Obra is stepping away from a very, like hattie mc daniel's sort of like body type rat. A wean touch of a woman with a perceived sexual allure is scarier, more charged, dangerous. When she was fat, when she is with stedman, her body regains its comfortable eloquence. She has been able to be cast in this role of Like, a nurturing, fat black woman that people can rely on. And now that she's thinness, which also makes you kind of more aware of her wealth, it starts to become a threat. This remains one of the biggest, sort ofike touchstones of her show. It's really
Do you have weird feelings about Oprah? So do we, and so does our guest! Kimberly Springer, co-editor of "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture," joins us to talk about the rise of Oprah Winfrey and her infamous "wagon of fat" weight loss episode.
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