Oprah Winfrey Reflects on the Hurtful Thing Joan Rivers Said About Her Weight on Live TV | Joan Rivers, Oprah Winfrey | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Oprah Winfreyis opening up about being body-shamed by the late Joan Rivers.

On a current episode of the Jamie Kern Lima Present podcast, the media mogul recalled being invited to speak about her then-booming TV present, A.M. Chicago, throughout her first look on The Tonight Present in 1985.

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“Joan Rivers turns to me and he or she says, ‘Inform me, why are you so fats?’” she recalled.

She went on to say she was so shocked by having her weight known as out “on nationwide tv” that she didn’t know “what to do with that.”

“I simply [said], like, ‘Oh, I simply love potato chips, Joan,’” she stated, to which the late comic stated again, “Disgrace on you.”

“I’ll allow you to come again when you lose 15 lbs. You might want to lose 15 lbs,” Joan then added.

“I settle for[ed] that I ought to be shamed, as a result of how dare me, be sitting up right here on The Tonight Present,” Oprah recalled.

“After all, I didn’t lose the 15 lbs. I went and ate my method to one other 10 lbs,” Oprah stated, including that it led her to enroll in a “well being retreat” to slim down.

“On the time, they known as them ‘fats farms,’” she stated. She is now considered one of many stars who’ve admitted to utilizing weight reduction medicine like Ozempic.