Oprah Winfrey shows off CINCHED waist amid Ozempic journey at Bezos wedding
Oprah Winfrey flaunted her toned curves at the wedding of the year on Friday.
The media mogul, 71, was one of the many A-list guests at the wedding of billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in Venice, Italy.
The former talk show host, who has been open about using Ozempic to help her lose and maintain her shapely form, was a vision in a fitted dusty pink gown, which featured her cinched waist.
Structural draping helped accentuate Winfrey's hour glass shape, while the frothy chiffon sleeves and skirt added a soft touch to the designer frock.
The Emmy winner wore her shoulder length dark hair in a half-ponytail, and accessorized with dangling diamond earrings.
She was seen waving to fans as she prepared to board a gondola to take her and other guests from the Gritti Palace hotel to the ceremony at the San Giorgio Maggiore Basilica.
Winfrey seemed to be the plus-one of her best friend Gayle King, 70.
The CBS Morning anchor got to know both Sanchez and Bezos when she was part of the all-female Blue Origin crew, which blasted into space in April.
King looked elegant in a flowing one-shoulder reddish-orange gown with a flowing A-line skirt.
Other guests included: Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady, Bill Gates, Diane von Furstenberg, Usher, President Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner.
When Winfrey kicked off her new podcast in December 2024, one of the first topics she tackled was her use of Ozempic and why she felt it was such an important tool in weight loss.
The Oprah Winfrey Show star has publicly battled her weight for years.
The drugs mimic the hormone GLP-1, which the body releases after eating, helping people feel full and slowing stomach emptying.
'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,' she told the audience.
Structural draping helped accentuate Winfrey's hour glass shape, while the frothy chiffon sleeves and skirt added a soft touch to the designer frock
'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."'
Although hesitant to 'take the easy way out,' she finally began taking the drug in 2023, and lost 50 pounds.
The 1619 Project producer said she came to realize that obesity is a disease, like alcoholism.
Winfrey said she has come to realize that taking the medication for the disease of obesity is not the easy way out and that weight gain 'is a symptom of' obesity.
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