Skinny Oprah On The Cover Of Vogue

With gal pals.

Who in the ham sammich is this?

Losing weight made her teefs stick out.

Lady in red. The best photo of the bunch.

Remember when TV Guide put Oprah's head on Ann-Margret's body?

Literal GENOCIDE of White Bodies.

Not a pretty gal....

I remember it was controversial because it barely looked like her (she was promoting Beloved at the time). There was also a mini-scandal because, allegedly, Anna Wintour had made the cover conditional...Oprah had to lose weight or it wasn’t going to happen.

The black female comics used to ridicule her on "In Living Color". I think it was Kim Wayans who did the skit where a skinny Oprah kept eating junk food and eventually blew up like Violet in "Willy Wonka". It became more hysterical because it showed that Oprah was not the goddess to black women that she thought she was.

R8 really? Oh, Excuse my post at R6.

Literal Genocide of Black Bodies!

R5 I was just going to post something about that. I was only 10 years old, but I recall people talking about it after the truth was revealed.

HARPO, who dat? Her waistline been squeaked.

Why is her head/face seemed pasted on all of them?

That doesn't even look like her, in the Vogue spread.

1998 Photoshop. Primitive.

The photos are edited of course, but they also did things like hide her stomach with a chair or by putting her in a weird position, and having skirts that flared out to hide the hips.

Unfortunately, her face looks very strange without the weight. In the cover photo, she looks almost ill.

She probably was ill because fat people need to starve to loose weight.

She's admitted to being arrogant during this period.

[quote]people need to starve to loose weight

OH DEAR! I am going to lose it with your loose!

Then the movie bombed and she gobbled up two chaffing dishes of macaroni and cheese.

R18 So what is her excuse for her current arrogance?

Sadly it goes to show that it is really hard to keep the weight off.

It's easier when you don't binge-eat 30 pounds of macaroni and cheese to deal with life's disappointments.

She is rich beyond comprehension. Successful. Happy. Has good friends. A partner. And has a lot of power within the industry. She has recorded one of the most watched interviews ever. Go Oprah. Go

To quote OP:

"Get a life, whore.

Go see a psychiatrist to figure out why you are still interested in someone you don't like.

Move on."

R23 Who hasn't binged on 30 pounds of mac and cheese?

Some people are made to be larger and they don't look right thin--Oprah, Al Roker, Star Jones. Not everyone is supposed to be skinny.

BELOVED bombing must have been a humiliating defeat for Oprah. Up to that point, everything she touched seemed to turn to gold -- her monthly book club produced many bestsellers simply on the basis of her recommendation -- and BELOVED was touted as a potentially big Oscar contender. But then the movie opened and tanked big time!

Remember when she got sued by the beef industry?

She looked like shit in The Color Purple. Her makeup person is a true artist, she is not a natural beauty.

I think Oprah is quite lovely and looks better with a little extra weight. That being said, all those photos look shopped to hell. She looks great but I don't think that's what she looked like in real life before editing was done.

Oprah gurl, you don't need it ALL. You aren't a movie STAH, you're a media mogul. Settle for that.

Remember the wagon of fat?

[quote]In 1988, Oprah Winfrey wheeled out a little red wagon containing 67 pounds of animal fat — the amount of weight she’d then lost — just to show her audience what she’d accomplished.

From her heaviest to her skinniest was more like a 125 pound difference.

Who’s she kidding with this 67 pound thing?

Did she drop the weight with meth?

When I went to WW they acted like she was a god. Why should I take advice from a woman who has all the means and money but can't control her own weight?

I think she looks lovely. Oprah might not be traditionally attractive to everyone, but I've always found her to be a very attractive woman. I know a lot of people think she's full of shit, but she's always struck me as meaning well.

And let's see in a few months when the snacking takes over.

Black women are genetically made to gain weight as they get older - it's a fact of life, especially the big behinds. Oprah gave it the old college try but she needs to relax now that she's getting older and just be herself, including her weight.

She looked completely different in the Markle interview. Like 50 pounds different, is this a late April Fool’s joke.

Oops nevermind. This is skinny Oprah from the past not current fat Oprah. She’ll never be this skinny again.

r38 especially since she OWNS weight watchers ...

Damn! If she had stayed at that weight, I would have married her years ago.

I met her during the Beloved era, and she was skinny in person with a huge head and a big bellowing voice.

Every single depleted fat cell in her temporarily skinny body must have been screaming 24/7 BREAD!!!!!! MAC & CHEESE!!!! It's a wonder she didn't use drugs again. Or did she?

She looks uncomfortable and stiff in every shot. I guess a big ego control freak never does well when somebody else is in control.

Anyone else thinking she looks a lot like Angela Bassett in the OP's links?

The Vogue cover is so overly photoshopped.

She has so much yet she cannot control herself. If I was that wealthy I'd have a master chef preparing every meal I eat, a live-in trainer, and an onsite workout room, and people to keep me constantly moving and motivated. Instead, she eats mac and cheese and bacon cheeseburgers.

She's incredibly wealthy and influential, but she got that way by being vulnerable on camera in a way very few people have the nerve to be.

I appreciate her overall. I remember when she used to do shows that showed her without any makeup. For example, she's open the show on full glam with the hair and lashes and makeup and then laugh at video of herself running a 10k with no makeup and looking really rough. That's where her power came from. A lot of women and men yo-yo diet and as successful as she has been, she never took herself too seriously or became as pretentious as someone like Madonna.

Oprah has overcome a horrible childhood into one of the most successful women ever and gives it back ten fold. So what if she is fat?

She’s not really fat. She is plump, but she also looks good that way.

She looks sickly when she gets too skinny.

And, anyway, why do we give a shit what she looks like? She’s one of the most successful people on the planet.

Why R48? Maybe due to the fact that eating and dieting have been the bane of her very existence. It is and always has been, the most important thing in her life.

Then she ate it all back.

The most important thing in her life, R49?

She was serially raped by multiple uncles throughout her childhood.

She moved around the country to find jobs as a news reporter.

She dedicated her talk show to a mix of celebrity worship, personal safety, reading and self-improvement.

She single handedly made reading fiction a popular pastime when trash TV shows dominated the public's minds, boosted the publishing industry and made the greatest experimental author of our time, Toni Morrison--our era's William Faulkner--nearly as well known to the non-reading US public as Madonna.

You're choosing to focus on her weight. It doesn't seem like the most important thing in her life to me. She has been preoccupied with fad diets and other self-help efforts, but she seems far more preoccupied with literature, spiritual pursuits and doing charitable things for other people.

[quote]It became more hysterical because it showed that Oprah was not the goddess to black women that she thought she was.

White women relate to movie stars, that's who they want to be. Black women relate to singers. Doesn't matter how they look as long as they speak to them Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Lena Horne, Aretha, Whitney, Beyonce ... the could be conventionally beautiful or not.

White women made Oprah a star.

R52 That's quite a stereotype...it doesn't really match my experience. Most white women I know are more concerned with musicians than they are to actresses--but they primarily are interested in male singers. I'm thinking of my white women friends and I can't think of any who care at all about any actresses or ever mention them, except for saying how much they dislike people like Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie.

Thinking of my black women friends, they do love soulful black women singers from Aretha and Patti to Whitney, but they equally love Michael Jackson, Prince and Stevie Wonder, as well as actors from Viola Davis and Octavia Smith and Cecily Tyson to Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. Generally speaking, the black women I know do gravitate toward black performers, but both men and women pretty equally.

R51 You write that I am choosing to focus on her weight and wonder why.

I wonder why you have missed something so obvious. Her lifelong battle with her weight. She is completely obsessed.

Spiritual pursuits? The only thing she finds spiritual is Hermes handbags.

R27-So true.

I do not like skinny Al Roker

I like FAT Al Roker.

I do not like skinny Oprah

I like FAT Oprah.

R55 And you don't like Star Jones any which way!

Beloved bombing was such a blow to Oprah and her career. A dream project that disintegrated.

I don't think the problem was so much Oprah but the film tanked because it was playing in multiplexes in suburbs and... it was not that type of film. It was more of an art film, despite the pedigree of Oprah and Jonathan Demme, coming off the back-to-back success of Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia.

And it's a downer of a film. It was never destined to be a commercial success. I'm surprised that Oprah thought it might be. Her instincts about how this film would be perceived were completely off.

But I do think it's a good film. The cinematography is excellent and the sore by Rachel Portman is lovely and underrated.

Oprah doesn't do stairs. I picture her exercise as gingerly walking around her property, I can't see her breaking a sweat.

Is this the same fat ass bitch of colour who interview us 4 weeks ago? Because...

Did Megan fart at that point of the interview?

The 'Prah looks like she's smelling a big one.

" .............. and the sore by Rachel Portman is lovely and underrated"

Rachel has a sore? Where!

R59 she looks like a cartoon mad scientist.