Whoopi Goldberg Reveals She Took Weight Loss Drugs After Gaining 300 Pounds While Filming ‘Till’

Whoopi Goldberg, 68, is opening up and honest about her weight struggles following the recent Oprah special , which aired March 18 on ABC. During an appearance on the show, which Goldberg co-hosts, she shared that her weight had ballooned to 300 kilos during her 2021 filming appearance.

“I was taking all these steroids, I was taking all these medications and one of the things that helped me lose weight is Mounjaro… That’s what I use,” the star said. Mounjaro is a comparatively recent injectable antidiabetic drug that also causes weight reduction.

The EGOT winner’s co-host, Sunny Hostin, 55, further admitted that she gained 40 kilos throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. To help with weight reduction, she also used Mounjaro.

“All I did was eat… I love cooking and I discovered that I love eating. I was terrified that I would have to come here. I was,” Hostin admitted. “I also took Mounjaro and I was getting all these nasty emails and stuff. [They said] “You’re too skinny and… you’re taking it away from diabetics.”

She continued: “So when you gain weight, shame comes. I had never experienced shame like this before and that’s what I liked about it [Oprah] They said obesity is a disease, right?”

Hostin added that individuals with diabetes or heart disease don’t have any shame in taking these drugs, but obese people face a number of criticism for turning to them.

“When I gained weight, I found that my cholesterol had gone up to 200, so I started using Mounjaro and now my cholesterol is 140. I feel better, I look better, and that’s what it’s all about,” Hostin concluded.

Goldberg interjected and asked people to stop judging people based on their physical appearance.

“Maybe that is the important thing. Because, listen, when I spotted how much I had placed on myself, because… I all the time felt like myself. And then I saw me and I used to be like, ‘Oh, that is so much,'” she said.

However, she didn’t determine to make use of weight reduction medications because other people might think that she had gained an excessive amount of weight. As you remember, in 2022, the star called out author Kyndall Cunningham, who in a review published by “Nature” accused her of wearing a fat suit within the film attributable to weight gain.

“My weight went up and down but it was never a problem for me because I don’t listen to what other people say about me, so it was never a problem. But I think it’s very difficult for people to just know what a normal weight is,” she said.