When did Whoopi start using a cane to walk?

Is she like 400 lbs now? When did that happen? What the HELL is going on?!

she is on leave from the view

The official line is that she is filming a "movie"

So it’s a “fat suit”? That could be problematic.

Is she playing Hattie McDaniel?

She quit smoking several years ago right? Is this just covid weight? I know a lot of people over the last 18 months gained

[quote] I know a lot of people over the last 18 months gained

But 300 pounds?

Is she gong to challenge Queen Elizabeth in a Lesbian cane race?

Barbara Corcoran seems like a bit of a moron.

Whoopi seems kind of spun there.

Eating too many whoopee pies! Bitch needs to get to jumpin rope to get back to her jumping jack flash weight.

She's turning into Orson Welles

This looks like "Jerry Lewis weight gain" to me. In other words, steroids for pain, etc. For the first time, I can't make a snarky joke on DL.

Was she the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Gal in that chick version of Ghostbusters?

The COVID weight is probably putting extra strain on her 65 year old body.

A lot of people packed on the pounds during COVID quarantine. I hung out with a group of people I hadn't seen in a year a few months back and they were hugeeeee. These were guys in their late 20s/early 30s that always had abs! Of course most have gotten back into shape now.

She's ALWAYS been a CUNT! Anyone who has to work with her knows!

She's...zaftig.

Is she fat, fat?

She has been having sciatica pain.

Don't make fun of fat people, they have enough on their plate

I see what you did there, R19.

She was off work for a few days in the last couple of weeks due to sciatica. She back to work now, but she's using a cane to deal with the residual pain from sciatica.

However, blame it all on sciatica, but the woman has gotten as big as a house which doesn't help your walking when you have legitimate sciatica pain. She's friggin huuuuuuuuuge. She's COVID lockdown, stay at home and eat-til-we-burst fat. Whoopi is literally the elephant in the room.

Wow. I don't watch The View, so had no idea she's gained so much weight. I hope she's okay and that she's able to shed some of that. Extra pounds are so hard on older bodies. Joints, everything.

Nobody ever hesitated to make fun of ME. Fucksake, when I got fat SNL did chicken-choking skits about it!

Don’t sugarcoat your weight gain because you’ll eat that too.

She’s been eatin’. Plain and simple. And since fat is celebrated now, she probably figures why not?

Andre Leon Whoopi.

Whoopi Goldberg has been putting on weight for years now. Sometimes she drops the extra pounds, but then they come back and then some.

African-American women on average do tend to put on weight as they age, and overall in general the race tends towards obesity. This is for various reasons ranging from genetic to cultural. This obesity explains also why African-Americans as a group suffer more from diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke

Look at Oprah, over the years she has ballooned, lost weight, ballooned again.... She has finally seemed to have reached a point of keeping a stable weight.

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what a great big fat person.

I can't stand this sanctimonious bitch.

Whoopie has always struck me as someone who doesn't move unless she absolutely has to

If she wasn't able to move much when she had the bulging disk problem earlier this year, she probably gained weight from that. It's pretty common to gain weight after an injury.

If only she had the resources to hire a personal trainer to get her back into health.

She should stop smoking so much pot. That's probably part of the problem.

she looks older than methuselah

Whoopi is someone's great grandmother. You all expect people to stay young forever? Old happens and sometimes it hits hard. The same people discussing Heather Locklear. Some people genetically just get fat when they get old.

These people are in Hollywood so they have access to better weight loss, doctors/nutritionists, trainers and food. But if most of them were commoners they'd be looking as fat and old and most men and women you see in their 50s and 60s.

Black women tend to gain weight when they age. Not saying white women don’t. But not to the extent that black women do.

[quote]Old happens

With any luck!

I grew up with her movies so I will always have a soft spot for her (despite all her dumb comments on The View). She was probably the first famous person I ever recognised, because she did so many childrens movies in the 90s. I actually got to work with her briefly a few years ago while she was recording (it was a few sessions, some for an audiobook I think and some for a voiceover role). She was lovely and charismatic, some people just have a certain gravitas and charm to them. She feels like a character from a novel or something, I think it's in the way she talks and that comforting Cheshire cat smile, plus her sense of humour.

I gather she has never lived a particularly healthy life. I believe she was a pretty heavy drug addict in NYC back in her youth, homeless at certain points, a teen mother, etc. I don't think she ever learned good eating habits, never was introduced to exercise, and even on The View she constantly jokes about how she doesn't want to see anything green on her plate (when she was on Broadway she said her traditional post-show meal was a big bucket of fried chicken from some place in Manhattan). That attitude becomes quite dangerous as you get older, especially now that she's had bouts of pneumonia, sciatica, and other health issues. It gets harder and harder to shed the weight when you go through that - you are fatigued, and the motivation honestly lessens for a lot of people (even though they know it would help). I wish her the best, but in all honesty I don't expect her to get her body together at this point in life. :(

Afro American woman tend to gain weight later in life because of cultural influences- especially in the South. A walking stick is just a natural outgrowth of this. I live in Atlanta and when I'm boarding a plane and they request that anyone needing extra time should board, there is always a herd of fat people, often woman of African descent who hobble up with their sticks and large handbags.

WTF is happening in this thread!?!

^^Is this your first day on the job here, R41?^^

Kristie Alley says hi guys.

If she gains any more, Weight Watchers will get rid of Oprah and hire her as their new spokesperson. I just love that WW stopped being about losing weight. It was a brilliant business decision.

R44 Thank you, I agree!