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"KATIE COURIC: OK, first things first. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s go really deep. You look amazing. You&amp;amp;#8217;ve lost a lot of weight. How did you do it? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I heard about a [detox] our friend Meredith Vieira had done. So I said, &amp;amp;#8220;Give me some information!&amp;amp;#8221; You know, I have minimal interest in food to begin with. KATIE COURIC: Are you human? [Laughs.] You&amp;amp;#8217;ve had weight issues, though. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah, but never because I&amp;amp;#8217;m overeating; it&amp;amp;#8217;s because I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat. KATIE COURIC: Are you still on the plan? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah. I do three shakes a day. And I have my crab, sushi or whatever, including chips. I just don&amp;amp;#8217;t need eight bags. And I make sure I&amp;amp;#8217;m pooping, because that, apparently, is a huge deal. I was never a pooper, either. KATIE COURIC: I read that you picked the name &amp;amp;#8220;Whoopi&amp;amp;#8221; because you had a lot of gas. [Whoopi was born Caryn Elaine Johnson.] WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I worked in a theater in San Diego with the smallest dressing rooms. I was trying to change clothes, and you don&amp;amp;#8217;t have time to be polite. People would say, &amp;amp;#8220;You&amp;amp;#8217;re like a whoopee cushion!&amp;amp;#8221; KATIE COURIC: [Laughs.] Let&amp;amp;#8217;s talk about The View. Of the cast, I think you&amp;amp;#8217;re the most chill. Is that accurate? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I&amp;amp;#8217;m pretty chill, because life&amp;amp;#8217;s too short to be anything but. On The View, I decided that no matter what, I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t going to lose it. I grew up in a house where we had spirited discussions, even heated, but at the end of the day, you&amp;amp;#8217;re still family. KATIE COURIC: Do any of your cohosts drive you crazy? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: [Laughs.] Nooo. KATIE COURIC: If you held hands and sang &amp;amp;#8220;Kumbaya,&amp;amp;#8221; it&amp;amp;#8217;d be pretty dull. It&amp;amp;#8217;s interesting, because you and Elisabeth [Hasselbeck] are diametrically opposed in your points of view. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Only politically. I will tell you this about Elisabeth: This movie The Princess and the&amp;amp;#8230;Frog came out&amp;amp;#8230; KATIE COURIC: The Disney movie with an African American princess. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: &amp;amp;#8230;They gave us dolls. [Elisabeth] gave one to her daughter, and she would go everywhere with it. Elisabeth came in one day and said, &amp;amp;#8220;Something weird happened. We&amp;amp;#8217;re walking down the street, my daughter and I, and people are looking at her. I&amp;amp;#8217;m thinking, Why are they looking at her? Because she has a black doll!&amp;amp;#8221; I said, &amp;amp;#8220;Were you sure?&amp;amp;#8221; She said, &amp;amp;#8220;No, but my gut told me, and it really irritated me.&amp;amp;#8221; She was saying, &amp;amp;#8220;I get a piece of what you&amp;amp;#8217;ve talked about&amp;amp;#8221;&amp;amp;#8212;that no, you don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is. That was huge, because she didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have to tell me. KATIE COURIC: Do you think race relations have improved with the election of Barack Obama? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I thought they were. Then I started to hear the little asides pundits were making, and I thought, You know I can hear you, right?&amp;amp;#8230; It feels like you don&amp;amp;#8217;t like the fact that he&amp;amp;#8217;s there because he is black. And you won&amp;amp;#8217;t say it because you know it&amp;amp;#8217;s wrong. But that&amp;amp;#8217;s what it feels like. KATIE COURIC: I think the other side of it might be that true equality is when you can be critical and it&amp;amp;#8217;s not based on race. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yes, when we get it I think we&amp;amp;#8217;ll recognize it. KATIE COURIC: What have you learned that might be valuable for other people to hear? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You have to make a decision. Take all the advice you want, but at the end of the day, it&amp;amp;#8217;s your responsibility. KATIE COURIC: What about taking chances? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: If you can handle the repercussions. You want to be an individual; can you handle it? Because it&amp;amp;#8217;s lonesome. That means not running with the pack. The pack don&amp;amp;#8217;t want you when you&amp;amp;#8217;re an individual. Pack wants you to be the pack. The phrase &amp;amp;#8220;to thine own self be true&amp;amp;#8221;: It&amp;amp;#8217;s real. But it&amp;amp;#8217;s hard. KATIE COURIC: Now I have questions from Glamour readers. Tiffany from Houston asks, &amp;amp;#8220;What do you wish you knew in your twenties that you know now?&amp;amp;#8221; WHOOPI GOLDBERG: That I was going to be all right in my fifties. And that it was not that different from my twenties. KATIE COURIC: Melissa from Brooklyn asks, &amp;amp;#8220;When did you decide that you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t care about the Hollywood image and become comfortable with your style?&amp;amp;#8221; WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Day one. I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself. KATIE COURIC: That takes self-confidence. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I have a lot. KATIE COURIC: Finally, from Lynne in Atlanta, &amp;amp;#8220;Who would you want to play you in a movie about your life?&amp;amp;#8221; This is when you say, &amp;amp;#8220;Halle Berry, baby!&amp;amp;#8221; WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I&amp;amp;#8217;d love Gabby Sidibe [of the film Precious] to do it, because that&amp;amp;#8217;s a girl with a spirit. And in order to play Whoopi Goldberg, you&amp;amp;#8217;d have to have a spirit. KATIE COURIC: When in your career have you had the most fun? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Ninety-eight percent of the time. KATIE COURIC: Almost all the time? WHOOPI GOLDBERG: If I said it was daily, I&amp;amp;#8217;d be lying, but every three days, I kiss the hem of His or Her garment: Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let&amp;amp;#8217;s face it, it turns out I&amp;amp;#8217;m black. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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