Oprah Winfrey leaves WeightWatchers board as weight loss medications gain popularity

we all want to be healthier but let's just get real we also want to lose weight for nearly a decade Oprah Winfrey and Weight Watchers were an intertwined and lucrative partnership I love bread but this morning that relationship has changed the media Mogul announcing she is leaving the company's board in the aftermath of her decision Weight Watcher shares dropping by more than 20% they've been struggling over the past few years and seeing Oprah extract herself and seeing the stock just tank it really does feel like the end of an era Winfrey now planning to donate her millions in Company stock to the national museum of African-American history and culture in Washington DC are you ready let's do this together the collaboration between Winfrey and Weight Watchers beginning in 2015 after the billionaire bought a 10% stake in the business and sent stock prices soaring with Winfrey crediting the program with helping her to lose weight oh cost 26 lb and I have eaten bread every single day this past December Winfrey revealing she started using a weight loss drug to help manage her weight telling people magazine then the fact that there's a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier in my lifetime feels like relief like Redemption like a gift and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for I'm absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself there has been a cultural shift in terms of how we perceive weight management in part because of the Advent of weight loss medication so it's going to be interesting to see how Weight Watchers could navigate this moving forward