Oprah Winfrey's appearance atParis Fashion Weekearlier this month has become the latest flashpoint in the celebrity weight-loss conversation. On the March 6 episode ofThe Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly said that the veteran broadcaster was almost unrecognisable, pointing to Winfrey's noticeably slimmer frame and asking whether she was trying to look 'hot at 72.'
For context, discussion around Winfrey's weight loss was already circulating before Kelly weighed in. Photos and video from Paris drew attention to a leaner silhouette, a more defined face and what some online viewers thought was an unsteady turn in heels. All of this fed into a familiar, if increasingly sour, internet ritual where famous women's bodies become public property the moment they change.
Kelly's remarks were blunt and, at moments, faintly incredulous. Referring to video footage from the event, she told guest Mark Halperin, 'I would not have recognized this as Oprah Winfrey if it were not labeled as such by video online.'
That line did most of the work. It framed Winfrey's appearance not simply as different but as a kind of rupture from the version of her that audiences had stored away over decades.
At one of the fashion week events, Winfrey wore a salmon blazer pulled in at the waist, paired with a white collared blouse, baggy tan trousers and kitten heels. Kelly did not argue that Winfrey looked unwell in any confirmed medical sense. Instead, she zeroed in on contrast.
'She is not skeletal, but she is extremely thin for Oprah, and, I have to say, I miss heavy Oprah. I don't need 300-pound Oprah, but I miss somebody with a little weight on her body,' Kelly said.
Kelly was not really talking about tailoring or Paris style. She seemed to be mourning a public persona she associated with warmth, softness and emotional accessibility.
'Is she going for hot at 72? Her whole thing was always that she was like a mother earth character who you could hug, who would feel your pain, and you could cry on her couch,' she continued. It was less a fashion critique than a complaint that Winfrey no longer fits the emotional silhouette some viewers had assigned to her years ago.
Oprah looking like she's taking Ozempic for breakfast lunch and dinnerpic.twitter.com/6WrQe0APcp
OK!ties Winfrey's recent weight loss toGLP-1drugs, but Kelly's segment was driven far more by aesthetics than evidence. Neither motive nor current health details were established in the discussion, and no fresh comment from Winfrey was included. Some of the louder claims should therefore be treated with a grain of salt.
Source: International Business Times UK
