LOADING ERROR LOADING Oprah Winfrey is reflecting on how her weight has been the topic of national conversation for decades. During a candid conversation on the first episode of “ The Jamie Kern Lima Show ” shared on Tuesday, Winfrey spoke about how mocking her for her size was an “accepted” form of ridicule. Advertisement “For 25 years, every single week in one form or another, there was some tabloid exploitation of my weight,” she said, adding that “making fun of my weight was national sport for 25 years.
” “Comedians did it, the best comedians did it, the highest comedians did it, people with their shows did it ― it was just accepted that you could make fun of me and my weight,” she said before listing off some of the things people had done that had stuck with her to this day. Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere for Hulu's "The 1619 Project" at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Jan. 26, 2023, in Los Angeles.
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images “One of the most hurtful things was ‘In Living Color’ had done a skit where the woman was doing something and she just kept eating and getting fatter and fatter and fatter,” Winfrey explained. “And the comedy bit was that eventually she just exploded, and you know, the whole audience fell out [laughing]. And the woman was me.
” Advertisement “And that was just accepted! That was just a thing that was accepted,” Winfrey said. “So I have borne this weight thing and carried it to the point w.