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Oprah and the Daytime Diet Wars

S1 · E2 · 29 Sep 2024 · 43 min

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In 1988, Oprah walked on stage in slim size 10 jeans, wheeling 67 pounds of animal fat in a red wagon. The stunt highlighted her weight loss, but also shed light on America's obsession with fatness, showing that diet culture spares no one.