Vogue's Anna Wintour Tells Oprah Winfrey to Lose Weight

Us Magazine - May 18, 2009 2:31 PM PDT
Story photo: Vogue's Anna Wintour Tells Oprah Winfrey to Lose WeightDuffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage.com; Steve Granitz/WireImage.comUs Magazine
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour had quite the request for Oprah Winfrey.

Wintour had told the talk show host to drop 20 pounds to be on the cover of the fashion magazine back in 1998, the editor revealed during an unaired segment from her 60 Minutes interview on Sunday.

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"It was a very gentle suggestion," she said, laughing. "I went to Chicago to visit Oprah, and I suggested that it might be an idea that she lose a little bit of weight."

She added: "I said simply that you might feel more comfortable. She was a trooper!"

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Winfrey, 55, must have listened to the fashion legend. She was featured on the cover from more than 10 years ago with the tagline: "Oprah! A Major Movie, An Amazing Makeover."

"She totally welcomed the idea, and she went on a very stringent diet," Wintour said. "And it was one of our most successful covers ever."

In the 60 Minutes interview, Wintour, 59, also defended the use of Photoshop to make people "look their best."

"That's one of the things that makes me rather angry, that I don't understand," she said. "That if you look wonderful, does that make you less important? Less powerful? Less serious?"

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Although Vogue typically only covers stick-thin models within its pages, she said her magazine maintains an awareness of obesity.

"I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses," Wintour said. "There's such an epidemic of obesity in the United States, and for some reason, everybody focuses on anorexia."

Wintour, who commissioned a feature on the topic complete with illustrations, said that it was an important issue.

"We need to spend money time and education on teaching people to eat, exercise and take care of themselves in a healthier way," she said. "It [has gotten people] provoked, which is really the point."

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  • Barrington
    Let be honest people, Oprah is fat, she could lose 20 pounds... http://lose20pounds.biz/
    report abuseposted October 22, 2009 5:43 AM PDT
  • Alfonso
    Ms. Wintour has a point! Science has proven that flat abs is more flattering...
    report abuseposted July 25, 2009 8:17 AM PDT
  • Wirlie
    Oprah is constantly battling her weight. It's no secret . She know she's fat. She does'nt need anyone to tell her that. She is intelligent enough to know that the heavier you are the more health risks you face, especially as you age. I give her a lot of credit for never giving up the fight. Some people would rather go on Zocor than stop eating fat.
    report abuseposted May 30, 2009 5:47 PM PDT
  • Big Rick
    Anna Wintour looks like she is 69 more so than 59. Instead of telling someone who is a bigger star than she ever will be to lose weight, she needs to get a face lift. Damn you're a old %@!*# Anna, breath probably smell like dog %@!*# too with that lice in your hair..
    report abuseposted May 26, 2009 12:51 PM PDT
  • delym
    SOME PEOPLE ARE SO CRITICAL SOME OF U PROBALY IS BIG AS AN ELEPHANT,NO BODY IS THE SAME SIZE,JUST LEAVE THE WOMAN ALONE,I THINK SHE LOOKS NICE.
    report abuseposted May 21, 2009 12:16 PM PDT
  • Pat
    I think Oprah is a very pretty woman no matter what size she is.I think Wintour should put on a few pounds she could use it.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 4:36 PM PDT
  • Avery Colter
    What is tragic, Emmy, is the school of thought Wintour promotes of being obsessed with minutiae, with dictating rarified constructions of the human form as a visual cue of the class divisions which are driving our society to ever more real-world instability.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 3:26 PM PDT
  • Brenda P
    I'm disappointed that Oprah, being the strong and powerful woman she is, didn't use the opportunity to tell Wintour she's fine as she is and to shove the 20 pounds up her butt. No wonder women often feel so bad about themselves.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 11:31 AM PDT
  • evone
    i think that anna and her homies are still being snobs to others about their looks everyone come in all shapes and sizes and they are hot as they are even miss winfrey herself! so learn some manners woman!
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 10:30 AM PDT
  • jojo
    Who cares! Oprah is old and f at.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 10:22 AM PDT
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