Oprah’s magazine cover features 2 LI women

Long Island has two new cover girls.

Jenny Hutt, of Roslyn, and Bobbi Allison, of Bethpage, are among nine women featured on the foldout cover of the April issue of O magazine alongside Oprah Winfrey.

They share their weight-loss stories in the magazine’s “best body” issue, released Tuesday.

The women, all fans of the magazine, were chosen near the end of January and whisked off to a downtown Manhattan studio for a photo shoot. Their hair was styled, eyebrows plucked and nails polished before they were fitted for dresses. At the time, none knew they were going to be on the cover, Hutt, 46, said.

It wasn’t until the second day of the photo shoot, when they were visited on set by Winfrey, that the women were told they would be the magazine’s newest cover girls.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Hutt said. “People were crying and hugging. It was really the most exciting and overwhelming experience.”

Since the monthly magazine’s inception in 2000, Winfrey has appeared on the front of every issue and has shared the cover with six other people — first lady Michelle Obama, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Kimmel, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Rosie O’Donnell and her personal trainer, Bob Greene.

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“Oprah is a big believer in sharing life’s struggles and triumphs, which is why she liked the idea of having readers on the cover with her who are facing some challenges of their own,” Lucy Kaylin, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, said of the former television talk-show host, who talks about her own weight loss in the issue. “These women were chosen not only because they all want to lose some weight, but also because they have a rich story to tell about the journey they are on.”

Winfrey is a shareholder in Weight Watchers and is a spokeswoman for the company.

Hutt, a call-in talk-show host on SiriusXM satellite radio, said she’s always had trouble with her weight, describing herself as a “short, chubby kid,” whose insecurity over her appearance followed her into adulthood.

She was at her heaviest in 2008. After having two children and losing her mother, she weighed more than 200 pounds. When she learned she had high blood pressure, she decided to shed the weight and lost about 80 pounds.

Today she’s at 133 pounds, but still struggles with body image issues.

“My goal is to be free of this body stuff,” she said. “If my clothes fit and I’m healthy, everything should be OK.”

For Allison, a psychic medium, food was a “numbing agent,” she said, which helped her get past the sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

She had always been overweight, she said, but when she became pregnant with her daughter at 16 she quickly put on 100 pounds. Several years later, she shed about 70 pounds using the Atkins diet, but rapidly gained it back.

“I wanted to take a stand in 2016,” she said.

In November, Allison, 49, underwent a sleeve gastrectomy, a surgical procedure that reduces the stomach to about 25 percent of its original size.

Since the procedure, she says she’s lost 65 pounds, but almost didn’t agree to appear in the magazine.

“It takes a lot to expose yourself like that, but I really hope I can inspire at least one person to take control and change their life,” she said.