No, Orpah (“Oprah”) Gail Winfrey, 66, hasn’t died yet - although she clearly meets many of the risk factors for becoming a victim of the coronavirus, which in addition to her age includes her race, and like 82.1% of all adult Black women, Winfrey has been morbidly overweight or obese her entire adult life.
Winfrey's obesity mirrors the perpetual poor state of health for the overwhelming majority of Black women, which establishes Black women at a much greater risk to fall victim to COVID-19 and other severe illnesses.
Unfortunately, Winfrey has not used her popularity or leadership to consistently shine as a positive example of successful weight loss and health maintenance. Instead, when it comes to weight, the perpetually portly Winfrey continues to increase her weight just as she continues to increase her ownership of Weight Watchers (WW) with the option of increasing her ownership stake by another 3.3 million shares, which would bring her stake up to 12.3%.
Despite Winfrey’s perpetual battle with low self-esteem, her mistrust of men from being sexually molested as a teenager, her personal dislike of marriage, and her flip-flop dieting and chronic obesity, nevertheless, in the wake of her death “the show business world” will likely pay great tribute to Winfrey.
More than any other racial or ethnic group, morbidly overweight and obese Black women, like Winfrey and her overweight friend Gayle King, co-host of CBS-TV Morning News, and obese Black men like Cedric the Entertainer, Lavell Crawford, etc., and millions of Black people with diabetes, hypertension, and other illinesses exist at a much greater risk to fall victim to COVID-19 and other severe illnesses.
Oprah is not dead!
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In the event of her death, Winfrey, will forever be known to millions of people around the world as a successful media personality and businesswoman, who monetized her name via her magazine "O," and via her namesake company, "Harpo," which is her first name spelled in reverse. Perhaps, more importantly, Winfrey will be remembered as yet another stereotypical Aunt Jemima-ish morbidly overweight or obese Black woman like Madame C.J. Walker, Hattie McDaniel, etc., who became one of the most popular, influential, and successful broadcast television personalities of the 20th century.
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