Anna Wintour Told Oprah To “Drop 20 Pounds”
May 19th, 2009
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has revealed that she once asked Oprah Winfrey to drop 20 pounds, for a cover photo shoot with the fashion magazine back in 1998.
Wintour told 60 Minutes that she “suggested” that the talk show host lose 20 pounds in 1998, prior to shooting a cover pictorial for Vogue.
“It was a very gentle suggestion,” Wintour says.
“I went to Chicago to visit Oprah, and I suggested that it might be an idea that she lose a little bit of weight. I said simply that you might feel more comfortable. She was a trooper!”
Winfrey, now 55, went on to lose the weight, and featured on the cover with the headline: “Oprah! A Major Movie, An Amazing Makeover.”
Wintour says, “She totally welcomed the idea, and she went on a very stringent diet. And it was one of our most successful covers ever.”
