Secrets of Gayle King's stunning weight loss transformation as she maneuvers herself into billionaire circles
The CBS Mornings host, 70, who recently vacationed with longtime friend Oprah Winfrey, 71, and Kardashian matriarch Kris, 69, on a yacht in Spain, has been candid about her weight loss and fitness journey throughout her career and has documented her transformations publicly.
While she has attended a series of high-profile events in recent weeks, including Lauren and Jeff's wedding and the controversial Blue Origin flight, Gayle has continuously been displaying her slimmed down figure of late, sparking a slew of rumors that she's been using the popular weight loss jab Ozempic.
Here, Femail takes a closer look into Gayle's diet and exercise routines.
In March 2020, Gayle admitted that she doesn't enjoy working out, but when she does, she hits the machines in the gym.
'I try to figure out a way to get some kind of exercise,' she told ELLE at the time.
'I've been reading this book about the joy of movement, and I do think there's something to that.'
Gayle added: 'I'm not saying I like working out. I'm just saying I do it. I do the treadmill, I do the elliptical and I do weights. But I'm not going to sit here and say, "Oh, my god, I love it."'
The journalist, who became a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model at 69 last year, previously shared that she works out for an hour five to six days a week.
More recently, Gayle has been seen keeping active.
At the end of June, Gayle, along with best friend Oprah, was controversially in attendance at the lavish Venice wedding of Amazon mogul Jeff and new wife Lauren.
During her stay in the Italian city, Gayle was seen out and about in athleisure after a workout with Oprah.
They were both photographed bumping into recently single Orlando Bloom, 48, during their exercise routine, who chatted with the pair before continuing on his run.
Days later, Gayle uploaded a snap of her and Oprah on a hike during their vacation with Kris in Mallorca, Spain.
Twenty-one years ago, Gayle declared that she does not deny herself anything when it comes to her diet.
'Some people don't eat pasta or bread or sweets ever,' she said. 'I love those foods too much.
'So, for the most part, I eat healthy, but if I go to a party or on vacation, I'm going to enjoy it, then I work extra hard to get back to where I was.
'Extra hard might mean going a few days without bread or dessert, or bumping up her exercise to two sessions a day.'
Speaking to Oprah.com, she continued: 'I've learned that when you gain weight quickly, you can lose it quickly.'
In 2016, Gayle shed almost 30 pounds. Speaking to E News following her transformation, she confessed: 'I feel really good. I know there's more work to do but I feel really good.'
In 2020, Gayle, then aged 65, revealed she completed a five-day soup fast to try and squeeze into the dress she wanted to wear while covering the election after gaining 13 pounds during Covid.
The day before the 2020 presidential election, she shared side-by-side photos of herself standing on the scale before and after the diet.
While Gayle never stated what soup fast, she followed, it clearly worked. According to the scales, she dropped a total of seven pounds in just five days on the restrictive meal plan.
The journalist previously opened up about gaining around 13 pounds during quarantine in a post shared on Instagram.
In October 2020, she said: 'CRISIS! The weight struggle is real! Fatter than I've been in long time and scared to get a pedicure (big sigh).'
In progressive snapshots of her standing on a weighing scale, Gayle revealed her weight crept up from 159.2 pounds to 172.2 pounds during the global crisis.
Gayle has not ever discussed using weight loss jabs, however in December 2023, her best friend Oprah admitted to using medication for her dramatic body transformation - after previously denying she would ever take Ozempic or similar drugs to lose weight.
Talk show host Oprah - who once topped the scales at 237lbs in 1992 - reached her 160lb goal weight that same year.
Earlier this year in January, she expressed that taking weight-loss drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, helped her realize the truth about 'thin people.'
'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 had more willpower,' she confessed while discussing the function and safety of these types of drugs with Dr. Ania Jastreboff.
'They ate better foods. They were able to stick to it longer. They never had a potato chip.'
But once she started on a GLP-1, Oprah realized that what she initially perceived as 'willpower' was actually an absence of intrusive hunger thoughts — often referred to as 'food noise.'
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