Rachel Martin
👤 Speaker
1952
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It was your first interview on The Tonight Show.
Joan Rivers sat in as the guest host.
And she said on national TV that you needed to lose 15 pounds and you needed to do it now and you couldn't come back to the show until you did.
To just affirming what you already believed about yourself.
This was tied to your public identity, though, from the beginning.
You know, you said, I'm Oprah Winfrey, this is the Oprah Winfrey Show, and you introduced this segment by talking about how your thighs were always problematic to you.
That clearly had been a choice, though.
You've been open about regrets around what you saw as your promulgation of...
There was a big body positivity movement.
What's the number one thing you want people to take away from this?