Whoopi Goldberg turned to a controversial drug after weighing nearly 300 pounds. Now, she’s opening up about that experience.
After a recent Oprah Winfrey’s town hall which critics panned as an “infomercial for Ozempic,” the co-hosts of In cash weighed in on controversial luxury weight-loss medications.
Viewers heard them discuss the stigma surrounding weight and very recent weight loss medications. There are some positives and some lost points and some very bad points.
Whoopi Goldberg shared her experience taking one of these medications – no Ozempic – after discovering that he weighed more than he wanted.
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 11 Whoopi Goldberg March 19, 2024 on The View.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0320_whoopigoldberg_01-1024x576.png)
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 12 Whoopi Goldberg March 19, 2024 on The View.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0320_whoopigoldberg_01-1024x576.png)
Whoopi Goldberg caught Mounjaro after he weighed almost 300 pounds
About In cash on Tuesday, March 19, the acclaimed actress shared her own experience with weight gain and loss.
“I’ll tell you, I weighed almost 300 pounds when I did Until, and I had taken all these steroids, I was taking all these things,” Whoopi recalled. “And one of the things that helped me lose weight was Mounjaro – that’s what I use.”
Mounjaro and Zepbound are two brands of Tirzepatide. The medication works differently than semaglutide (like Ozempic), but it is also a diabetes medication that has very It has recently become a luxury weight loss medicine for the rich.
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 13 Whoopi Goldberg speaks directly on The View.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0312_whoopigoldberg_01-1024x576.png)
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 14 Whoopi Goldberg speaks directly on The View.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0312_whoopigoldberg_01-1024x576.png)
“I always felt like myself, and then I saw myself and thought, ‘Oh, that’s so much of me,’” Whoopi remembers noticing her weight gain.
She noticed that her size increased and decreased over the years, but that she ignored external information about her body shape. Intelligent! It seems that this weight loss was for her, and not to meet someone else’s expectations.
“There is nothing wrong (with taking weight loss medication),” Whoopi said. “Things happen, you get to a certain age and everything falls to the ground, you know you just have to pick it up, put it on your back and keep moving.”
Using diabetes medication to lose weight turns out to be one of Oprah’s ‘favorite things’
Whoopi’s comments came in the context of Oprah’s ABC special, in which she discussed the decades of stigma and open cruelty surrounding her weight gains and losses.
Oprah openly admitted using luxury drugs to lose weightalthough she did not specify which.
She is calling the availability of diabetes medications for non-diabetics to use for weight loss a “revolution.” It is clear that enormous pain fueled her feelings on the matter.
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 15 Oprah Winfrey in March 2024.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0320_oprahwinfrey_01-1024x683.jpg)
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 16 Oprah Winfrey in March 2024.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0320_oprahwinfrey_01-1024x683.jpg)
Obviously, there are people who wrongly shame people for medical weight loss because they believe they should be able to do it “naturally.”
This is obviously malarkeyboth because no one “has” to lose weight, and because genetic and biological realities have more control over long-term weight than any diet or exercise regimen.
However, critics are right when they note that we do not yet know the long-term effects of non-diabetic patients taking these injections. Critics are even more right when they point out that documented shortages left diabetic patients unable to access their medications.
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 17 A screenshot of Sunny Hostin on The View.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0305_theview_02_sunnyhostin-1024x576.png)
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Sunny Hostin took the same medication as Whoopi Goldberg
During the same Tuesday episode of In cashSunny Hostin shared that she also took Mounjaro after a 40-pound weight gain.
She said she received angry emails shaming her and accusing her of taking medication from diabetes patients. (It’s unclear why she mentioned this without explaining why she believes she wasn’t doing it or why she thinks it’s okay)
Sunny told Whoopi and the others that she still felt less shame after receiving hate mail than she did before losing weight. This is a more damning indictment of our fatphobic society than anything else.
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 19 Sunny Hostin on The View on March 11, 2024.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0312_sunnyhostin_01-1024x576.png)
![Whoopi Goldberg: I weighed almost 300 pounds until I took Mounjaro! 20 Sunny Hostin on The View on March 11, 2024.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0312_sunnyhostin_01-1024x576.png)
Surprisingly, one of the best opinions on the subject came from Joy Behar – who often puts her foot in her mouth. This time, however, she highlighted that body size preferences are social preferences.
She even posited that perhaps if luxury weight loss drugs make thinness universally obtainable, perhaps society will be more accepting of body shapes. After all, thinness will no longer be a staple of the rich (and genetic lottery winners).
The discussion was generally very unscientific brain about the “obesity epidemic”. Confusing health with body size is a dangerous mindset, especially in a world where people who use Ozempic end up in the hospital.