Oprah Winfrey has opened up about the immense pain she felt from being body shamed for decades Oprah Winfrey, best known for her daytime talk show, is one of the more personalities on television.

And her haters often troll her for being bigger, even though she’s a good weight and perfectly styled to show off her curves.

Now she’s telling People that she’s fully aware that she’s been shamed all this time and has to deal with it. “It was a public sport that mocked me for 25 years,” she told the publication.

And only recently did she realize she had been blaming herself all these years for being overweight.

This comes after she finally admitted she used diet pills for her dramatic body transformation – after previously denying that she would take Ozempic or similar drugs to lose weight.

‘The things that were said about me, said to me, around me, the jokes that were made. You could not get away with it in the slightest sense today,’ said the star.

‘I was on the cover of some magazine and it said, Dumpy, Frumpy and Downright Lumpy,’ Winfrey said of a cruel headline written early in her career.

‘I just accepted that as that’s what it is, and I didn’t feel angry. I felt sad. I felt hurt. I felt shame. But it didn’t occur to me that I could even feel angry.

‘I swallowed the shame, and I accepted that it was my fault.’

She changed the way she looked at the shaming in July during Oprah Daily’s Life You Want series.

‘I had the biggest aha along with many people in that audience,’ she said.

‘I realized I’d been blaming myself all these years for being overweight, and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control.’

She then said: ‘Obesity is a disease. It’s not about willpower — it’s about the brain.’

Winfrey said she studied up on obesity, talked to a doctor and went on meds.

Only after that did she ‘released my own shame about it.’

‘I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing’ she said.

‘The fact that there’s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for.

‘I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself.’

The comes after Winfrey said she would not take Ozempic and similar drugs in the class of weight-loss medications because she viewed them as an ‘easy way out’ during a discussion with WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani.