Will someone please tell Oprah Winfrey she is pretty no matter how much she weighs and that she should stop beating herself up for gaining those extra pounds?

Media guru Oprah Winfrey has always been frank about her battle with weight, sharing with the public the joy of shedding pounds, the agony of gaining them again, her tricks to stay slim and her empathy for all women suffering the same torture.

In the January issue of her own “O” magazine, Oprah reiterates the bittersweet subject of weight loss. Make that gain. The talk show queen reveals she has now reached 200 pounds and is “mad” at herself because she has “fallen off the wagon.”

Writing that she feels “embarrassed,” Oprah comments she cannot believe she is still talking about her weight after “all these years” and all she has learned about controlling her size and shape. “I look at my thinner self and think, ‘How did I let this happen again?’” she confesses.

The 54-year-old media mogul goes on to write about her recent problems with an unstable thyroid and how she has become afraid to work out because of this. She has thus gained 40 pounds in two years, reaching “the dreaded 2-0-0.”

The January issue of “O” magazine reaches newsstands Tuesday and also launches Best Life Week on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” starting January 5. Oprah is sure to tell viewers how choosing a gown for Barack Obama’s inauguration in January made her realize she had lost track of pounds piling on one after another, even after having had a bit of a shock last April.

She writes in her magazine that it was last spring when she felt so disenchanted with her fuller figure that she wanted to skip out on a Las Vegas show taping with music icons Cher and Tina Turner, because she “felt like a fat cow” and wanted to “disappear.”

One of the talk show queen’s most triumphant moments in her battle with weight came in 1988, when she waltzed out on the set of her show comfortably squeezed into a size 10 Calvin Klein pair of jeans. She wheeled behind her a wagon loaded with fat – a symbol of the 67 pounds she had shed.

Years later, in 2005, she revealed she had starved herself for four months, on a liquid-protein diet, to reach that enviably slim silhouette. Within hours of the show, she was celebrating her success by eating. “Of course, within two days those jeans no longer fit!” she grimly commented.

Oprah has learned something from her rollercoaster adventure with weight-gain-and-loss though. She says she no longer wishes to be thin but wants to be healthy and fit.