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Oprah Winfrey Opens Up About Her Decades-Long Weight Shaming in TV Special: 'I Was Ridiculed'

The media mogul got candid about the public humiliation she's faced over the decades regarding her body and her health.

Winfrey then went on to read just a handful of the mean, hurtful and downright cruel tabloid headlines that have been published over the past two decades, mocking her weight, speculating on her health and overtly insulting her appearance. "In an effort to combat all the shame, I starved myself for nearly five months, and then, wheeled out that wagon of fat that the internet will never let me forget," Winfrey said, recalling a particularly infamous episode of her talk show. An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution aired March 18 on ABC and will be available the next day on Hulu.

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