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I actually went back and took out the weight gain comment. I really love Oprah, and deeply respect her ... but it makes me sad that she seems to have a food addiction that not even all the money or success in the world can shake.

she does look heavier but I'm thinking maybe she's at a stage in life where she doesn't want to obsess about trying to make her body into something it doesn't want to be. Maybe her build is such that this is where her body clock goes. I don't know what she weighs but I'd say probably from a health standpoint she's overweight but not morbidly obese.
She has a lot going for her that's more significant than her appearance.
 
I actually went back and took out the weight gain comment. I really love Oprah, and deeply respect her ... but it makes me sad that she seems to have a food addiction that not even all the money or success in the world can shake.

I do too respect Oprah as I have watched her since she came on the air and she enriched my life in many ways.
If you heard her speak about what she went thru childhood, everything makes sense.
 
I do too respect Oprah as I have watched her since she came on the air and she enriched my life in many ways.
If you heard her speak about what she went thru childhood, everything makes sense.

I have heard her talk about her childhood, and I'm a sensitive crimes prosecutor, so--I get it. It's so sad, yet not really. It's a good message that money/power/success don't keep us from having challenges and struggles or just being human.
 
that store owner looks like she's had way too much plastic surgery

Sales assistant in Swiss racist handbag row denies telling TV host that she could not view item because she couldn't afford it


  • Sale assistant said she feels 'powerless' after the racism accusations
  • Oprah Winfrey claimed assistant refused to show her a handbag because it was 'too expensive'
  • Speaking anonymously, shop worker said claims were 'absurd'
The sales assistant who refused to show U.S. talkshow billionaire Oprah Winfrey a luxury handbag costing nearly £25,000 claims the superstar lied about what happened in the luxury Swiss boutique where she works.
Speaking anonymously to Sunday newspaper SonntagsBlick, the Italian bag lady said she felt 'powerless' and in the grip of a 'cyclone' after Winfrey went on TV in America to claim she had been the victim of racism.
Winfrey was in Switzerland in July when she walked into the Trois Pommes boutique in Zurich looking for a handbag to match the outfit she was going to wear to old friend Tina Turner's wedding.

She claims the sales assistant refused to show her the black crocodile leather bag because - seeing a black woman - she automatically assumed she would not be able to afford it.
Now the saleslady has hit back, stating: 'I wasn't sure what I should present to her when she came in on the afternoon of Saturday July 20 so I showed her some bags from the Jennifer Aniston collection.
'I explained to her the bags came in different sizes and materials, like I always do.

'She looked at a frame behind me. Far above there was the 35,000 Swiss franc crocodile leather bag.

'I simply told her that it was like the one I held in my hand, only much more expensive, and that I could show her similar bags.
'It is absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds. I even asked her if she wanted to look at the bag.

'She looked around the store again but didn't say anything else. Then she went with her companion to the lower floor. My colleague saw them to the door. They were not even in the store for five minutes.'
She emphatically denied ever saying to Winfrey: 'You don't want to see this bag. It is too expensive. You cannot afford it.'

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Speaking anonymously, the assistant at Trois Pommes, in Zurich, Switzerland (pictured) said it is 'absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds'

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Ms Goetz said: 'Everyone wants to sell a crocodile bag. It’s a misunderstanding' and insisted her saleswomen put customers first and try to be 'kind'


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The shop assistant said she only sells a £25,000 handbag a few times a year and said the racist claims are 'absurd'


The saleslady went on: 'This is not true. This is absurd. I would never say something like that to a customer. Really never. Good manners and politeness are the Alpha and the Omega in this business.
'I don't know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl.

'I didn't hurt anyone. I don't know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV.
'If it had all taken place as she claimed, why has she not complained the next day at the wedding of Tina Turner with Trudie Goetz, my boss? She was there also at the Turner wedding as a guest. I don't understand it.
'I spoke to Oprah Winfrey in English. My English is okay but not excellent, unfortunately.

'I didn't know who she was when she came into the store. That wouldn't have made any difference if I had.


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Miss Winfrey said of the encounter: 'I could have had the big blow-up thing and thrown down the black card and all that stuff. But why do that?'


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Shop owner Trudie Goetz holds up the handbag (right) that Winfrey wanted to see

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Girls' weekend: Oprah Winfrey and best friend Gayle King ahead of Tina Turner and Erwin Bach's wedding celebrations in Zurich, Switzerland
Oprah explains how shop owner refused to show her handbag

'We work really hard to greet all the people who come into the store with the same level of respect and treat them all equally.
'If someone asks me whether he or she can see an article, I always present these. Because that person is a potential buyer. And my job is to sell it.

'I'm glad if I can sell an article. It is a reward for me, if I can sell a nice piece. This means that I'm good at my job.'
She has worked in the store for five years, says 50 per cent of the clientele come from abroad and that a bag costing nearly £25,000 is sold 'only a few times a year.'
Asked what she would say to Oprah now she added: 'I would apologize and say it was all a misunderstanding. I surely did not intentionally want to insult Ms. Winfrey. I hope this nightmare ends soon.'

 
Kind of the same thing. Telling someone the article they wish to see is just like the one in your hand, only more expensive is the same as telling them it's too expensive for them to see. Then to add insult, she told her she would show her similar bags.

Exactly! Just show the customer the d*mn bag! You're supposed to sell it, that's your job. Not to dissuade anyone.
 
The chat-show queen and sometime actress stepped out at the Los Angeles premiere of Lee Daniels' The Butler on Monday night - in which she takes on her first major movie role since the 1998 flop Beloved.

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Beloved was great but the material was too intense for commercial success.
As far as the Butler, it is backed up by the man who makes Oscars happen.
I have no doubt it will be successful.
The Oprah/Mariah's revelations left a bad taste in my mouth but hey, it started another convo about race relation and much needed buzz.
 
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oprah-sorry-switzerlands-flap

OPRAH 'SORRY' FOR SWITZERLAND'S FLAP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey says she's "sorry" that a media frenzy emerged after saying she experienced racism during a trip to Switzerland.

"I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I'm really sorry that it got blown up. I purposefully did not mention the name of the store. I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland," Winfrey said Monday night at the Los Angeles premiere of "Lee Daniels: The Butler."

"I was just referencing it as an example of being in a place where people don't expect that you would be able to be there," she continued.

In recent interview with "Entertainment Tonight," Winfrey recalled a clerk at an upscale Zurich boutique refusing to show her a handbag. Winfrey said she was told she could not afford the $38,000 purse.

"I'm in a store and the person doesn't obviously know that I carry the black card and so they make an assessment based upon the way I look and who I am," said Winfrey, who earned $77 million in the year ending in June, according to Forbes magazine.

"I didn't have anything that said 'I have money.' I wasn't wearing a diamond stud. I didn't have a pocketbook. I didn't wear Louboutin shoes. I didn't have anything," said Winfrey on the red carpet. "You should be able to go in a store looking like whatever you look like and say, 'I'd like to see this.' That didn't happen."

Swiss tourism officials and the boutique owner apologized for the incident last week, but Winfrey insists there's no need.

"It's not an indictment against the country or even that store," she continued. "It was just one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag. So no apologies necessary from the country of Switzerland. If somebody makes a mistake in the United States do we apologize in front of the whole country? No!"

"The Butler," which opens Friday, documents the civil rights movement through the story of a butler who served in the White House for seven presidents.

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Oprah Winfrey says she's kinda sorta "sorry" for the fallout that ensued after she told the media about a "racist" encounter at a purse store in Switzerland ... saying, "I'm really sorry that it got blown up."

Yeah, right.

Oprah addressed the media at the premiere of "The Butler" in L.A. last night -- backpeddling after the shop in question started to refute O's allegations of racism during an incident last month.

The shop owner says the whole thing was a "misunderstanding" and had "nothing to do with racism."

Last night, Oprah said ... "I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I'm really sorry that it got blown up. I purposefully did not mention the name of the store. I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland."

Problem is ... O's full of it. What did she think was going to happen when she went on national TV and cried racism? The media was just going to ignore that??

Oprah once ragged on hamburgers and single-handedly CRIPPLED the beef industry. She knew damn well how the media was going to handle the Switzerland situation ... which is why she went to the media in the first place. Her mission was to destroy the shop.

There are some people who are saying Oprah's Swiss encounter wasn't really about race -- Oprah was just mad she wasn't treated like Her Royal O-ness because the shop employee didn't recognize her ... but now, after the employee told the media she's being unfairly attacked, O's feeling a little guilty.

But pretending not to know about the impact of her race allegations?? That's like ***** pretending not to know what's gonna happen if pushes that big red button in the White House.

C'mon O ... you're smarter than that. And so are we.

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She looks good in the pink.
The chat-show queen and sometime actress stepped out at the Los Angeles premiere of Lee Daniels' The Butler on Monday night - in which she takes on her first major movie role since the 1998 flop Beloved.

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I actually went back and took out the weight gain comment. I really love Oprah, and deeply respect her ... but it makes me sad that she seems to have a food addiction that not even all the money or success in the world can shake.

Agree... How often has she yo-yo'd now? And now she's right back where she started, a very big posture :sad:
 
"Her mission was to destroy the shop". Seriously TMZ? She did not even mention the name of the shop. Of course she knew this was going to be big. Rightfully so after the SA assumed she could not afford it and refused to show her the damn bag. Anyone would be insulted by that :bagslap:
 
I actually went back and took out the weight gain comment. I really love Oprah, and deeply respect her ... but it makes me sad that she seems to have a food addiction that not even all the money or success in the world can shake.

Agree... How often has she yo-yo'd now? And now she's right back where she started, a very big posture :sad:




anyone that thinks because she has gobs of money/success will mean she has gobs of happiness is just as wrong as she has been! it does not fix what is going on inside - it just makes it easier for you to do and have other things to cover up that pain. it doesn't magically fix anything. that is why she looses big and then gains again. no matter how much she could do it for others she could not do it for herself!
 
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