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.

“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.”

Winfrey, who will turn 70 in January, did not name the type of medication she is taking.

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 —

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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