I wouldn’t go to Don Johnson’s birthday party because I thought I was ‘too heavy’.

Oprah Winfrey admitted that she once skipped Don Johnson’s Christmas birthday celebration because she thought he was “too fat.”

During Tuesday’s episode of the “Jamie Kern Lima” podcast, the media magnate got candid about his biggest weight loss program errors, including losing 67 pounds on a liquid diet in 1988 and briefly gaining it back. also includes.

“While losing weight on OptiFast I didn’t eat a single bite of food for five solid months,” he said of the load control product, which replaces meals with shakes.

Winfrey, 70, revealed on an episode of the “Oprah Winfrey Show” in November 1988 how much weight she had lost while driving in a heavy-duty wagon.

“Three days later, I was 5 pounds heavier, and a week later I was 10 pounds heavier,” she recalled.

During the decade of that life, the TV personality was so horrified by her rapidly increasing weight that she began avoiding invitations to A-list events.

“A week before Christmas, I remember Don Johnson – Don Johnson of ‘Miami Vice’ – was having a party and he invited me and some of the guys from my show to come, and I wouldn’t go because I felt That I will do the same.” Fat to go,” Winfrey said.

She continued, “I weighed 145 (pounds) the day of the show. I think I got to 157 (pounds) in a week and a half or two weeks. And the embarrassment started again.

During the “Color Purple” superstar’s decades-long weight loss campaign, she faced “hurtful” messages about her body symbol, including a 1987 photo of her in a “beautiful black dress” on the front of a book. It was printed. With the title “Drumpy, Frumpy and Absolutely Lumpy.”

She also reflected on the era when an embarrassing skit about her was performed on the 1990 comedy show “In Living Color” featuring Kim Wayans.

Winfrey said, “‘In Living Color’ did a skit where the woman was doing something, and she just kept eating and getting fatter, and fatter, and fatter, and part of the comedy was that eventually she exploded, ” Winfrey said, remembering the entire target audience. Laughed at the matter.

In that era, critics who poked fun at the Mississippi native were “accepted”, a pain that stayed with him for years.

“For 25 years, there was always a newspaper story or some exploitation of my weight,” he claimed. “Making fun of my weight was a national sport.”

On the other hand, as Winfrey recently turned 70, she has stopped weight-shaming herself over the last decade of her life.

“I was judgmental because I was judged a lot,” she said. “I don’t really know anyone whose weight has been more publicly judged than me, and I’ve experienced other people’s embarrassment. You have endured.”

In current life, Winfrey has come under fire as she admitted to using a weight-loss drug, even though she did not know whether it was the celebrity-favorite Ozempic.

“The fact that I have a medically approved prescription for managing weight and being healthy in my lifetime feels like a relief, like a redemption, like a gift, and it’s so important,” she advised Community in December. There’s nothing to hide behind and nothing to scoff at once again.” ,

In May, the actress had also apologized for promoting unique weight loss methods for the past 25 years.