Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Oprah is big…and getting bigger.
But this time, her power over politics, literature or Hollywood is not the issue. The Oprah Winfrey Show host is now tipping the scales at 200 pounds, she admits in the January issue of O magazine.
Like any woman who's packed it on, she's "mad at myself" for having "fallen off the wagon."
"I'm embarrassed," she writes. "I can't believe after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I'm still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, 'How did I let this happen again?' "
The chat queen's lowest point...
Winfrey, 54, confesses that shopping for a gown to wear to the presidential inauguration next month was difficult, but she began facing the music of her current image when she was about to tape a show with Tina Turner and Cher, two trim women several years her senior.
"I felt like a fat cow," she writes. "I wanted to disappear."
The talk maven first began to publicly address her weight issues in 1988, when she revealed her new look and a mound of fat representing the 67 lbs. she'd lost. Two years later, she reached a high of 237, and her figure has buoyed ever since.
Winfrey plans to discuss the matter further on her show during "Best Life Week," beginning Jan. 5.