Somehow it feels like one of the world’s most celebrated media forces has morphed into a crass shill for Big Pharma.
Watching Oprah Winfrey on her new special promoting weight loss drugs to her youngest guest, an overweight teenage girl, made me want to throw up my raspberry mochi ball dessert. The show’s calledOr rather, how she made it. The show is billed as being about the stigma of the disease of obesity and how drugs like Ozempic help with it. Really, it’s all about Oprah and her life’s main struggle –weight.
I’m secretly rapt my 1991 wedding dress still fits, but that takes five weekly workouts. So on one judgemental and outdated hand, weight-loss drugs feel like cheating. Do the work, all you A-listers who madea freak show of human ironing boards. Just eat and move well. Especially because you have chefs and personal trainers.
Yet Oprah somehow turns her weight issues into our fault: “I’m absolutely done with the shaming ... For 25 years, making fun of my weight was national sport.” Last December she revealed she’d lost 18 kilograms in around five months using an unnamed drug – but her change of heart wasn’t addressed in the new special. Nor were the morals of rich and powerful people potentially creating drug supply issues for diabetics whose problem is staying alive, not vanity.
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