Whoopi Goldberg and ‘The View’ address Kelly Clarkson’s weight loss backlash: ‘Nobody wants to be fat’

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a weight loss drug. Goldberg, 68, said on Wednesday’s episode of “The View” that while she “had a great time” on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” earlier in the week, she was disappointed over the negative online response to Clarkson, 42.“Kelly is getting backlash over this from people who say she previously claimed she was losing weight by walking,” Goldberg said. “But here’s a point about that.

A lot of people are taking the show because they need it. There’s lots of reasons.”The EGOT winner continued: “She has been walking, but this has helped.

They kick her behind when she’s bigger, they kick her behind when she’s lost the weight, and now they’re kicking her behind because she said it out loud.

Maybe she was more comfortable hearing somebody say that’s what I did.”Sara Haines, 46, said she has “no shade” for Clarkson but thinks celebrities need to be open about whether or not they’re taking prescription medication to lose weight.Joy Behar, 81, jumped in to declare that “diets do not work.”“I’ve been on diets up and down, up and down.