Oprah Winfrey Reveals the Strangest Thing in Her Refrigerator: ‘The Tentacles and the Head Are There’ (Exclusive)

Oprah Winfrey reveals the slimy, slimy secrets of her kitchen.

In this week’s cover story, Winfrey tells PEOPLE that the weirdest thing in her fridge is actually an octopus.

“Stedman likes it for breakfast,” she says of her longtime partner, Stedman Graham, adding that the mollusk is “regularly whole” in her fridge.

“The hooves and the head are there. He likes it baked [or] braised with okra and greens,” explains Winfrey.

The media mogul does not share the same passion as Graham. She “never” tries it, she says. “He’s the only one who eats it.”

If fans are wondering where to get a whole octopus, A wrinkle in time star tells PEOPLE “you have to go to a special fish market to buy it.”

Oprah and longtime partner Stedman Graham.

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As part of her candid cover story interview with PEOPLE, Winfrey talked about several life milestones, including how it feels to turn 70 next month.

“I will never be done until I take my last breath,” she says. “And whenever that happens, it will be a sigh of relief.”

She also talked about her vision of daily gratitude. Winfrey, who played Sofia in the 1985 Oscar-nominated classic Purpleshe said it changed everything” for her. “It was a spiritual opening for me to see my life in a different way,” she adds.

The musical film adaptation of the original 1985 film and Broadway play based on Alice Walker’s acclaimed novel will premiere on Christmas Day. Steven Spielberg and Winfrey co-produced the film.

Winfrey begins and ends each day with “Thank you,” a cornerstone of the time-honored gratitude practice she recommends for everyone. “If you train yourself to do that, you’ll walk through life feeling abundance instead of scarcity,” she says. “Obviously people are going to say, ‘Yeah, well, that’s easy for you to say, Oprah.’ But I’ve been doing it forever.”

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Also in the interview, Winfrey opened up about how she is no stranger to watching her weight.

“It was a public sport to make fun of me for 25 years,” Winfrey says. “I was guilty and ashamed, and I blamed and shamed myself.”

One painful moment occurred early in her career, when she landed on Mr. Blackwell’s harsh fashion critic’s list. “I was on the cover of a magazine and it said ‘Dumpy, Frumpy and Downright Lumpy,'” she recalls.. “I didn’t feel angry. I felt sad. I felt hurt. I swallowed the shame. I accepted it was my fault.”

Winfrey is optimistic that she now knows how to maintain a healthy weight long-term and get rid of shame once and for all. Using a holistic approach that includes regular exercise and other lifestyle changes, Winfrey confirms that she has also added a weight-loss drug to her regimen.

Oprah Winfrey on the PEOPLE cover shoot.

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The weight changes “took up five decades of space in my brain, yo-yoing and feeling like I just couldn’t beat this thing, believing that willpower was my failure,” says Winfrey, whose dogged rehabilitation after knee surgery in 2021 launched what in for the last two years he has been losing weight steadily.

“After knee surgery, I started walking and setting new distance goals every week. Eventually I could walk three to five miles every day and 10 miles straight on the weekend,” she said. “I felt stronger, fitter and more alive than I had felt in years.”

Now she said, “I eat my last meal at 4 p.m., drink a gallon of water a day, and use the WeightWatcher principles to count the points. I was aware [weight-loss] medication, but I felt I had to prove I had the willpower to do it. Now I don’t feel that way anymore.”

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