” shared on Tuesday, Winfrey spoke about how mocking her for her size was an “accepted” form of ridicule.“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.”
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.“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 . And the woman was me.