‘The Color Purple’ actress, 68, piled on the pounds when she started filming the movie ‘Till’ in September 2021 while she was on steroids. She said: “I just always felt like me, and then I saw me (in 2021), and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s a lot of me.’” Whoopi added her weight has “gone and come” and ‘gone and up and down” over the years, but never previously prioritised keeping trim.