Oprah Winfrey is opening up about her weight loss journey in a new book, sharing how she overcame the “shame of not being able to manage my weight.”
“Enough” (out now from Simon & Schuster) is a collaboration between Winfrey and Dr. Ania M. Jastreboff, an endocrinologist and professor at the Yale School of Medicine. Jastreboff, who has been studying obesity for nearly 20 years, shares context and research about the disease, diet fads and weight loss drugs.
“Recognizing once and for all that obesity is not a moral failing, that it’s a chronic, relapsing disease – that has been life-changing for me. I did not get the memo 10 years ago, but now I know and I want to spread that information to as many people as I can,” Winfrey writes.
As long as she’s been a household name, Winfrey has been open about her weight – though it wasn't by choice at first. In “Enough,” Winfrey recalls “one of the most humiliating moments of her life” when Joan Rivers asked her how she gained weight on The Tonight Show in 1985. From there, Winfrey became “a running joke.”
“David Letterman made fun of me for an entire year,” Winfrey writes in "Enough."
