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Oprah Winfrey Says She Set an 'Unrealistic Standard' for Dieting: 'I Own What I've Done'

The media mogul teamed up with WeightWatchers for a YouTube special in which she discussed shifting away from diet culture.

"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 confessed during the special, recalling the infamous episode of her talk show. One such example of Winfrey's public shaming was a 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show when the late Joan Rivers was the guest host for Johnny Carson. That was the start of a vicious cycle that ended in the liquid diet, where I starved myself for months and the result was that now famous wagon of fat moment."

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