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Oprah Winfrey is calling out the decades-long criticism of her weight in her ABC special about the rising trends of weight management drugs. Winfrey and a group of medical experts and patients addressed the myths surrounding obesity and the growing class of weight management injectables such as Ozempic and others in 'An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution.'

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00:00For 25 years, making fun of my weight was national sport.

00:05Oprah Winfrey is calling out the decades-long criticism of her weight in her ABC special

00:09about the rising trends of weight management drugs. Winfrey and a mix of medical experts

00:14and patients addressed the mid-surrounding obesity and the growing class of weight

00:18management injectables such as Ozempic and others in an Oprah special, Shame, Blame,

00:23and the Weight Loss Revolution. When I tell you how many times I've blamed myself because you think

00:28I'm smart enough to figure this out and then to hear all along it's you fighting your brain.

00:32Winfrey revealed she'd first been introduced to weight loss drugs while recovering from knee

00:36surgery in 2021. Though at the time she had no interest in the budding medical intervention

00:41saying I've got to do this on my own because if I take the drug that's the easy way out.

00:45In a December 2023 People cover story, Winfrey shared that her views on weight management

00:50injectables had changed. I had the biggest aha along with many people in that audience.

00:55I've realized I've been blaming myself all these years for being overweight and I have a

00:59predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control. Winfrey stated at the top of

01:04the telecast that the special was created for the more than 100 million people in the United States

01:08and people around the world who are living with obesity. Likening the conversation around the

01:13concept of obesity as a disease to the discussions had on the Oprah Winfrey show in the late 80s and

01:19early 90s when alcoholism was first understood to be a disease and not a choice. Winfrey invited experts

01:25to speak to the biological factors that play into weight gain and the mechanisms by which weight

01:29loss drugs can counter them. Dr. W. Scott Bush, director of obesity medicine in the Bariatric

01:35and Metabolic Institute at the Cleveland Clinic stated, there's a spectrum of obesity. It's not

01:39one disease, it's many different subtypes of a disease. Before addressing the myth that individuals

01:44who are overweight and obese have simply failed to control their weight through diet and exercise.

01:49Wrapping up the special, Winfrey reiterated her intention to release the judgment surrounding obesity

01:54and spoke directly to viewers at home with differing opinions on weight loss medications.

02:00It's now a sense of hope, number one, and number two, you no longer blame yourself.

02:07Yeah.

02:07Because when I tell you how many times I have blamed myself.

02:12For much more details on this special, head to THR.com and for the latest entertainment news

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