Oprah Winfrey looks ‘unrecognizable’ at Paris Fashion Week
Fans begged Oprah Winfrey to go easy on GLP-1s after the media titan showed up at Paris Fashion Week looking so polished she was ‘unrecognizable’. RadarOnline.com can reveal.
When the video of her arrival went viral, the nickname “Ozempic Oprah” gained traction after the former talk show host, 72, lost about 50 pounds while taking a weight-loss drug.
Winfrey wore straight-leg jeans and a peach-colored blouse with a ruffled front, tucked in at the waist. She completed the look with a tan cape-style cropped suede jacket.
The author of Build the life you want had her hair pulled back into a sleek, low ponytail and donned a pair of cat-eye sunglasses as she attended the Chloe show in Paris on March 5.
Winfrey was joined at the event by her constant companion and best friend, Gayle King. The 71-year-old is close to signing a new deal with CBS, which will see her remain the host of CBS mornings for the ‘foreseeable future’.
Fans were divided over Winfrey’s seemingly continued weight loss, as some suggested she looked unrecognizable.
“Easy does it on the Ozempic,” said one person TikTok scoffed, as a second claimed: “That doesn’t look like Oprah.”
However, one sympathetic fan cheered: “Only people who have struggled with weight for most of their lives will truly understand the joy and happiness this woman finally experiences. If you’ve never been able to feel great in outfits, especially a cropped outfit, then you just don’t understand. Gooooooooo head on Lady O!”
After denying that she had sought the help of a shot following a noticeable weight loss in 2023, Winfrey finally admitted in December of that year that she had used an undisclosed GLP-1.
“The fact that there is a medically approved prescription to maintain weight and stay healthier in my lifetime feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and be ridiculed for again. I am absolutely done with shaming other people and especially myself,” she says. proclaimed at the time.
Winfrey credited the medication with suppressing the constant “food noise” that was always in her head.
“All those years I thought thin people just had more willpower, ate better food, could last longer and never ate a potato chip,” she admitted in January.
“And then I realized the very first time I took the GLP-1 that… oh, they don’t even think about it. They only eat when they’re hungry, and they stop when they’re full,” Winfrey said of her a-ha moment.
The Enough: your health, your weight and what it’s like to be free The author revealed in December 2025 that the medication also killed her cravings for alcohol.
“I could outdrink everyone at the table,” she confessed, adding that her tolerance was so great that she once drank “17 shots” of tequila in one night.
“I haven’t had a drink in years. The fact that I don’t even crave it anymore is pretty amazing,” Winfrey noted of her booze-free life.
