Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Her parents were named Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey and her mother was only 18 when she was born. When she was three Oprah lived on a farm Mississippi with her Grandmother Hattie Mae Lee. From a very young age Hattie instilled reading the bible into Oprah. Her ability to read early on and be well spoken in church shaped her early on for her future career. She moved through school quickly and skipped many grades. At age six she moved back to Milwaukee with her mother and half sister. Her mother worked as a maid and was rarely home to take care of her kids. her mothers neglect caused her to move to Nashville to be with her father and step mother who gave Oprah her own room for the first time. She moved back in with her mother before beginning fourth grade. She was smart and did well in school and then attended Lincoln High School but was transferred to Nicolet High School as one of the only African American students. When she was only nine she was first sexually abused by her nineteen year old cousin and didn't tell anyone. She was continually sexually abused by a family friends until she was fourteen when she discovered she was pregnant. She began acting out and running away until she was sent to live with her father in Nashville for the support and parenting. Seven months into her pregnancy she gave birth to a baby boy that died two weeks later. Oprah then got back on track and got into Tennessee State University. In 1985 she moved to Baltimore to talk on the radio show "People are Talking" which jump started her journalism career. She then moved to the morning television show "AM Chicago". When ranking grew so immensely it was renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show. The aired from 1986-2011 and has an estimated 42 million viewers each week in the United States. Oprah won 48 Daytime Emmy Awards through the seasons. And she was also nominate for an Oscar and Golden Globe for The Color Purple. Oprah began dating Stedman Graham in 1986 and arranged to marry him though a ceremony never happened. The couple never had any children but Oprah says she considers the girls at Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa to be her children. Oprah has donated to her own charities and those of others including The Angel Network, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, and The Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation.
This is Oprah at age 57. She is known to be inspiring to women and people are over the world because of her unique beauty. She values intelligence and education in women over looks and shows how you can succeed by proving yourself intellectually. She's also an icon to many African Americans especially the young black girls in her charity that live in Africa.
Oprah has been known to interview the most notorious and talked about people in the world. Her show has always been truthful and allows people to express themselves and their experiences so other people can learn from them and understand them.
She interviewed people such as
Barack and Michelle Obama, the Kardashians, Tyler Perry, Lindsay Lohan, Beyoncé, the little rock nine, and many others.