{"id":328767,"date":"2025-12-05T05:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328767\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T05:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:34:11","slug":"oprah-discusses-social-media-ban-hugh-jackman-and-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328767\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah discusses social media ban, Hugh Jackman and weight loss drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 71-year-old former talk show host is on her first trip to Australia in 10 years in partnership with Lilly, which is next sending her to Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne to inspire audiences by speaking about \u201cthe power of authenticity\u201d and \u201cnecessity of resilience\u201d, according to Oprah In Conversation: Presented by Lilly\u2019s blurb.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Australia\u2019s medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), issued a safety warning<\/a> over the risk of suicidal thoughts and reduced effectiveness of oral contraception linked with GLP-1 receptor agonists, including Mounjaro, Ozempic, Wegovy and more.<\/p>\n

No such drug was mentioned by Winfrey on stage on Thursday. The closest thing to an outright acknowledgement of GLP-1 receptor agonist medications, which Winfrey confirmed in 2023 she uses<\/a>, was from a clip of a previous television appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never dreamed that we would be talking about medicines that are providing hope for people like me who have struggled for years with being overweight or with obesity,\u201d Winfrey said in the pre-recorded video, aired in a package that was played before she got on stage.<\/p>\n

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It wasn\u2019t until 52 minutes into her mammoth one-hour-and-40-minute-long sit-down that Winfrey mentioned her weight loss journey, alluding to her use of GLP-1 receptor agonists with the umbrella term \u201ctreatment\u201d.<\/p>\n

After making a promise to God as she recovered from double knee surgery in 2021, Winfrey hikes daily, she says, including at Wattamolla in the Royal National Park while she\u2019s in Sydney, and Mount Kosciuszko in the Snowy Mountains.<\/p>\n

Another game-changing element in her weight loss journey, Winfrey said, was discovering obesity is a disease, a storyline mirrored in the myriad copies of the free Let\u2019s Talk magazine Lilly laid out in the auditorium\u2019s lobby for attendees to take.<\/p>\n

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Winfrey was generous with her time on Thursday night, speaking for so long that moderator Melissa Doyle was unable to ask her questions that had been submitted by the audience due to time running out.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the shame and blame I brought to myself all these years was unfounded because obesity is a disease,\u201d Winfrey said on stage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I discovered that it\u2019s a disease, I called my doctor and I started treatment. That is not one answer. It\u2019s a combination of all the things that I\u2019m doing. So I\u2019m working out. I\u2019m planking, I\u2019m doing resistance training, I\u2019m hiking and also eating a lot less. And through the treatment all of my food noise stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

That GLP-1 receptor agonists were not overtly mentioned by Winfrey or in the Let\u2019s Talk advertising magazine is a reflection of Australian rules forbidding the advertising of prescription-only medicines to the public. The TGA\u2019s policy is to prevent self-diagnosis based on incomplete or misleading information, and to ensure treatment decisions are made with a healthcare professional.<\/p>\n

Lilly advertised the event as a \u201crare opportunity\u201d to hear reflections from Winfrey that will \u201cresonate with anyone seeking purpose, inspiration, or a spark to reimagine their own path\u201d, and they delivered. But by her failure to address the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists directly on Thursday night, attendees may have left confused as well as inspired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 71-year-old former talk show host is on her first trip to Australia in 10 years in partnership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-328767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}