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Anna Wintour once staged an intervention to encourage Andre Leon Talley to lose weight.

The 70-year-old fashion journalist, who served as the editor-at-large at U.S. Vogue magazine from 1998 until 2013, has revealed it was Wintour who prompted him to kick his bad eating habits during his 40s when he realised he had a problem with food.

"I began to realise I had a problem. I had never exercised," he told People magazine, adding that Wintour, the editor-in-chief of U.S. Vogue, had noticed his weight gain and called him into her office.

"You need to start working out," Wintour told him, and he lost weight and could finally "wear my beautiful suits."

However, in 2004, he gained weight again and Wintour responded by staging an intervention in the Vogue conference dining room, where Talley was told to shift the pounds.

While he took a year to agree to their suggestion, he eventually spent several weeks at the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center in North Carolina.

"I emailed Anna every day about my weight loss," he shared. "I had not been successful at dieting. But I did it. I lost 55lbs. But I did not follow the rules."

The fashion journalist would return to the centre twice more, after he gained weight following unsuccessful gastric band surgery, with him confessing, "It's the same with alcohol, I'd often say 'I've fallen off the wagon,' when I'd go back to Duke."

Talley, who is known for wearing opulent kaftans, still struggles with his relationship with food every day.

"I cannot control this addiction... I am obese," he admitted. "I am just a sinner when it comes to food. Yes, it's an addiction. Overeating is an addiction: When you don't realise that the calories that go in have to go out... I am a victim of my food. It is a behavioural problem. I've always associated food with love."

Talley is promoting his memoir, The Chiffon Trenches, which is to be released on 19 May.

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