Oprah Winfrey showcased her impressive 40-pound weight loss in a stylish mustard-yellow turtleneck paired with matching wide-leg pants during the celebration of her friend Gayle King‘s 70th birthday, as shared in her recent Instagram post. The video featured Winfrey, also 70, surprising King and mingling with celebrity guests such as Tyler Perry, among others.
For her warm winter ensemble, the Color Purple alum accessorized with gold round glasses and wore her brunette hair, accented with caramel highlights, down in voluminous, glossy curls parted to the side. Winfrey captioned her December 29th post for her 22.5 million followers: “@gayleking’s actual birthday was yesterday December 28 and @tylerperry surprised her for dinner. I’m done with surprises for her after this! Promise.”
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Oprah Winfrey Shows Off Her Slimmed-Down Figure in a Mustard-Yellow Turtleneck for Gayle King’s Birthday After 40-Pound Weight Loss
Over the past few months, Winfrey has garnered significant media attention for her remarks about weight loss medications, including Ozempic, a diabetes drug that numerous celebrities have acknowledged using in a controversial effort to slim down more quickly.
While initially attributing her weight loss over the years to the WeightWatchers program and hiking, the television personality has since admitted to utilizing a weight loss medication herself. Last fall, Winfrey memorably deemed Ozempic to be the “easy way out.”
In a more recent interview with People Magazine, she explained why she is “done shaming” anyone for using drugs to lose weight, including herself. She also deemed the weight loss drug she uses to be a “gift,” igniting more backlash. Many fans on social media interpreted this drug to be Ozempic. In December 2023, Winfrey sat down with the outlet and revealed: "I now use [an unnamed weight loss drug] as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing."
The Wrinkle in Time actress went on: "The fact that there's a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for." She added: "I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself."
Winfrey stressed that while she takes weight loss medications, she still exercises. "After knee surgery, I started hiking and setting new distance goals each week," she dished to the publication. "I could eventually hike three to five miles every day and a 10-mile straight-up hike on weekends. I felt stronger, more fit and more alive than I’d felt in years."
When discussing her diet and the idea of taking drugs to lose weight, the television producer explained: "I eat my last meal at 4 o’clock, drink a gallon of water a day, and use the WeightWatchers principles of counting points. I had an awareness of [weight-loss] medications, but felt I had to prove I had the willpower to do it. I now no longer feel that way."
