Anna Wintour once told Oprah Winfrey to lose weight
By ANITuesday, May 19, 2009
WASHINGTON - Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour once told media mogul Oprah Winfrey to lose weight before posing on the cover of 1998’s Vogue issue.
The classy Editor-in-Chief revealed in an interview that Oprah was asked to lose weight for the 1998 vogue cover, which featured the media mogul with a tagline “Oprah! A Major Movie, An Amazing Makeover.”
“It was a very gentle suggestion. I went to Chicago to visit Oprah, and I suggested that it might be an idea that she lose a little bit of weight,” US Weekly quoted Wintour as saying.
“I said simply that you might feel more comfortable. She was a trooper!” Wintour added.
Oprah welcomed Wintour’s idea and the cover was a major hit
“She totally welcomed the idea, and she went on a very stringent diet. And it was one of our most successful covers ever,” Wintour added. (ANI)
