Makeover of the Year: Oprah!

Find out how her red-carpet diet triumphed over a decades-long battle of the bulge

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1986

Back when Winfrey was nominated for a Golden Globe for The Color Purple, it was a different story. She hid her extra weight under fur. At her heaviest, the 5'6 1/2" Winfrey weighed 237 lbs.