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Oprah Winfrey Poses with New Puppy for Her Magazine

Originally posted 05/12/2009 03:45PM

It's a puppy party!

Oprah Winfrey poses with her new rescue puppy, Sadie (top left), and a pack of four-legged friends for the June cover of O, The Oprah Magazine, on newsstands May 19. The shot was taken at the PAWS no-kill Chicago shelter, where Winfrey found Sadie. Themed "The Animals Issue," the June magazine examines the bonds owners share with their animals.

Winfrey knows first-hand about the human-animal bond. A lifelong pet owner, she adopted Sadie after the photo shoot, saying, "Out of all the pups in that picture, Sadie was the one I felt an instant connection with." (The four remaining pooches in the photo were eventually adopted, too.) Days later, she adopted Sadie's brother Ivan, but then tragedy struck: After a few weeks at home, both pups were diagnosed with the deadly parvo virus.

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Elizabeth Edwards Talks about Fragile State of Her Marriage

Originally posted 05/05/2009 10:25AM

Proving the title of her new memoir, Resilience, to be accurate, Elizabeth Edwards sheds some highly personal insights into her life, her health and her husband's infidelity in a TV interview with Oprah Winfrey to air on The Oprah Winfrey Show Thursday. A companion article also appears in the June issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.

Speaking exclusively with Edwards – as well as with her husband, the former presidential candidate, John Edwards – in the couple's 28,000-sq.-ft. home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Winfrey inquires after the state of the couple's marriage. "Is it a day-by-day thing?" asks Winfrey.

"Neither one of us is out the door," replies Elizabeth, according to a partial transcript of the interview provided PEOPLE by Winfrey's Harpo Productions, "so I guess it's day by day, but maybe it's month by month."

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Kirstie Alley Tells Oprah She Wants Michelle Obama's Arms

Originally posted 04/30/2009 06:30AM

Kirstie Alley has a sympathetic ear in Oprah Winfrey when it comes to weight loss – and gain.

In an interview scheduled to air on Thursday's The Oprah Winfrey Show , the former Jenny Craig spokeswoman discusses her recent weight fluctuations – and reveals an unlikely inspiration in her drive to get fit.

"We look around. We see what we want," says Alley, 58. "Don't you look around and see what you want to look like? I'm, like, 'Look, Michelle Obama's guns. I could have those arms,' " she says. "I don't know about the legs."

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Carrie Underwood Grocery Shops in Sweats

Originally posted 04/10/2009 11:55AM

Carrie Underwood just took home the Entertainer of the Year Award at the ACMs, so what's it like for fans to meet her now?

"I think they're disappointed," Underwood says on the April 14 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. "I do my grocery shopping kind of late at night. There's nobody really there. I can probably wash the makeup and I'm in a ponytail, glasses, and my sweatpants at the grocery store, and people won't tell me, 'Are you Carrie Underwood?' They'll say, 'Wow, you look like Carrie Underwood.' Because Carrie Underwood wouldn't be at the Harris Teeter [at] 11:00 o'clock at night in her sweatpants."

The 26-year-old country star joins Kenny Chesney, Darius Rucker and Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles to perform and discuss their lives with Winfrey, dishing about everything from childhood dreams to their love lives.

"It's really strange," Underwood says of dating in Hollywood. "I mean, you're under a microscope, and even if you start – you're getting to know somebody, you just met them – they have you married off next week, you know what I mean? So it's a little difficult and it's a little difficult to know people's intentions."

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