Oprah Gains Weight, Discovers That She’s Human After All
In what is probably the biggest non-news of the new year so far, it has come out that Oprah Winfrey (otherwise known as Queen Of All She Surveys) is upset with herself that she’s regained some of the weight she worked so hard to lose:
Oprah Winfrey blames the mild depression she suffered after gaining so much weight last year on working too much at the expense of taking the time to relax.
Winfrey yesterday confessed on her U.S. television show that she was miserable - although she never came out and admitted she had depression - and vowed to change her attitude towards food.
The 54-year-old, who at one point tipped the scales at 14.3 stone, said she was determined to change in 2009.
She said: ‘It’s not about the food. It’s about using food - abusing food.
‘Too much work and not enough play. Not enough time to come down. Not enough time to really relax.
‘I am hungry for balance. I’m hungry to do something other than work.
Winfrey, who has been diagnosed with a hormonal imbalance known as hypothyroidism, says she is now devoting more time from her 14-hour workday schedule to her own well-being, which includes regular exercise.[...]
Winfrey said she began suffering sleep issues and heart palpitations over a year ago.
‘None of the doctors recognised it was a thyroid problem, but our viewers did,’ she said. ‘The moment I heard I had a thyroid problem, I thought I don’t even know how to fight this. It’s about balance. When I ask myself what I am hungry for, I am hungry for balance.’
Her fitness guru also appeared on yesterday’s broadcast and said Winfrey had lost her ‘zest for life’
Bob Greene said he was alarmed at the change in the behaviour of the chat show queen, who has struggled with her weight throughout her life.
He said things got particularly bad in 2008 when she couldn’t shift the extra pounds.
‘I looked in her eyes, and she wasn’t there,’ he said. ‘She was very vacant and distracted. It was alarming to me.
‘I think I felt she was losing her zest for life, and that was one of the saddest moments.’
Okay. Where do I start?
First of all, if you have a thyroid problem (and I’m not blowing smoke here, I’ve been diagnosed with a very malfunctioning thyroid as well) then you’ve got to get that issue taken care of before weight comes off. It’s just that simple. All the rest and “taking time for yourself” and “discovering ‘me’ time” and “getting in touch with the inner me” isn’t going to do you a spit’s worth of good if your thyroid is going wonky. You’ve got to get that taken care of, and that should ideally be done through one’s physician. And quite frankly, I NEVER watch Oprah’s show and I figured out on my own that she had a thyroid problem, so if her doctors couldn’t see it then I respectfully submit that she find new doctors.
Second…the woman is fifty-four years old. I don’t care what anyone says, most (and I’m using generalities here) women in their fifties usually do carry around a few extra pounds. Oh, I know Madonna doesn’t, but she exercises four hours and eats one organic poached fish fillet a day. But most normal women do have a few extra pounds here and there, and they do find it harder to lose those pounds as they get older. It’s a normal part of aging. I’m not even forty yet and I find that it is harder for me to lose weight now than it was when I was in my late teens…that’s because my body is different now than it was then. That isn’t failure, it’s a part of life. Now, you can’t fall back on that as an excuse to gain weight, but you do have to work at finding different ways of losing it.
And last, but certainly not least…this is why I have issues with Oprah, and generally any celeb who starts touting their personal way of life as The Way To Eternal Happiness and if you’d only listen to every little thing that comes out of their mouths and do every little thing they say to do, you’d find The Way To Eternal Happiness too. How many diets, eating plans, life plans, and the like has Oprah touted through the years? How many books has she authored or endorsed which tell us what to eat, how to eat, what exercises to do, what thoughts to think to help us be happy? Yet, here she is, at the end of it all, still fighting a weight issue, still not happy? Yet, she’s had the gall all these years to try and tell US what to do to be happy? What happened to all those diets, food programs, self-help books? Did she fail at them…or, much more likely, were they all a bunch of hooey to start with?
I’m not picking on Oprah because she gained back a little weight. It happens to the best of us. And she’s right about one thing…many of us do use food for something other than its intended purpose. I’m just saying that she doesn’t have all the answers and all the Oprahloonies who hang on her every word, buy every book she authors or endorses, and participates in all the New Age crap she touts, need to step back and realize their idol is just like everybody else. Most of us do have the problem of too much work versus not enough relaxing time, and we do get depressed that we gain a bit of weight and we don’t have enough time to rest and devote to something other than work…that’s called LIFE, and in that respect she needs to stop acting like hers is somehow different from ours. Welcome to the real world, Oprah. Congratulations, you’re just like the rest of us…and quite frankly, we’re sick of hearing about it.
Oprah doesn’t have all the answers, people, and this should make it obvious. She’s so busy trying to change the world that she is losing herself.
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Oprah CAN relax if she wants too. Not like me who has to time my rest according to my finances. She DOES need to change her doctors if they couldn’t diagnose her thyroid problem. Complaining of unexplainable tiredness my doctor tested for an underfunctioning thyroid and found it. Maybe I should give her his address.
She could turn to her friend Tom Cruise for advice, he KNOWS exactly how to fix it……..sorry that was a joke in very bad taste.
Comment by Madeleine — January 7, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Oprah is overweight for the same reason that I am overweight. She eats too much. While it is true that women seem to have a relationship with food that men don’t–eating too much when tired, stressed, etc.–the top, bottom and middle line is that fat, obesity, overweight, whatever you want to call it, is caused by eating too much food. Because it tastes good.
Comment by Brownie — January 7, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
This is WEEKS old news…
Perhaps you should spend less time formulating your nasty and uninteresting quips on celebrities and more time on finding gossip that is actually interesting to read about…
…or maybe someone will kill another kid soon and you can jump all over that.
This website is having a MAJOR identity crisis.
I’m still not sure if this is a site about celebrity gossip or ambulance chasing.
I guess only time will tell.
Comment by froose — January 7, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
froose, perhaps you’d like to make a suggestion as to what stories you’d like to see. I know I’d be just terribly interested to hear what your ideas are.
Comment by k — January 7, 2009 @ 5:09 pm
You’re right, Madeleine, Tom could personally — personally! — help her lose the weight. X-D
I could not believe that the news media spent 2 weeks covering Oprah’s latest obsession with herself and that she actually spent an entire show talking about it this week. Thank you for saying here that we’ve all had enough of it. You’re right, lots of people her age have weight problems, she needs to get over herself, sheesh.
Comment by Jannah — January 7, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
oprah is a complete bore, i have never in my life seen anyone as narcissist and self absorbed as her. she seems to think the whole world is interested in her every utterance. it was even on larry king last nite, he rebroadcast almost her whole show where she was talking about it.
Comment by sally — January 7, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
K,
Just go back and check the gossip archives from sites like Defamer, Gawker, TMZ, etc. (anything from 2 or 3 weeks ago will do) and you’ll be all set with what should be tons of new information for you.
Your welcome in advance,
F
Comment by froose — January 7, 2009 @ 7:56 pm
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Well, thanks for the non-advice. I didn’t figure you’d come up with anything concrete or interesting, but I thought I’d give it a shot.
Oh, btw, in case you’ve been reading here, we’ve been basically on hiatus for the Christmas holidays so we could spend time with our children and families…who are ultimately much more important than some celeb site. I’ve been doing some periodic updating here but nothing substantial so that I could be with my kids. I saw when this story came out, but I wasn’t interested in reporting on it then…since, say it with me, I was spending time with my kids.
Besides, Oprah and her people have kept this in the news and talked about it on Tuesday’s show…Tuesday, as in yesterday (January 6). They had to keep it in the news to build up excitement between the taping and the airing. So this story is actually pretty current, seeing as how her show was aired, let me check…yesterday.
Celebs are always going to be doing something stupid, but my kids won’t be home forever, so I chose to wait on the story. If that doesn’t sit well with your delicate sensibilities, there are lots of other sites which I am sure would be thrilled to be graced by your presence. Unless you just love to take specific time out of your day to come here.
Thanks, and have a nice day.
Comment by k — January 7, 2009 @ 11:49 pm
Hey Froose, I won’t be as kind and diplomatic as k, so let me suggest you kiss my ass on your way out the internet door. Plenty of bullshit you can read elsewhere.
Seriously, get gone.
Comment by D — January 8, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
She’s fat becuse she likes eating PIES. Who ate all the pies, who ate the pies ad finitum………
Comment by Sally — January 10, 2009 @ 7:07 pm
Some bird that runs a shit celebrity website ia having a go at other people for not coming up with ‘anything concrete or interesting’. Oh my days, you really don’t understand irony do you?
Comment by Saly — January 11, 2009 @ 10:11 pm
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