- During an appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima podcast, Oprah Winfrey says that during her first appearance on The Tonight Show in 1985, then-host Joan Rivers commented on her weight and told her to lose 15 lbs.
- Winfrey said that she agreed to go to a “fat farm” — the term at the time for a health or wellness retreat — and that Rivers’ comments reminded her, “I should be shamed”
- Winfrey said the comments came around the time she feared she’s lost her role in The Color Purple due to her weight
Oprah Winfrey is looking back on her very first appearance on The Tonight Show — and how host Joan Rivers’ comments about her weight made her feel like, “I should be shamed.”
Winfrey — who believed she had just lost a role in The Color Purple due to her weight — shared on The Jamie Kern Lima podcast that she’d appeared on The Tonight Show in 1985 to discuss how her program,
