Gayle King made a stunning appearance at the Golden Globes on Sunday, showcasing her newly toned figure in a daring, body-hugging gown.
The 71-year-old CBS Mornings anchor has been open about her journey towards health and fitness, often sharing her weight loss experiences with the public.
Recently, King has been seen flaunting her svelte silhouette at numerous high-profile events, which has led to speculation about her potential use of the popular weight loss medication, Ozempic.
Here, we delve into King’s approach to diet and exercise, exploring the strategies behind her transformation.
Back in March 2020, King revealed that working out isn’t her favorite activity, but she does hit the gym when she can.
“I try to find ways to incorporate some exercise,” she shared with ELLE at the time.
‘I’ve been reading this book about the joy of movement, and I do think there’s something to that.’
King added: ‘I’m not saying I like working out. I’m just saying I do it. I do the treadmill, I do the elliptical and I do weights. But I’m not going to sit here and say, “Oh, my god, I love it.”‘
Gayle King continued to flaunt her slimmed down physique as she hit the Golden Globes red carpet on Sunday in a plunging figure-hugging gown
The CBS Mornings host (seen at the Golden Globes), 71, has long been candid about her weight loss and fitness journey throughout her career and has documented her transformation
The journalist, who became a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model at 69 last year, previously shared that she works out for an hour five to six days a week.
More recently, King has been seen keeping active.
At the end of June, King, along with best friend Oprah Winfrey, was controversially in attendance at the lavish Venice wedding of Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos and new wife Lauren Sanchez.
During her stay in the Italian city, King was seen out and about in athleisure after a workout with Oprah.
They were both photographed bumping into Orlando Bloom during their exercise routine, who chatted with the pair before continuing on his run.
Days later, King uploaded a snap of her and Oprah on a hike during their vacation with Kris Jenner in Mallorca, Spain.
21 years ago, King declared that she does not deny herself anything when it comes to her diet.
‘Some people don’t eat pasta or bread or sweets ever,’ she said. ‘I love those foods too much.
In recent months, King has displayed her slim frame at a series of high-profile events, sparking a slew of rumors that she’s been using Ozempic (pictured June 8 at the Tonys)
She previously declared that she does not deny herself anything when it comes to her diet. Pictured: In 2021 (left) and 2025 (right)
The TV host has admitted that she doesn’t enjoy working out, but when she does, she hits the machines in the gym (pictured at the F1 World Premiere in June 2025)
‘So, for the most part, I eat healthy, but if I go to a party or on vacation, I’m going to enjoy it, then I work extra hard to get back to where I was.
‘Extra hard might mean going a few days without bread or dessert, or bumping up her exercise to two sessions a day.’
Speaking to Oprah.com, she continued: ‘I’ve learned that when you gain weight quickly, you can lose it quickly.’
In 2016, King shed almost 30 pounds. Speaking to E News following her transformation, she confessed: ‘I feel really good. I know there’s more work to do but I feel really good.’
And in 2020, King, then aged 65, revealed she completed a five-day soup fast to try and squeeze into the dress she wanted to wear while covering the election after gaining 13 pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The day before the 2020 presidential election, she shared side-by-side photos of herself standing on the scale before and after the diet.
While King never stated what soup fast she followed, it clearly worked. According to the scales, she dropped a total of seven pounds in just five days on the restrictive meal plan.
The journalist previously opened up about gaining around 13 pounds during quarantine in a post shared on Instagram.
In October 2020, she said: ‘CRISIS! The weight struggle is real! Fatter than I’ve been in long time and scared to get a pedicure (big sigh).’
In progressive snapshots of her standing on a weighing scale, King revealed her weight crept up from 159.2 pounds to 172.2 pounds during the global crisis.
The CBS This Morning anchor shared photos of herself on the scale before and after the soup fast, sharing that she lost a total of seven pounds in five days
King uploaded a snap of her and Oprah on a hike during their vacation in Mallorca, Spain, earlier this year
King has not ever discussed using weight loss jabs, however in December 2023, her best friend Oprah admitted to using medication for her dramatic body transformation – after previously denying she would ever take Ozempic or similar drugs to lose weight.
Talk show host Oprah – who once topped the scales at 237lbs in 1992 – reached her 160lb goal weight that same year.
Earlier this year in January, she expressed that taking weight-loss drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, helped her realize the truth about ‘thin people.’
‘One of the things that I realized the very first time I took a GLP-1 was that all these years I thought that thin people had more willpower,’ she confessed while discussing the function and safety of these types of drugs with Dr. Ania Jastreboff.
‘They ate better foods. They were able to stick to it longer. They never had a potato chip.’
But once she started on a GLP-1, Oprah realized that what she initially perceived as ‘willpower’ was actually an absence of intrusive hunger thoughts — often referred to as ‘food noise.’
