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Oprah Winfrey has confirmed she is using a medication to help her maintain her weight loss, which she said has been a work in progress for the past two years.
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“I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing,” Winfrey told People magazine. “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 continued, “I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people, and particularly myself.”
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Winfrey, who will turn 70 in January, did not name the type of medication she is taking.
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Over the past year, use of drugs that can lead to weight loss, including Ozempic and Mounjaro, have skyrocketed in popularity. Earlier this year, weight-loss focused companies including Noom and WeightWatchers —
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the latter of which Winfrey owns stock in and sits on the board — jumped into the obesity drugs market as well.
Winfrey said she lost weight steadily over the past two years with a combination of diet and exercise, but had an “aha” moment on medication for weight loss this past summer, when she moderated a panel on weight for her Oprah Daily outlet.
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