Oprah's Weight Watchers Commercial: Money Spinner Or Tear-Jerker?

It is that time of the year again, when resolutions are made and completed, broken off, and a fresh start is created. This is day the dailies is filled with everything from how to low a stone, to how to shed all the fat from Christmas. B-o-r-i-n-g or what? To some, it is also a money spinner... 

“Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be,” Oprah tells us. In other words, your real self (or authentic self, to borrow a phrase Winfrey loves) is some ideal thin version who is trapped, waiting for you to finally get it together to lose the weight. In addition to Winfrey talking to the camera in a sun-dappled clearing, the ad features vintage footage of the icon struggling on a treadmill and jogging miserably in slo-mo. These are her failed attempts at releasing this inner thin person. And failure isn’t my word—it’s hers. “Every time I tried and failed,” she says, “every time I tried again, and every time I tried again, has brought me to this most powerful moment to say, ‘If not now, when?’”

BVs, you would wonder why I posted this journey of Oprah on her weight watch. Some saw this as a tear jerker, because it resonated with them, while some saw this commercial as a money spinner because it just caused Weight Watchers stocks to soar. Read it here. Whatever this advert has done to you, how are you faring with your new years resolution? Don't tell me you are still finishing off  the chocolate and savory food from last year!