Whoopi Goldberg is recalling the moment she realized she wanted to lose weight.
“I made (2022 drama 'Till') and a woman thought I was wearing a fat suit,” Goldberg said during a May 13 appearance on "The Kelly Clarkson Show."
"'The movie was good, but that fat suit was terrible,'" Goldberg recalls the woman saying. "And I was indignant, this is not a fat suit this is me," she responded.
The moment was a rude awakening. "I was 300 pounds," Goldberg revealed, so she decided to make a change.
While Goldberg hasn't revealed how much weight she's lost, it was significant enough for a brand to use her likeness in an ad for a weight loss drug she'd never agreed to work with. “I’m giving everybody a heads-up,” Goldberg said during a Feb. 2025 episode of The View, per NBC News. “There is a phony weight loss ad floating around online, on Instagram, that has me [with an] AI mouth saying all kinds of stuff.”
She didn't name the company that used her image, but she urged anyone who's seen the ad not to buy into it. "Because I don’t know what it is, I had nothing to do with it, and I don’t want y’all thinking this is coming from me," she said at the time.
She's not opposed to weight loss drug use, however, in fact, Goldberg revealed she used Mounjaro to help in her weight loss. Ahead, read everything she's shared.
How did Whoopi Goldberg lose weight?
Goldberg has spoken openly about using a weight-loss drug to improve her health.
“I’m doing that wonderful shot that works for folks who need some help and it’s been really good for me,” Goldberg told Clarkson after she commented on how youthful Goldberg looks. “It’s all the weight I’ve lost.”
“I’ve lost almost two people,” the EGOT winner added in reference to the number of pounds she’s shed.
But before the "fat suit" remark, Goldberg said she hadn't thought much about her weight. “You’re living your life and you’re doing what you need to do and that’s the last thing you’re thinking about,” she explained.
Hearing it upset her and prompted her to start asking people if they’d noticed her weight gain. “You say to people, ‘Did I always look like that?,'” Goldberg recalled. “When you realize it, you go ‘Damn,’ and everyone says, ‘Well, I thought you knew.’”
Goldberg previously opened up about taking a weight-loss medication on “The View” in March, after Oprah Winfrey’s special “Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution," which looked at the impact of drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro.
“One of the things that’s helped me drop the weight,” Goldberg said at the time, was Mounjaro. She also spoke about the stigma surrounding weight loss drugs and said the “key is to stop judging everybody.”
“My weight has come and gone, and up and down, but it’s never been an issue for me because I don’t listen to what other people say about me so it has never been a problem," she continued. "But I think it’s very hard for people to just know what a normal weight would be. ... Everyone has something to say but no one said, ‘How you doing?’ Because it involves so many other things.”
“I always felt like me, and then I saw me and thought, ‘Oh, that’s a lot of me,’” Goldberg added. “You have to take responsibility for yourself and see what’s going on with your body.”
Goldberg is one of many celebrities who've said they use Ozempic or another weight loss drug. Clarkson and Winfrey are among them, along with Charles Barkley, Billie Jean King and Jon Gosselin.
