"Just when we thought weight loss meds had hit Peak Hype, Winfrey has entered the chat, releasing her latest book, "Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like To Be Free," cowritten with Dr. Ania Jastreboff. The book catalogs her seemingly on-again, off-again, now committed relationship to the medication, starting in 2023. It also comes after her full-throated endorsement of the medications."
"Winfrey secured her status as a health authority from early in her career with a unique empathy toward personal weight loss stories. Her eponymous talk show provided a rare safe space for overweight people to open up about their experiences, said Sabrina Strings, author of "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia." "It was probably the only place you could go in public and not be shamed as long as you were repentant," she told Business Insider."
Oprah Winfrey publicly embraced GLP-1 weight-loss medications after a history of starting, stopping, and recommitting to the drugs beginning in 2023. Her visible endorsement reframed weight loss from willpower-driven approaches to a medical model focused on pharmacological treatment. That visibility lowered stigma and encouraged public conversation about medication-assisted weight management. Winfrey's long reputation for empathetic engagement with personal weight stories amplified the effect by making medication use feel permissible and relatable. The cultural impact intersected with broader debates about celebrity influence, body stigma, and the commercialization of weight loss products.
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