Oprah Winfrey "Embarrassed" to Weigh 200 Pounds

In the January issue of  O magazine, Oprah Winfrey confesses that she now weighs 200 pounds. She opens up about her battle with the bulge where she admits to over-eating and not being able to fit in her gown for President-elect Obama's inauguration.
 

"I had a dress on the vision board, but I'm not sure that's gonna fit," Winfrey said. "So I have to work on something else."

“I’m mad at myself, I’m embarrassed," says Lady O, who many people consider an expert and look to for advice in all matters,"I can’t believe that 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?’ ”

Winfrey says she has struggled with an out-of-balance thyroid and the condition made her develop “a fear of working out” and adds that she’s packed on 40 pounds since she weighed 160 pounds in 2006.
 

“I was so frustrated I started eating whatever I wanted - and that’s never good.”
 

“I felt like a fat cow,” Winfrey writes of the occasion when she sought to skip out on a Las Vegas show taping with Cher and Tina Turner. “I wanted to disappear.”