Oprah Winfrey, 70, flaunts slim figure in denim jumpsuit in LA after admitting to losing 40lbs on Ozempic

Oprah Winfrey exuded confidence as she arrived at the taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live! at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

The legendary 70-year-old talk show host showed off her slim figure in a stylish denim jumpsuit after admitting she used Ozempic to lose 40 pounds.

She left a few buttons of her jumpsuit open to reveal her smooth décolletage and accentuated her waist with a matching denim belt.

Oprah, who recently attended a premiere in LA, carried a gray leather bag and gave her outfit a sporty twist by adding white lace-up shoes.

She wore her shiny brown hair in loose curls and her makeup looked flawless.

She wore matching silver earrings and designer sunglasses.

The billionaire was escorted to the back entrance of the theater by a large security team.

Before entering through the stage doors, she waved friendly to the fans waiting in the wings.

Although Oprah initially denied using diet pills, in December 2023 she finally announced that she had lost over 40 pounds using diet pills, saying she was “done with all the whining.”

She lost the weight by taking medications and exercising, including walking.

The confession came after Oprah said during a conversation with Weight Watchers CEO Sima Sistani that she wouldn’t take Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs because she saw them as an “easy way out.”

She told PEOPLE, “I use it now when I need it, as a tool to keep me from moving around in a moment” — but she didn’t name which drug she’s using.

‘The fact that there is a medically approved recipe in my life for managing weight and staying healthier feels like a relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something I have to hide behind and be laughed at for all over again.

“I’m so done with other people, especially me, making fun of me,” she said, adding that she had recommended the diet drug to others before deciding to try it herself.

The star revealed that she had taken the medication before Thanksgiving because she knew she would be “eating non-stop for two weeks.” She said she only gained a quarter of a pound instead of nine, adding that it “blurted the noise of eating.”

Winfrey said she is now only seven pounds shy of her goal weight of 160 pounds, but also said that “it’s not about the number.”

Oprah previously revealed that at her heaviest she weighed 237 pounds (107.5 kg).

She said the knee surgery she underwent in 2021 marked the beginning of a journey for her to improve her health and live a “more vital and vibrant life.”

According to the presenter, she now eats her last meal at 4pm, drinks a litre of water every day and uses Weight Watchers principles to count points. She also goes for regular walks.

She added that her fitness and health routines are integral to maintaining her weight loss, saying, “It’s everything. I know everyone thought I did it, but I’ve worked so damn hard. I know if I’m not also working out and being vigilant about all the other things, it’s not going to work for me.”

She said, ‘I had a sense of [weight-loss] medication, but I felt I had to prove I had the willpower to do it. Now I don’t feel that way anymore.’

Winfrey said she was encouraged to use medical weight-loss drugs after a recorded panel discussion in July with weight-loss experts and clinicians — which led to her “biggest aha moment.” The discussion was published online in September, and Winfrey has vehemently denied ever using weight-loss drugs.

She said: ‘I realised that I had been blaming myself for my weight all these years, and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower can control. Obesity is a disease. It’s not about willpower – it’s about the brain.

During the discussion, the experts stressed that obesity is a metabolic disease in which some bodies are “more likely to store more fat” – also known as adipose tissue.

Oprah candidly explained, “For those of us who store fat, it doesn’t matter how many times… You’ve all seen me diet and diet and diet and diet, it’s a recurring thing because my body always wants to get back to a certain weight.”

She added: ‘If I ate an apple pie at 11 at night, I would be two pounds heavier in the morning. I can’t eat after a certain time.’

The TV personality, who claimed she had “yo-yoed my whole life,” later said: “This is a world that has forever shamed people for being overweight and all of us who have lived through it know that people just treat you differently. They just do.”

“And I’m Oprah Winfrey and I know all that comes with that. I get treated differently if I weigh over 200 pounds than if I weigh under 200 pounds…

“There’s a condescension. There’s a stigma.”

According to Oprah, it is important to have friends and partners around you who support you and ‘cheer for your victory’.

After a more in-depth discussion about currently available weight loss drugs – including Ozempic and Wegovy – the media mogul said: ‘Shouldn’t we just be more accepting of whatever body you choose? That should be your choice.

‘One of the things I was so ashamed of, and even when I first heard about the diet pills, I was having knee surgery, I thought, “I have to do this myself because if I take the drugs, that’s the easy way out.”

“There’s a part of me that feels — and I think a lot of people feel this way about bariatric surgery — that I have to do it the hard way, that I have to keep climbing the mountains, that I have to keep suffering and that I have to do that, because otherwise I’m fooling myself somehow.”

She concluded: ‘As someone who has been disgraced for so many years [about my weight]I’m just fed up with it.’

The star said that after the conversation, she let go of her “own shame” and consulted her doctor, who prescribed her the weight loss medication.

Asked what she did last week to get results, she told Entertainment Tonight: “It’s not one thing, it’s everything. I plan on keeping it that way.”

Earlier this year, she released the TV documentary An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution, in which she criticizes people who shame people who use diet pills.