Oprah Winfrey looked lovely at the American Ballet Theatre Fall Gala held in New York City on Wednesday, Oct. 22. The former talk show host showed off her slim figure in a white gown that featured a black belted fabric that accentuated her trim waistline.
Winfrey was all smiles at the event as she posed for photos on the blue carpet. The appearance comes nearly two years after she admitted to using weight-loss drugs to help her maintain her physique.
“It was public sport to make fun of me for 25 years,” Winfrey told People magazine in December 2023. “I have been blamed and shamed, and I blamed and shamed myself.”
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“After knee surgery, I started hiking and setting new distance goals each week. I could eventually hike three to five miles every day and a 10-mile straight-up hike on weekends,” she continued. “I felt stronger, more fit and more alive than I’d felt in years.”
“I eat my last meal at 4 o’clock, drink a gallon of water a day, and use the WeightWatchers principles of counting points. I had an awareness of [weight-loss] medications, but felt I had to prove I had the willpower to do it. I now no longer feel that way,” she said, adding, “I was actually recommending it to people long before I was on it myself.”
Winfrey has long struggled with maintaining a healthy weight and has been open and honest about her ongoing weight loss journey. She opened up about taking a GLP-1 medication on an episode of her podcast.
“One of the things that I realized the very first time I took a GLP-1 was that all these years I thought that thin people just had more willpower, they ate better foods, they were able to stick to it longer, they never had a potato chip, and then I realized the very first time I took the GLP-1 that, ‘Oh, they’re not even thinking about it. They’re only eating when they’re hungry, and they’re stopping when they’re full,” she said on the podcast earlier this year.
This story was originally reported by Parade on Oct 23, 2025, where it first appeared in the Celebs section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.