Oprah Winfrey, 70, shows off VERY trim frame after admitting Ozempic use to shed 40lbs as she steps out in NYC

Oprah Winfrey looked slimmer than ever as she hit the streets of New York on Tuesday, months after admitting to using diet pills.

The 70-year-old radio icon showed off her tiny waist, slim arms and toned curves in a purple sweater and belted brown pants as she arrived on Good Morning America.

The glamorous star added height to her look by wearing brown heels and wore her locks in soft waves.

Oprah completed the stylish ensemble with a chic pair of sunglasses as she enthusiastically waved her latest book club pick, Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, and greeted her fans.

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

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

The admission comes after Winfrey 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 now use it when I feel the need, as a tool to help me avoid going back and forth from one moment to the next’ – but she did not name which drug she uses.

‘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 realized that I had been blaming myself for my weight all these years, and that I have a tendency that I cannot control with any amount of willpower. 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 been “back and forth my whole life,” later said: ‘This is a world that has shamed people for being overweight for centuries 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.

When asked what she did last week to get results, she said: Entertainment tonight: ‘It’s not one thing, it’s everything. I want to keep 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.