Oprah Winfrey Reveals Why She Left WeightWatchers After Nearly 10 Years

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00:00 Why did you quit Weight Watchers?

00:02 - Oprah Winfrey has revealed why she left

00:04 her nearly decade-long partnership with Weight Watchers.

00:08 Speaking with Jimmy Kimmel during a recent episode

00:10 of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Oprah told the late night hosts

00:12 that her upcoming special titled,

00:13 "An Oprah Special, Shame, Blame,

00:15 and the Weight Loss Revolution,"

00:17 played a significant role in why she left

00:19 the weight loss company.

00:20 - I decided that because this special

00:25 was really important to me and I wanted to be able

00:27 to talk about whatever I wanted to talk about

00:29 and Weight Watchers is now in the business

00:32 of being a weight health company

00:34 that also administers drug medications for weight.

00:38 I did not want to have the appearance

00:41 of any conflict of interest.

00:43 - Oprah added that she resigned from the board

00:44 and donated all her shares to the National Museum

00:47 of African American History and Culture.

00:49 - Nobody can say, so nobody can say,

00:51 "Oh, she's doing that special,

00:53 "she's making money and promoting her."

00:55 No, you cannot say that.

00:56 - Did the people at Weight Watchers cry when you left?

00:58 - They almost did.

00:59 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:00 I would imagine they wouldn't be that happy.

01:02 - They almost did.

01:03 - Her departure comes a few months after

01:05 she told People Magazine in December

01:07 that she uses weight loss medication.

01:09 Jimmy and Oprah then discussed Oprah's upcoming special

01:11 on ABC and she revealed how she felt

01:13 going back to film and host in front of a studio audience.

01:15 - I haven't done it for 13 years.

01:17 It's 13 years since the Oprah show ended this May.

01:21 And when I walked into the studio to do that,

01:25 I had one of those,

01:27 it was like triggered in a very nice way.

01:29 I mean, I felt like, first of all, the audience

01:33 and having all the cameras and knowing

01:36 that you were doing this for broadcast television

01:38 was really, it was really a good thing.

01:40 It felt good.

01:42 - The seven-year-old author also touched on

01:43 why the topic of weight loss was selected,

01:45 sharing that she spoke with doctors for opradaily.com

01:48 and understood for the first time

01:49 when they said obesity is a disease.

01:52 - Obesity is a disease.

01:55 It is not a disease for everybody who's overweight.

01:58 It is a disease if you carry the gene

02:02 or the propensity for the adipose gene,

02:05 which is the fat gene.

02:06 So not everybody who over drinks is an alcoholic,

02:11 but if you have the gene for it, you develop alcoholism.

02:15 It is the same thing with people who have obesity.

02:20 Not everybody who eats a lot

02:22 and shows up with extra weight has that gene

02:27 or carries that propensity.

02:28 But because it's a big spectrum, it's a spectrum,

02:32 just like everything is a spectrum.

02:34 So, but if you do carry it,

02:36 you will always, always put the weight back on.

02:40 - An Oprah special, "Shame, Blame,

02:42 and the Weight Loss Revolution"

02:43 is set to air Monday, March 18th on ABC

02:45 at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and the next day on Hulu.

02:49 (upbeat music)

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