Oprah Winfrey recalls Joan Rivers body-shaming her on TV: ‘Why are you so fat?’
nypost.comguest star on “The Jamie Kern Lime Show” podcast, Winfrey, 70, told Lime that she appeared on “The Tonight Show” in 1985 to discuss her successful TV show, “A.M.
Chicago,” but instead the conversation shifted towards her body size.“Joan Rivers turned to me and she says ‘Tell me, why are you so fat?'” the former broadcast journalist told Lime, the founder of IT Cosmetics.Winfrey replied: “Oh, I just love potato chips Joan.”Rivers, who died in 2014 due to brain damage from lack of oxygen, told the former TV host “shame on you.”She added to Winfrey: “I’ll let you come back if you lose 15 lbs.
You need to lose 15 lbs.’”Winfrey emphasized that this was “On national television. And I don’t know what to do with that.”During the interview with Lime, Winfrey said she had agreed with Rivers.“And I accept it.
I accept that I should be shamed, because how dare me, be sitting up here on ‘The Tonight Show,'” she went on.Winfrey said that she and the late “Fashion Police” host “agreed that I was gonna go away and lose 15 lbs.
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