Queen Latifah Shares How Oprah Inspired Her Positive Body Image

Queen Latifah may seem like her confidence never breaks, but the star recently revealed a private struggle with her body image—and that none other than Oprah helped her push through. She spoke on the subject during the Cannes Lions Festival, at a panel that touched on how obesity relates to the media.

Latifah shared insights into her own relationship with weight, saying, “I watched this idea of what beauty was supposed to be—size two, blue-eyed—that was being pushed on everyone as I was growing up. I thought that was a bar I was never going to meet.”

Movies and television series were undeniably dominated by that specific beauty standard. But Latifah pointed out one beacon of light that helped her see beyond that narrow image of what bodies should be: Oprah. Oprah’s long-standing candor on weight has been a source of inspiration for Latifah—throughout the years of The Oprah Winfrey Show and in O, The Oprah Magazine, continuing today at Oprah Daily in our “The Life You Want” Classes.

Queen Latifah may seem like her confidence never breaks, but the star recently revealed a private struggle with her body image—and that none other than Oprah helped her push through. She spoke on the subject during the Cannes Lions Festival, at a panel that touched on how obesity relates to the media.

Latifah shared insights into her own relationship with weight, saying, “I watched this idea of what beauty was supposed to be—size two, blue-eyed—that was being pushed on everyone as I was growing up. I thought that was a bar I was never going to meet.”

Movies and television series were undeniably dominated by that specific beauty standard. But Latifah pointed out one beacon of light that helped her see beyond that narrow image of what bodies should be: Oprah. Oprah’s long-standing candor on weight has been a source of inspiration for Latifah—throughout the years of The Oprah Winfrey Show and in O, The Oprah Magazine, continuing today at Oprah Daily in our “The Life You Want” Classes.

Queen Latifah may seem like her confidence never breaks, but the star recently revealed a private struggle with her body image—and that none other than Oprah helped her push through. She spoke on the subject during the Cannes Lions Festival, at a panel that touched on how obesity relates to the media.

Latifah shared insights into her own relationship with weight, saying, “I watched this idea of what beauty was supposed to be—size two, blue-eyed—that was being pushed on everyone as I was growing up. I thought that was a bar I was never going to meet.”

Movies and television series were undeniably dominated by that specific beauty standard. But Latifah pointed out one beacon of light that helped her see beyond that narrow image of what bodies should be: Oprah. Oprah’s long-standing candor on weight has been a source of inspiration for Latifah—throughout the years of The Oprah Winfrey Show and in O, The Oprah Magazine, continuing today at Oprah Daily in our “The Life You Want” Classes.

Queen Latifah may seem like her confidence never breaks, but the star recently revealed a private struggle with her body image—and that none other than Oprah helped her push through. She spoke on the subject during the Cannes Lions Festival, at a panel that touched on how obesity relates to the media.

Latifah shared insights into her own relationship with weight, saying, “I watched this idea of what beauty was supposed to be—size two, blue-eyed—that was being pushed on everyone as I was growing up. I thought that was a bar I was never going to meet.”

Movies and television series were undeniably dominated by that specific beauty standard. But Latifah pointed out one beacon of light that helped her see beyond that narrow image of what bodies should be: Oprah. Oprah’s long-standing candor on weight has been a source of inspiration for Latifah—throughout the years of The Oprah Winfrey Show and in O, The Oprah Magazine, continuing today at Oprah Daily in our “The Life You Want” Classes.

Queen Latifah may seem like her confidence never breaks, but the star recently revealed a private struggle with her body image—and that none other than Oprah helped her push through. She spoke on the subject during the Cannes Lions Festival, at a panel that touched on how obesity relates to the media.

Latifah shared insights into her own relationship with weight, saying, “I watched this idea of what beauty was supposed to be—size two, blue-eyed—that was being pushed on everyone as I was growing up. I thought that was a bar I was never going to meet.”

Movies and television series were undeniably dominated by that specific beauty standard. But Latifah pointed out one beacon of light that helped her see beyond that narrow image of what bodies should be: Oprah. Oprah’s long-standing candor on weight has been a source of inspiration for Latifah—throughout the years of The Oprah Winfrey Show and in O, The Oprah Magazine, continuing today at Oprah Daily in our “The Life You Want” Classes.

Queen Latifah may seem like her confidence never breaks, but the star recently revealed a private struggle with her body image—and that none other than Oprah helped her push through. She spoke on the subject during the Cannes Lions Festival, at a panel that touched on how obesity relates to the media.

Latifah shared insights into her own relationship with weight, saying, “I watched this idea of what beauty was supposed to be—size two, blue-eyed—that was being pushed on everyone as I was growing up. I thought that was a bar I was never going to meet.”

Movies and television series were undeniably dominated by that specific beauty standard. But Latifah pointed out one beacon of light that helped her see beyond that narrow image of what bodies should be: Oprah. Oprah’s long-standing candor on weight has been a source of inspiration for Latifah—throughout the years of The Oprah Winfrey Show and in O, The Oprah Magazine, continuing today at Oprah Daily in our “The Life You Want” Classes.

Queen Latifah may seem like her confidence never breaks, but the star recently revealed a private struggle with her body image—and that none other than Oprah helped her push through. She spoke on the subject during the Cannes Lions Festival, at a panel that touched on how obesity relates to the media.

Latifah shared insights into her own relationship with weight, saying, “I watched this idea of what beauty was supposed to be—size two, blue-eyed—that was being pushed on everyone as I was growing up. I thought that was a bar I was never going to meet.”

Movies and television series were undeniably dominated by that specific beauty standard. But Latifah pointed out one beacon of light that helped her see beyond that narrow image of what bodies should be: Oprah. Oprah’s long-standing candor on weight has been a source of inspiration for Latifah—throughout the years of The Oprah Winfrey Show and in O, The Oprah Magazine, continuing today at Oprah Daily in our “The Life You Want” Classes.