Whoopi Goldberg Admits To Using Weight Loss Drugs After Oprah's TV Special

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00:00 I just always felt like me.

00:02 Yeah.

00:03 And then I saw me and I thought, "Oh!

00:07 That's a lot of me."

00:10 Whoopi Goldberg is opening up about her experience using weight loss drugs, following Oprah Winfrey's

00:16 ABC special.

00:17 The View co-host revealed on the March 19th episode that she did use a weight loss drug

00:23 at one point for her health, when she almost weighed 300 pounds after gaining weight for

00:29 a movie role.

00:30 Because, you know, I will say, I will tell you, I weighed almost 300 pounds when I made

00:37 Till.

00:38 Yeah.

00:39 And, yeah, and I was, I had taken all those steroids, I was on all this stuff, and one

00:44 of the things that's helped me drop the weight is the, is the, not Majolica, Mujaro.

00:52 Mujaro.

00:53 That's what I use.

00:54 Whoopi went on to admit that she didn't realize how much weight she had gained until she looked

00:58 at herself one day in the mirror and saw she needed a change.

01:02 I thought, I just always felt like me.

01:04 Yeah.

01:05 And then I saw me and I thought, "Oh!

01:10 That's a lot of me."

01:12 The EGOT winner isn't the only one at the table who shared her experience using Mujaro.

01:17 Sunny Hostin also admitted she used the same weight loss drug after gaining 40 pounds a

01:22 few years back because she was shameful over how she looked.

01:26 What does Oprah use?

01:27 I, I don't know.

01:28 She, I don't know that she uses, used anything.

01:30 She was doing it all.

01:31 She does for she-ness now, though.

01:32 She didn't say what she uses, but she did indicate that she has used these weight loss

01:36 medications.

01:37 Mm-hmm.

01:38 And what, what I got from it, I have a similar story.

01:41 You know, during COVID, I gave 40 pounds.

01:43 I was horrified.

01:44 Forty?

01:45 Forty.

01:46 All I did was eat arroz con calamares.

01:48 And, you know, I mean, I, I love to cook and I found out I love to eat.

01:53 And I was horrified by the fact that I would have to come out on air.

01:57 I was.

01:58 And so I also took Mujaro.

02:00 And I got all these nasty e-mails and things.

02:04 What they said.

02:05 You're too, you're too skinny.

02:06 I'm too skinny.

02:07 And you, why did you do this?

02:09 And you're taking the drug away from diabetics and, and things like that.

02:12 And so there is shame when you've gained weight.

02:14 And I had, I had never experienced that kind of shame before.

02:17 And what I loved about what she said is obesity is a disease.

02:22 Right?

02:23 It's a disease.

02:24 And, and so when people are saying things to those that.

02:28 Wait a minute.

02:29 How is it a disease if you just were eating everything?

02:31 I didn't have the disease.

02:32 I didn't have.

02:33 Americans are clinically.

02:36 Yeah.

02:37 Americans that are clinically obese.

02:38 I wasn't clinically obese.

02:40 No, I was.

02:41 But she.

02:42 Yeah.

02:43 Yeah.

02:44 You know, I was just 40 pounds heavier.

02:46 And what I will say is if someone has diabetes and they're being treated for diabetes, it's fine.

02:53 When someone has cardi, you know, some sort of cardiac disease, that's fine.

02:58 They're not shamed for it.

02:59 But when someone is obese, they are shamed for it.

03:01 I found that my cholesterol went up to 200 when I gained the extra weight.

03:05 And I use Banjaro and my cholesterol is 140 now.

03:09 I feel better.

03:10 I think I look better.

03:11 And that's what this is about for people.

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05:03 So I come to this conversation in the hope that we can start releasing the stigma and

05:09 the shame and the judgment to stop shaming other people for being overweight or how they

05:17 choose to lose or not lose weight.

05:20 And more importantly, to stop shaming ourselves.

05:23 I have to say that I took on the shame that the world gave to me.

05:29 For 25 years, making fun of my weight was national sport.

05:34 And I'll never forget a day in 1990, I saw myself on the cover of TV Guide's best and

05:40 worst dress list.

05:41 And I remember thinking at first, oh, look, there I am on the cover.

05:45 And then I read the headline that Mr. Blackwell, the tastemaker of the time, called me bumpy,

05:53 lumpy and downright dumpy.

05:56 I was ridiculed on every late night talk show for 25 years and tabloid covers for 25 years.

06:02 Here are just a few of the thousands of headlines written about me.

06:06 Oprah, fatter than ever.

06:08 Oprah hits 246 pounds.

06:11 Final showdown with Stedman sends her into feeding frenzy.

06:15 Oprah Warren, diet or die.

06:18 So in an effort to combat all the shame, I starved myself for nearly five months and

06:26 then wheeled out that wagon of fat that the Internet will never let me forget.

06:31 And after losing 67 pounds on liquid diet, the next day, y'all, the very next day, I

06:38 started to gain it back.

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