“Whoopi Goldberg has alerted fans of a fake weight loss ad using her likeness on Instagram. Goldberg said the ad used artificial intelligence to sell a drug she does not use. “I’m giving everybody a heads up,” Goldberg said during Wednesday morning’s airing of The View. “There is a phony weight loss ad floating around”, — write: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I’m giving everybody a heads up,” Goldberg said during Wednesday morning’s airing of The View. “There is a phony weight loss ad floating around online, on Instagram, that has me [with an] AI mouth saying all kinds of stuff.”
Goldberg told the crowd she doesn’t sell anything “unless I say, ‘Hey it’s me, Whoopi.’ That’s how you know it’s me.”
Though she did not cite which drug was using her likeness, Goldberg noted the ad seemed to have used footage of her on CBS News Sunday Mornings and “melded it.”
“Do not indulge in this, do not look at this,” she continued. “Just get rid of it, because I don’t know what it is. I had nothing to do with it, and I don’t want y’all thinking that this is coming from me.”
Goldberg went on to point out she had already shared information about her weight loss, revealing in March 2024 that she used Mounjaro to lose weight.
“That’s the problem with AI,” Goldberg said. “You don’t know who made it, but I’m telling you, it’s a lot of BS. Do not fall for it.”
Goldberg opened up about her weight loss experience after Oprah Winfrey’s ABC Special Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution, which was a followup to Winfrey’s reveal that she too was using a weight loss drug.
“One of the things that’s helped me drop the weight was the Mounjaro,” Goldberg said at the time. “That’s what I used.”
During a discussion with the rest of her co-hosts, Goldberg advocated for the health benefits of understanding obesity as a medical condition that deserves to be treated. She said, “It’s a matter of how we treat ourselves.”