Oprah Winfrey looked amazing as she attended the third Annual Academy Museum Gala at the at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Winfrey, 69, wore a long-sleeved glimmering purple gown by Dolce & Gabbana to the event in Southern California. The TV icon rounded out her glam ensemble with jewelry from Hamilton Jewelers.
The media mogul wore her lustrous locks pulled back and eyeglasses on the chilly evening.
The stalwart television personality took to Instagram with a shot of herself as she prepared to head to the event.
‘It’s a purple kind of night,’ the Kosciusko, Mississippi-born star captioned the shot. ‘Off to the @academymuseum gala with my @thecolorpurple family.’
The media icon, who celebrates her 70th birthday next month, was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Sofia at the 1986 Academy Awards for her work in the film The Color Purple. A remake is headed for theaters Christmas Day, with Oprah and Steven Spielberg producing.
Winfrey sported a svelte figure two months after she commented on the weight loss drug Ozempic, and why she won’t use it.
She opened up on her history of body image, and how she relates to it, in September at a New York City panel for her Oprah Daily’s The Life You Want series.
On the panel, Oprah was joined by multiple experts in the weight loss field, including Weight Watchers CEO Sima Sistani, psychologist Rachel Goldman and obesity specialists Fatima Cody Stanford and Melanie Jay.
‘I don’t know that there is another public person whose weight struggles have been exploited as much as mine,’ Oprah said on the panel, which included conversation about how media should examine weight and obesity related issues.
‘One of the things I carried so much shame for, and even when I first started hearing about the weight loss drugs, at the same time I was going through knee surgery and I felt, “I’ve got to do this on my own because if I take the drug, that’s the easy way out,”‘ she said.
She continued: ‘There’s a part of me that feels – like I think a lot of people feel with bariatric surgery – that I’ve got to do it the hard way, I’ve got to keep climbing the mountains, I’ve got to keep suffering and I’ve got to do that because otherwise I somehow cheated myself.’
Oprah added that she was ‘just sick of’ the notion ‘as a person who has been shamed for so many years’ in regards to body image.
On the panel, Oprah was candid about how she deals with specific physical conditions that have been a hurdle in her weight loss journey.
‘For those of us that are adipose storers, no matter how many times,,’ she said. ‘You’ve all watched me diet and diet and diet and diet, it’s a recurring thing because my body always seems to want to go back to a certain weight.’
She gave the example, ‘If I ate an apple pie at 11 o’clock at night, I would be two pounds heavier in the morning. I can’t eat after a certain time.’
Oprah said that having ‘yoyoed her whole life’ in weight, she is aware of the differences in how she is treated.
‘This is a world that has shamed people for being overweight forever and all of us who have lived it know that people just treat you differently – they just do,’ she said.
She continued: ‘And I am Oprah Winfrey and I know all that comes with that and I get treated differently if I am 200 plus pounds versus under 200 pounds … there is a condescension; there is a stigma.’
Amid a discussion about which weight loss drugs were the best on the market, Oprah said that society needed to recalibrate expectations.
‘Shouldn’t we all just be more accepting of whatever body you choose to be in?’ she said. ‘That should be your choice.’