Oprah Winfrey Addresses Weight Loss Transformation After Admitting She Considered Ozempic

Oprah Winfrey addressed her weight loss when she attended the premiere of "The Color Purple" wearing a stunning violet gown.

The multimedia mogul graced the purple carpet with her noticeable curves in her fitted regal purple dress when she attended the star-studded premiere of "The Color Purple" at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frazier asked the 69-year-old celebrity about her physical transformation.

"What's going on? Because if this is WeightWatchers, please, sign me up tonight!" he said.

"It's not one thing, it's everything," Winfrey responded.

She reportedly emphasized how much she wanted to change her appearance to look good at her age and successfully did it.

"I intend to keep it that way," she said, even sharing what she did before attending the event.

"I was on that treadmill today," Winfrey added.

Winfrey starred in the 1985 drama and earned an Oscar nomination for her performance. She still remembers the original movie's premiere night nearly four decades ago when David Letterman escorted her across the street.

"I remember that it was a really big night," Winfrey recalled. "Tina Turner was there, and Sidney Poitier was there, and, you know, they're no longer with us, but it was really, really important, and I'll never forget it."

Winfrey's recent appearance happened amid the ongoing social media rumors about her health and fitness. Some questioned whether she was among the celebrities who used Ozempic to slim down. 

In September, she hosted a panel for Oprah Daily titled "The Life You Want Class: The State of Weight," where they discussed the ongoing obesity and weight crisis in the country with obesity specialists Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford and Dr. Melanie Jay; psychologist Dr. Rachel Goldman; and Sima Sistani, the CEO of WeightWatchers.

During the panel, Winfrey admitted that she considered using Ozempic for weight loss as an "easy way out" but eventually decided against it.

"Shouldn't we all just be more accepting of whatever body you choose to be in? That should be your choice," Winfrey said. "Even when I first started hearing about the weight loss drugs, at the same time I was going through knee surgery, and I felt: 'I've got to do this on my own.' Because if I take the drug, that's the easy way out.'"

Winfrey admitted that she was "shamed in the tabloids every week for about 25 years" for "not having the willpower" to shed the extra pounds, and it was demoralizing to see how Ozempic had become so popular. 

Dr. Stanford pointed out that "obesity is a chronic disease," which is why she doesn't use "willpower" when she talks to her patients about weight loss.

"It's hard to see you ostracised in the way that you've been. Because this isn't about willpower. It's not your fault," she told Winfrey. "It's how our bodies regulate weight, and each of us is different, each of us is unique, not one is superior to another. We're just different, and acting on those differences and treating the differences in the heterogeneity of the population is how we're going to actually make change in this disease."