Oprah Winfrey has been slammed for her theory about ‘thin people’ while discussing her use of weight loss drugs to shed nearly 50lbs.
In 2023, the media mogul, 70, finally admitted to using an undisclosed GLP-1 — a type 2 diabetes medication that can also aid in weight loss such as Ozempic or Wegovy — to drop weight after decades of yo-yo dieting.
Discussing the function and safety of these types of drugs with Dr. Ania Jastreboff on the latest episode of her podcast, Winfrey said: ‘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 had more willpower. They ate better foods. They were able to stick to it longer. They never had a potato chip.’
Followers took to Winfrey’s Instagram comment section to slam her for ‘supporting widespread use of the drugs’ and for lumping all ‘thin people’ into the same category.
One wrote: ‘I like Oprah, but I don’t like her supporting widespread use of these drugs. They add costs to the system and are not effective long term. Only in extreme cases should this drug be used for weight loss.
A second typed: ‘This just makes me mad. You make your own GLP1 in your gut when your nutrition and exercise are on point. Remove agri-food – created to keep us numb and sick – move your body and heal.’
A third wrote: ‘Thin people also think about food all the time , but they work hard to manage their physical and mental needs in a healthy way , and not by taking medication.’
Another wrote: ‘To characterize thin people wholesale in this manner is just a lie @oprah. There are many thin people, or others who are a healthy weight but not necessarily “thin” who do in fact draw on willpower and strategic tactics to keep their weight down.
‘They create an environment that unlike most of our society, is NOT obesogenic. I forbid myself from eating until I’ve walked for an hour. That’s willpower.’
