
At times, Barbara Walters seemed hyper-focused on asking questions about people's appearances. During her 1977 interview with Elizabeth Taylor, it certainly seemed that way. When John Warner, Taylor's husband at the time, insinuated that Taylor didn't eat healthily, Walters asked, "You wouldn't care if you got fat?"
Taylor's response was, "I am fat," to which Barbara Walters retorted, "I didn't want to say it," and repeated the question: "You don't care?" Taylor sighed and said, "Not really." Several years later, she opened up about that time in her life when she was married to senator Warner and even wrote a book about her experience with gaining weight and dieting, called "Elizabeth Takes Off." Per The New York Times, she wrote in her book, ”I was almost 50 when for the first time in my life I lost my sense of self-worth."
Even though in the 1977 interview, she claimed to be happy, 10 years later in another interview with Walters, she admitted that all the talk about her weight during that time was hard. "I hated it and I hated all the fat jokes," she told Walters. "I probably laughed as loud or louder than anyone, but they hurt. They hurt me a lot."
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