Wednesday's Oprah was all about losing weight in front of millions. Her guests included Valerie Bertinelli and Marie Osmond, who both lost around 50 pounds apiece on commercial weight loss programs. But the majority of the show focused on Star Jones, former co-host of The View.

Jones turned off a lot of viewers with her reticence on how she lost 160 pounds while on The View. But a couple years ago she came clean with the revelation that she had weight-loss surgery. She still hadn't really talked much about the process until she sat down with Oprah yesterday. And her conversation was riveting. I hadn't seen Jones speak so openly about her weight issues before. Gone is the brash caricature of "Star Jones," replaced with a more open and honest person. Even Oprah noticed the change in Jones.

"When you hear people say, oh, you took the easy way out, I would have longed for an easy way. It was not an easy way," Jones said on the show. "It was this -- the hardest struggle of my whole entire life and I still struggle."

If you didn't catch the show, find a friend who TiVoed it and watch it. You'll have a whole new appreciation for Star Jones. I know I did.