Outrage Erupts as Oprah Winfrey Shares Her Controversial Past Thoughts on Thin People

Media maven Oprah Winfrey stirred controversy during a recent “The Oprah Podcast”& episode& with Yale University obesity medicine physician Dr. Ania Jastreboff. The converoversial conversation challenged her long-held beliefs about weight, willpower, and obesity.& Their conversation revealed a profound shift in the “The Color Purple” producer’s understanding of weight management, sparking intense online debate about body size and societal perceptions on why some people are heavy and others are thin. The interview seemed to rub some the wrong way when Winfrey candidly shared her previous misconceptions about 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—just had more willpower,” she explained.& Media maven Oprah Winfrey is under fire for saying that “thin people” don’t think about food the same way that heavier people do. (Photo: @oprah / Instagram) Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications are used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity. Some of the most popular GLP-1 medications are Ozempic, Wegovy, and, Mounjaro. Winfrey added that she believed, “They ate better foods. They were able to stick to it longer. They never had a potato chip.” Now she doesn’t believe...