Oprah
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
NPR
4.7 • 990 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Oprah could never just ignore her weight. Everyone else was always talking about it – from tabloids to late-night shows. She talks to Rachel about her weight journey and her new embrace of GLP-1s, the topic of her new book, “Enough,” co-written with Dr. Ania Jastreboff. Oprah also opens up to Rachel about her childhood in Mississippi and the lessons she learned from Maya Angelou and Sidney Poitier.
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| 0:18.3 | Are you good at being alone? |
| 0:20.3 | Ooh, my God. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm a master at it. |
| 0:24.0 | Tell me more. |
| 0:25.0 | That's a card design for me. |
| 0:26.8 | I learned as a child how to be alone and how to be, how to feel full alone, because there |
| 0:33.3 | wasn't anybody, so there's no longing for something else other than what I actually had. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard, the show where cards control the conversation. |
| 0:45.6 | Each week, my guest answers questions about their life. Questions pulled from a deck of cards. |
| 0:50.9 | They're allowed to skip one and to flip one question back on me. My guest today is Oprah Winfrey. |
| 0:57.1 | The reason why I'm so empathetic and have such understanding and curiosity is because, wow, |
| 1:05.6 | that happened to me too. I live through that. These days, everyone is all about intimacy and authenticity. But this is what |
| 1:13.6 | Oprah was all about way back starting in the 1980s. She let her audience in on some of the most |
| 1:18.5 | personal parts of her life. Then it changed media forever. Along the way, she inspired generations of |
| 1:23.3 | young girls to find their own voice, myself included. Oprah's got a new book out that's called Enough, Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like |
| 1:30.4 | to be Free. |
| 1:31.0 | She's written it with Dr. Anya Yastraboff. |
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