Oprah Winfrey Reveals She Downed 17 Photographs to Win a Drinking Contest

In a principally earnest, insightful and academic dialog about well being, meals noise, GLP-1s and the hazards of not recognizing weight problems as a illness, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King delivered some moments of levity as solely finest associates can do throughout a particular look at 92nd Street Y.

The two appeared at New York’s cultural and group heart Tuesday with King performing as moderator for a dialog that featured Winfrey and Dr. Ania M. Jastreboff discussing their new e book, Enough: Your Health, Your Weight and What It’s Like to Be Free. As King famous on the prime of the hourlong chat, 2026 marks a milestone fiftieth anniversary of assembly as associates in Baltimore, Maryland again in 1976. “We were 21 and 22, now we’re 71 and 71. [Oprah] is turning 72 soon.”

Winfrey, whose birthday is Jan. 29, drew laughs, cheers and gasps when she revealed simply what number of pictures she downed to be able to win a consuming contest in Santa Barbara, not removed from her property in Montecito. The subject of dialog got here up after King recalled being at a Golden Globes celebration final weekend when she requested the bartender for a Shirley Temple. “The person next to me said, ‘Seriously?’ I go, ‘Seriously with extra cherries.’ I just don’t drink but you don’t drink now either.”

Winfrey confirmed that she’s off the sauce though she “used to be a tequila girl.” King then prodded her to quote the variety of pictures she downed in a single sitting. “There’s something in Santa Barbara called the Fiesta festival. People are out in the streets, and you’re drinking and having a good time. That’s the whole point. One night we had a drinking contest and I won with 17 shots,” Winfrey confirmed. While she didn’t title names of who she drank beneath the desk, King did have extra to say: “Don’t applaud that. That’s terrible.”

King praised her finest good friend at different instances throughout the revelatory chat. “This is the most open and honest conversation I’ve ever heard her have about her weight, which, by the way, is nobody’s business,” King stated of Winfrey, who generated numerous headlines when she revealed she turned to GLP-1s to assist with an almost lifelong battle with weight problems.

“The bottom line is this, no amount of fame, wealth, success, attention can substitute for your biology,” Winfrey stated. “I’m here now telling you there is a pill. There are medications. You can opt to use them or not use them. If you don’t use them or don’t want to use them, that’s really fine. But just know that the struggle doesn’t have to be the struggle that you’ve had, and if you are going to choose to lose weight by eating healthily and working out and the weight comes back, understand why it always comes back.”

Winfrey’s film profession got here up when she recalled the promotional cycle for Jonathan Demme’s 1998 movie by which she starred reverse Danny Glover. “I was promoting this movie, Beloved, which y’all did not go to see. One person went to see it in this room,” she stated jokingly. “Anna Wintour wanted to do a cover. I remember just as she was walking out, she goes, ‘You know, you have to lose 20 pounds.’ I said, ‘OK, I’m gonna do it.’ And I felt really great losing that 20 pounds. I’m telling you, when they brought me the first Polaroid of that Vogue cover, I cried. I cried because I thought the very idea that somebody who had suffered so much from all the weight issues would be on the cover of Vogue.”

King stated she nonetheless recalled the quilt line: “A Major Movie, An Amazing Makeover.”