be a medical condition.
It’s her weight, or more accurately, her obesity. Speak with CBS Sunday morningthe well-known celebrity shares how she gained clarity on the issue that affected her overall self-confidence.
“I’m not going to do that, but I could cry right now because of the many days and nights I spent writing in a diary about how this is my fault and why can’t I overcome this thing?” she said, nodding to her reputation in the industry for achieving greater feats.
Everything changed, Winfrey recalls, when she started taking GLP-1 medication, a weight-loss drug.
“There are tools that can help you. And I really see it as a tool,” she recalled, adding that the drug’s results were fast.
For example, the “food sound” she had in her head disappeared after she took the GLP-1 the first day. “I’ve become indifferent to food. I still love it. I still love it. But I’m not obsessed with it in any way.”
Despite what she said about the drug’s stunning results, Winfrey still regretted not knowing about it sooner.
“I regret not discovering it in 2013. I regret that, oh my God, this has been going on for over twelve years now, and I didn’t know anything about it,” she said.
“I think about the wasted time. The wasted time, the wasted sadness and the shame about it. I think about the wasted years,” Winfrey, 71, concluded.
