Oprah has proclaimed that she’s going vegan for the next three weeks to do the spiritual body cleanse espoused by some blonde guru from Los Angeles. (I can’t wait ’til I too can be a spiritual advisor exclusively to megarich media moguls. A girl can dream.)
The diet plan involves eliminating alcohol, coffee, sugar, gluten, dairy, meat, and everything else that proves God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Lucky for all of us, Oprah’s blogging about it. You can follow along as she dumps on the doorman the turkey meatloaf her chef made for especially for her. Thanks for nothing, hired help!
But really, how much of a scam is this? For all her talk about forsaking animal products, do you really think Oprah has given up her collection of Christian Louboutin heels she loves during these three weeks as a vegan?
As recently as January, Oprah was all up on the shoe designer’s jock. She even gave away a $700 patent leather pair to an audience member. The last line says it all:
Audience member Laurie is the lucky winner! With a little help from Oprah, Laurie chooses a pair of open-toe Tiger Patent Leather heels. Why did she pick that pair? “Because you’re going to wear them with your basic black dress and they’re gorgeous, right? And jeans,” Laurie says. “And brown and beige and black.”
“Wear them in good health,” Oprah says.
How is giving up coffee and sugar vegan. Kee-riest. *eye roll*
I’m going vegan too Oprah! For the next three weeks, I’m eating nothing but vegans. Man I’m so great.
she isn’t being a hypocrite. she never said she was giving up animal products for the sake of animals. she is cleansing her body. am i the only one who is understanding this?
She actually does say that on her blog, li. Here’s the quote:
Oprah is all about consumerism. Veggie cuisine is the to stay as long as they will sell cookbooks. She should thanks the neat eaters around who DARE eating the carcass of the cow they used for these shoes. Using cow leather while discarding the meat would be wasteful.
‘and everything else that proves God loves us and wants us to be happy.’ I love that! Love your blog. Thanks for finding proof and posting about all of the stuff I suspected in the first place!
Your fan,
Should someone that has a seemingly never ending battle with weight loss be scolding people about gluttony? Isn’t that like a crack head yelling at you because you smoke?
Wait, what spirituality? What does that mean exactly?
I am spirituality evolved, I have evolved to the point where an animal is an animal and if I’m hungry I will eat it. The same goes for plants. And all the crap they cook up in labs and feed to me too. I’ll eat it all. In moderation.
I have to agree that she is doing this to see what effect it has on HER, not to save the animals. It’s another egocentric move, not an ethical or environmental one.
oprah winfrey is the ultimate example of ego driven indulgence gone berserk. What a horrible testament to our society that she has so many “admirers.” (That’s a big O to all you little people out in internet land)
Oprahaaa Tells you what to eat what to wear what to buy what to read what to believe what to say how to act how to look be yourself who to trust how to vote what to think what to do when to eat when to clap when to laugh when to cry when to give how to be individual enslave yourself make her rich be special enlightned progressive vote for change be one of her legions get free tickets be the audience win the 800 dollar shoes
I am not a fan of Oprah, but I am on her corner on this one. This article was poorly written. Obviously by a hater.
What is the deal with the shoes? Isn’t it recently that she announced that she was going vegan? Didn’t the shoes/Louboutins happen before that? WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL??? And please anyone, show me where she said she was doing this for the animals. Oprah has never really been a tree hugger. She announced she was doing this as a master cleanse, for her own body.
Quit wasting people’s time, Holly.
Just to make it easier to digest my point, SoSo, I’ll repost what Oprah herself wrote on her blog:
So one month, it’s a celebration of high-end leather goods, and just a few months later, it’s condemning the use of animals for gluttonous purposes. Oprah has so many bandwagons it’s not that hard to catch her falling off one.
Interesting. It appears that she only got to Tuesday of week 1 on her blog. Does this mean she couldn’t hack it, got too lazy to continue, or pronounced the publicity stunt failed and gave up?
If you read the whole thing in context, she is discussing eating consciously and what the author of the book says. Oprah is pretty upfront that she is doing this because she is trying to learn a new way of being. She has also, in the past, been pretty up front that, while she likes being altruistic, she also loves 1,000,000 thread count sheets and fancy things that she can afford because she is Oprah. Not that Oprah doesn’t annoy me with her sanctimonious crap but it seems her intentions are being misconstrued.
“I thought it meant not allowing yourself to eat emotionally and filling the void of anxiety with food, as I’ve struggled with for years. I thought it meant taking your time, making healthy choices and chewing slowly—being conscious of every bite and not scarfing down a meal and then thinking about the next one.
That is one level of consciousness. But what she (this is Kathy Freston, the author) talks about in her book is a higher level. She speaks of “spiritual integrity.” How can you say you’re trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?
So this 21-day cleanse gives me a chance to think about it differently and see what my attachments are to certain kinds of foods—and what I’m willing to do to change.
Don’t know if I’m going to feel better or worse, but I’m willing to try to see if my body at least feels differently.”
In other words, this is more about Oprah’s dysfunctional relationship with food, something that millions of other women struggle with. So, they identify with Oprah regardless of the fact that she can buy and sell their asses over and over and over again.
Ben Franklin beat you to the draw. Over 200 years ago he said, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” And anyway, I don’t give a rat’s tookis what Oprah eats or doesn’t eat.