American host and television producer Oprah Winfrey recently opened up about how her opinion about ‘thin people’ changed after she started taking weight loss drugs. During a recent conversation with Dr Ania Jastreboff on The Oprah Podcast, she admitted that weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy had changed her opinion of thin people.
“One of the things that I realized the very first time I took a GLP-1 was that all these years I thought that thin people—those people—had more willpower,” Winfrey said as quoted by HT. She revealed that earlier, she used to believe that “they ate better foods” and were able to stick to their diets “longer.”
The 70-year-old revealed that thin people “never had a potato chip.” However, it was when she began taking weight loss drugs that she realised her beliefs were far from the truth. “And then I realized the very first time I took the GLP-1 that they’re not even thinking about it,” Winfrey said of those people and food.
The Oscar winner confessed that after she started consuming weight loss drugs she realised that “willpower” was an absence of “food noise,” a term she uses to refer to intrusive thoughts related to hunger. “They’re eating when they’re hungry and they’re stopping when they’re full,” Winfrey said.
According to Winfrey, such a mentality does not work for those with “obesity.”
Winfrey went on to say, “Anytime any comedian wanted to make fun or make a joke about it, they would make a joke about it. And I accepted it because I thought I deserved it,” “I had an awareness of [weight loss] medications [before], but felt I had to prove I had the willpower to do it. I now no longer feel that way,” she added.