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Oprah Gail Winfrey was born to unmarried parents. Her name in her birth certificate is Orpah, but due to her family's inability to pronounce her given name, they called her "Oprah" instead. She lived with her grandmother in rural poverty. She often wore potato sacks as dresses. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three, and regularly attended church. When she was six, she moved to Milwaukee to live with her mother, and she claims that she was sexually abused and her mother was not as encouraging and supportive as her grandmother had been.
Despite her less than encouraging home life, she skipped two grades, became teacher's pet and received a scholarship to Nicolet High School in Milwaukee. She ran away from home when she was 13, and unfortunately became pregnant at 14 , and even more unfortunately, her son died shortly after birth. Oprah miraculously soon got her life back on track after her frustrated mother sent her to live with her father Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee. She won Most Popular Girl, joined her high school speech team and won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pagent at age 17. Working in local media, she was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor at Nashville's WLAC-TV. She moved to Baltimore's WJZ-TV in 1976 to co-anchor the six o'clock news.
She went on to host the number one talk show in history, the Oprah Winfrey show. Not only that, she became number one on the Forbes list, and the richest person in entertainment. She has also starred in the Pulitzer-Prize winning movie, The Color Purple which was directed by Steven Spielberg. Oprah Winfrey also publishes two magazine, which are O, The Oprah Winfrey magazine and O At Home. She has also opened a school, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. Although there has been controversy at the school, with a member of the staff reportedly abusing the girls, Winfrey handled the scandal remarkably well, pulling no punches, revealing all the ugliness and promising to do a much better job of taking care of the girls.
Winfrey currently lives on “The Promised Land”, her 42-acre estate with ocean and mountain views in in Montecito, California.
Why we chose her
We chose Oprah Winfrey because she has proven that women can do anything, if not more, that men can do. She has shown that women are strong, capable of handling responsibilities and criticism thrown their way. Not only that, she has helped so many people around the world and inspired many others to be better people through her charity work, her school, her advice and her leadership. She has made many people see that you don't have to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth to achieve greatness. From a poverty stricken childhood, Oprah grew up to be one of the most influential women in the world. In conjunction with that, she has also shown people that we have to be strong in facing life's challenges. Even though Oprah grew in horrible circumstances, she still managed to become who she is today. Besides that, Oprah is also black, which shows the world there is no such thing as a race barrier or a rule that says only a certain race of people can be successful.
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